Professor Michael Charles Breadmore from the University of Tasmania, as the winner of the Visiting Scientist of the CAS President’s International Fellowship Initiative (PIFI), visited Yantai Coastal Zone Institute to carry out academic cooperation with the research group of Chinese collaborator Professor Lingxin Chen.
During the visit, at April 8, Professor Breadmore delivered an academic report titled "3D printing fluidic devices" The report introduced his innovative research achievements in making low cost, highly complex microfluidic devices using the newly emerging technology of 3D printing. Professor Breadmore describes the potential advantages of 3D printing for making microfluidic devices, and then discussed the challenges in 3D printing these devices with different 3D printers. He elaborated on the advantages of low cost 3D printers based on stereolithography and fused deposition modelling, as well as more expensive printers based on polyjet printing. He demonstrated considerable improvements in speeds, making a microfluidic device in as little as 2 min, as well as rapid prototype different designs to measure nutrients in soil. The participating teachers and students engaged in enthusiastic discussions and exchanges with Professor Breadmore. This academic exchange will further broaden our research ideas in how to make microfluidic devices and to exploit the opportunities of 3D fluid transport to make new technology for measuring things.
Professor Michael Charles Breadmore obtained his Ph.D. in Analytical Chemistry from the University of Tasmania, Australia, in 2001. He then conducted postdoctoral research at the University of Virginia, USA, and the University of Bern, Switzerland. In 2004, he joined the Department of Chemistry at the University of Tasmania and received tenure in 2008. Professor Breadmore has long been dedicated to the field of lab-on-a-chip technology and miniaturized analytical devices. He has published over 283 SCI papers in international mainstream journals such as Analytical Chemistry, Angewandte Chemie International Edition, Electrophoresis, and Lab on a Chip, with more than 9,300 citations. Many of his patented achievements have been commercially transformed. Professor Breadmore serves as an editorial board member or editor for more than ten journals, was the deputy editor of the Australian Journal of Chemistry, editor of Journal of Chromatography A and is currently an editor for Analytica Chimica Acta. He is a member of the organizing committees of several renowned international conferences (such as µTAS, APCE, HPLC). In 2022, he was elected to the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering, and from 2019 to 2021, he was consecutively listed among the "Top 100 Influential Analytical Scientists" globally.
Professor Breadmore for reporting
Group photo from some participants
