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nanoEPics

Scientific Impact with Open-Source Hardware

Theses

We regularly define projects at the bachelor and master level. Please take a look at the previously accomplished projects, below, to get a view of the level we expect from our student members.

Some examples of currently possible projects are:

  • Measuring electrostatic charge with optical tweezers, Arthur Ashkin and Robert Millikan united.
  • Surface charge dynamics measured by optical dark-field microscopy
  • High speed recording of the droplet beating heart in an acoustic trap
  • Induced-charge electro-osmotic robotic arm for moving nanoparticles

If you are interested in choosing a project with us, please contact Sanli (S.Faez {at} UU {dot} NL).

Accomplished by the nanoEPics team

Master projects

  • Potentiodynamic Optical Contrast, Kevin Namink

  • Measuring Size and Electrophoretic Mobility of Sub 100 nm Particles by Single Particle Tracking, Peter Speets

  • Developing fluorescence microscopy setup to study microscopic solute transport in saturated and unsaturated porous media using microfluidics, Qianjing Tang (joint-project with the Faculty of Geosciences) UU Repo

Bachelor projects

  • Optimizing nano-oscillators, Elise Alkemade UU Repo
  • Redox Flow Battery: An Open-Source and Accessible Energy Storage Solution, Catherine Doherty
  • Clogging of Colloidal Particles in a Microchannel using an Electro-Osmotic Micropump, Thijs Karman UU Repo
  • Numerical modelling of an electro-actuated nanospring, Erik Mollers
  • Nanosprings and the Electric Double Layer, Janice van Dam UU Repo
  • Finding the Viscosity of Liquid Droplets using the Acoustic Levitator, Stijn Helsloot
  • Measurements on electrical properties of water while acoustically levitated, Allard Veenstra
  • Crystallizing ultrasonically levitated colloidal droplets, Milo Collaris UU Repo
  • Relation between surface charge and the flow rate within microfluidic channels, Lorenzo Sierra Perez UU Repo
  • Measuring Absolute Scattering Cross-sections of nanoparticles and single molecules, Zeyu Kuang (winner best presentation 2017) UU Repo
  • Feedback control: theoretical and experimental research using a keysight DAQ, Tom Niessen UU Repo
  • Wavefront-shaping demonstration setup, Suzan Marsman, (winner best presentation 2016) UU Repo
  • Do-It-Yourself microscope, Kevin Namink UU Repo