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RESULT

Líneas de investigación

Las principales líneas en desarrollo son:

  • Desarrollo de plataformas lab-on-chip para separación celular y de elementos biomarca- dores en muestras de sangre y otros fluidos biológicos.
  • Aplicación de ultrasonidos de baja intensidad en tumores y phantoms de tumor y estroma para su cacterización y tratamiento en procesos cancerígenos.
Nuestras plataformas lab-on-chip para la manipulación de partículas

SU-8 layer containig the channel over a substrate to perform the mass transfer and, with it, the particle or cell separation.

Particle collection at the center of the channel at 500KHz : ICU’07 Vienna, Biotech 2006

Applications of Ultrasounds for particle manipulation

Acoustic Agglomeration in Aerosols

Particles interact under acoustic waves giving rise to acoustic agglomeration at certain hydrodynamic-acoustic conditions.

Mechanisms governing the particle interactions induced by Ultrasounds can be analyzed observing the particles during the application of the acoustic field. The particle trajectories can be reconstructed from their bright traces filmed during their approaching processes subjected to horizontal standing waves:

Numerical prediction of two attraction processes developed at f=3kHz
between a pair of 4um glass particles
a) aligned with the acoustic axis, b) from q=20º with respect to it

I. Gonzalez et al. J. Aerosol Sci. Vol. 31, No. 12, pp. 1461-1468 (2000)

A whole attraction process between two particles
during the application of an acoustic standing plane wave
during their settling-down process

Sinusoidal lateral displacements of the particles during their attraction process before their collision

I. González et al. / Aerosol Science 34 (2003) 1611–1631
Acoustophoresis in polymeric chips ►
RESULT

Head Researchers

  • González Gómez, Iciar

Personnel recruited

  • Candil Sánchez, Manuel
  • De los Reyes López, Elena

Trainees

  • Pérez Sirvent, María Elisa
  • Rincón Laguarta, Jesús
  • Salehi Jiménez, Nadia

 

External collaborators

Lance Munn
Deputy Director, Steele Labs
University of Harvard, Harvard Medical School HMS
Massachusetts. USA

Jon Luzuriaga González
PhD Senior Researcher & professor at Facultad de Medicina y Enfermería
Universidad del País Vasco UP-EHU

Julie Earl
PhD Senior Researcher at Hospital Universitario Ramón y Cajal

Carlos Alter Negreira
Jefe Departamento de Física experimental y materiales
Facultad de Ciencias, Instituto de Física. Universidad de la República de Uruguay

Abelino Vargas Jiménez
Física experimental, Universidad de La Salle

Carolina Diana Ochoa Cabezas
Grupo de Biofísica y Biología de Membranas, Universidad Nacional de Colombia.

Jose Luis Blanco Murillo
Jefe del Departamento de  Señales, Sistemas y radiocomunicaciones, ETS de Telecomunicación
Universidad Politécnica de Madrid UPM

Virginia Yagüe Jiménez
Departamento de Señales, Sistemas y radiocomunicaciones,  ETS de Telecomunicación
Universidad Politécnica de Madrid UPM

 


Research lines


Research Projects


Publications

Acoustics and Non Destructive Evaluation (DAEND)
  • Environmental Acoustics (GAA)
  • G Carma: Materials Characterization by Non Destructive Evaluation
  • ULAB, Ultrasounds for Liquid Analysis and Bioengineering
Information and Communication Technologies (TIC)
  • Cybersecurity and Privacy Protection Research Group (GiCP)
  • Research group on Cryptology and Information Security (GiCSI)
    • Quantum Communications Laboratory (LCQE)
  • Multichannel Ultrasonic Signal Processing Group (MUSP)
Sensors and Ultrasonic Systems (DSSU)
  • Ultrasonic Systems and Technologies (USTG)
  • Nanosensors and Smart Systems (NoySi)
  • Ultrasonic Resonators for cavitation and micromanipulation (RESULT)
  • Advanced Sensor Technology (SENSAVAN)
  • Quantum Electronics (QE)
Laboratorios
  • Laboratorio de Acústica
  • Laboratorio de Metrología Ultrasónica Médica (LMUM)
  • Laboratorio de Comunicaciones Cuánticas
  • Laboratory for International Collaboration in Advanced Biophotonics Imaging

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