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Chinese Wisdom:
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Under heaven, nothing is more soft and yielding than water, yet, for attacking the solid and the strong, nothing is better, it has no equal.
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Biofluidics Lab, 328 Duffield Hall Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853
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We are currently pursuing the following broad research directions:

Previous projects:

1. Defect Motion in a 2-D Crystal Structure

2. Pearling instability in a viscous jet

3. Thermally Induced Fluctuations below the Onset of Rayleigh- Benard Convection

4. Vortex Breakdown in a Swirling Water Jet

5. Phase Dynamics in a Taylor-Couette System

6. Path instabilities of air bubbles rising in clean water

Quantitative imaging

Hardware and software tools to collect and analyze position data on motion of particles in 3D.

BioMEMS

Our development of a microfluidic gradient generator and systems that can be studied with its help.

Biomachineries

We explore some of the wonderful machineries in nature that operate at micro and nano length scales.

Microfluidic microvascular modeling

We attempt to duplicate microvascular structure and cellular behavior in a microfluidic model, a model with relevance to angiogenesis and metastasis.

Previous projects: 1. Defect Motion in a 2-D Crystal Structure