Prof. Michele Maggini

Professor Maggini will give the 3^rd Liebig-College seminar and lectures on 

"Microfluidics: a light touch to nanosystems chemistry"

Abstract:

Flow chemistry is a rational approach to chemical processing, where reactions are carried out in a continuously flowing stream of reagents and solvents. The advantages of flow chemistry over conventional batch processing have been widely recognized in industry. However, reactions under continuous flow conditions have only recently found a way into academic laboratories, where relatively small scale syntheses are carried out. This has been prompted by the development of microfluidic techniques, that allow the handling of liquids in confined geometries with unprecedented accuracy, usually within channels of sub-millimeter lateral dimensions. For a chemist, microfluidics represents ideality in many ways: this presentation will review the enabling potential of microfluidics in chemistry and materials science, moving gradually from molecular systems to nanostructured materials while considering novel approaches to chemical transformations.