Microfluidics & Microswimmers Lab 

Welcome to the Microfluidics and Microswimmers Lab @ IISc

We are a research group working on Microfluidics and Microswimmers in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru. Our research activity revolves around understanding the transport and locomotion of micron-sized particles (colloids, droplets and organisms) suspended in complex fluidic environments. These tiny particles can be passive or active/motile depending on the physicochemical interaction between the particle surface and the suspending fluid. Often, these particles encounter complex environments such as non-Newtonian suspending media, external flow/field, crowded and heterogeneous flow geometry, etc. We use mathematical modelling and microfluidic experiments to understand the low-Reynolds-number hydrodynamics of these systems. 

Research Themes

Currently, we are working on the following topics:

• Particle Microfluidics: Particles in non-Newtonian fluids

• Droplet Microfluidics: Active droplets

• Biomicrofluidics: Swimming/locomotion of motile cells 

• Computational Microfluidics: MPCD, LBM