The flutter of a butterfly's wing can cause a typhoon halfway around the world.
- chaos theory

01/01/12 LOAM enters into partnership with Center for Nano Micro Mechanics, China do develop small scale instrumentation capabilities. more

24/12/11 Article co-authored by Fenfen shows superhydrophobic surfaces feasible for preconcentration and cryopreservation. more

24/12/11 Article co-authored by Fenfen shows superhydrophobic surfaces feasible for preconcentration and cryopreservation. more

24/12/11 Article co-authored by Murat and Wesley demonstate a way to move particles optically without photodamage. more

23/12/11 Article co-authored by Brandon and Vu show the viability of making microplates from transparencies. more

15/11/11 Article co-authored by Yohannes show dynamic force signatures of droplets on superhydrophobic surfaces. more

30/10/11 Article co-authored by Jonathan and William show the discrete transfer of liquid between capillaries using liquid bridges. more

22/10/11 Article co-authored by Adrian Chua demonstrate a better strategy to phase retrieve from videos. more

27/08/11 Generic software coding by Willem and Tim (Wesley College) makes it easy to develop instrumentation applications. more

23/08/11 Article co-authored by Willem, Jonathan, and Brandon show the possibility of pulling discrete volumes from capillaries more

23/08/11 Article co-authored by Brandon demonstrates feasibility of measuring wettability in capillaries that are lighted up more

13/07/11 Article co-authored by Fenfen and William shows the ability of generating electrical circuits by capillary action more

25/05/11Article on surface plasmons among top 10 most downloaded articles for the Journal of the Optical Society of America B in April 2011. see

1/05/11 Article co-authored by Fenfen and Jonathan pushes the envelop of capillary wells microplate by showing that "Droplet exposure in air allows pre-concentraion by evaporation". more

15/03/11 Article co-authored by James Whitehill demonstrates spreading and retraction ability of a droplet subjected to vibration.

21/02/11 Article co-authored by William and Gabriel shows the ability of bubble to exist on superhydrophobic surface with larger diameter than predicted. more

1/2/10 Students from Waverley Christian College and MacRobertson Girls' High School complete Awareness Program at LOAM. more

14/01/11 Article co-authored by Murat and Ian demonstrates the prospect on complete optical manipulation on a chip by harnessing strong laser beaming from subwavelength aperture . more

21/12/10 Article co-authored by Ian and Murat simulates sorting of rods using asymetric potentials. more

12/12/10 Jonathan completes two week research exchange in Beijing, China more

10/11/10 Article co-authored by Jonathan reports the strange behavior of particles travelling upstream to the source of a rivulet. more

10/11/10 Article co-authored by Gabriel (FYP student) and Han (former PhD student) uncovers that droplet dispensed into standard microplate wells will not automatically fill their bottom, but will be governed by wetting characteristics and droplet placement. more

10/11/10 Article co-authored by William shows droplets sliding more easily on an incline laden with bubbles using two possible mechanisms. more

10/11/10 Article co-authored by Jonathan demonstrates that pushing reagents in and out of capillary accomplishes mixing for microplates. more

22/9/10 Article co-authored by Han (former PhD student) and Brandon shows fluorescence and absorbance measurements with bubble and pippeting error sensing possible in capillary wells microplate. more

12/10/10 Article co-authored by Ariba (FYP student) shows the possibility of cell collection from laser pressure catapulting in a fluidic chamber builit with slides and coverslips. more

9/10/10 Article co-authored by Yohannes and William demonstrates that the use of simple foil in the dangling mode enables sensitive measurement via an optical lever approach. more

24/9/10 Article co-authored by Lu Yu (former Ms student) and Basanta (former postdoc) finds carbon nanofiber rods tether at one end to surface to produce strange dance that infers coupling of translational and rotational Brownian diffusions. more

22/9/10 Article co-authored by William demonstrates the intriguing capability of a bubble to pin a droplet on an incline; serving almost like a brake. more

11/9/10 Han Yen has been awarded PhD degree.

23/8/10 Article with contributions from Matt Powers (former FYP student) reports mixing method that isolates at specific locations and minimizes image blurring. more

8/8/10 LOAM hosts 4 students from China, in cultural exchange program to promote Monash-SJTU 2+2 program. more

1/8/10 LOAMFEST 2010 held to coincide with Monash University Open Day was an overwhelming success. more

1/7/10 Lu Yu has been awarded Masters in Engineering Science degree (Research).

15/6/10 Article co-authored by Fenfen finds that the hydrophobicity of micro particles have a strong influence on how they self-assemble from an evaporating droplet. more

26/5/10 Article co-authored by Yohannes and Mike Robinson reveals that the quadrant photodiode popularly used for sensing is controlled by light intensity due to the electronic circuitry commonly applied. more

10/5/10 Article co-authored by Han reports a way to detect bubbles and erroneous pipetting with capillary wells microplates during actual assay runs. more

29/4/10 Han wins the Monash Postgraduate Publications Award, Round 1/2010.

11/3/10 Article co-authored by Wu Chu (FYP student) reports methods to retrieve the phase and amplitude from recordings overlaid by periodic background. more

29/1/10 Article co-authored by Han uncovers that brightness and recording gain can be controlled to improve flatbed scanner densitometry. more

8/1/10 Three Year 12 students from MacRobertson Girls' High School complete Awareness Program at LOAM. more

6/1/10 Article co-authored by James Whitehill and Mark Stokes (FYP student) finds intriguing particle patterns in a vibrated drop. more

18/12/09 A paper co-authored by Brandon Cheong (FYP student) and Fenfen demonstrates an easy method to create fluidics with cover slips and slides. more

15/12/09 Tuck has been given the Valued Reviewer Award 2009 by Sensors and Actuators A.

19/11/09 A paper co-authored by Tim Woods (former FYP student) reports strategy to sort nanospheres with Brownian forces and photophoresis. more

8/11/09 Four students, Jue Nee Tan, Arriba Siddiqi, Gabriel Lu & Samuel Ng will commence undergraduate vacation scholarship work at LOAM in November 2009.

29/10/09 A paper co-authored by Han shows standard microplates more susceptible to point spread function limitation but not capillary wells microplate. more

28/10/09 Tuck and Yang Yu (Beijing Institute of Technology) have been awarded Monash FOESGS funding for project entitled "Liquid retention and wetting in microplate instrumentation for high throughput screening".

12/10/09 A paper co-authored by Lin & Fenfen entitled "Continuous particle assembly in a capillary cell" has been accepted for publication in Applied Physics Letters. more

28/09/09 A paper co-authored by Frank Peng (FYP student) entitled "Minimalist and convenient mode changing off-axis digital holography" has been accepted for publication in Optics Communications. more

Major Research Thrusts

We seek to develop better methods, assays, and procedures that enable analysis of substances found in living organisms and the chemical reactions underlying life processes.

Our quest to find novel methods to move particles and cells around to accomplish important functions.

The natural outcome of experimentation where we produce more advanced sensors, actuators, processors, and software.