Publications

Our published research will be available here:

• 2024: Bihi, I., Gelin, P., Frankel, I., & De Malsche, W. A numerical study of the effects of lateral flow and retention in open tubular vortex chromatography. Journal of Chromatography A, 1736, 465370. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chroma.2024.465370
• 2024:Mehdi Feizpour, Liu, Q., Van der Donck, T., Thienpont, H., Meulebroeck, W., & Ottevaere, H. (2024). "Characterizing planar SERS substrates: Unraveling the link between physical characteristics and performance metrics", Journal of Physics Photonics. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1088/2515-7647/ad2528.
• 2023: Abbasi, S., Feizpour, M., Weets, I., Liu, Q., Thienpont, H., Ferranti, F., & Ottevaere, H. Classification of hemoglobin fractions in the liquid state using Raman spectroscopy combined with machine learning. Microchemical Journal, 194, 109305. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.microc.2023.109305

Workshops:

• 2024/09/03: "Advanced Microfabrication Techniques for Microfluidic Devices" Gooik, BELGIUM

Conferences:

• Heidi Ottevaere (BPHOT) presented "Benchmarking five commercial SERS substrates for hemoglobin identification" at the 29th Microoptics Conference (MOC2024), held at National Sun Yat-sen University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, from September 29 to October 2, 2024.
• Daniel Borstner (JOR) presented a poster on ‘High aspect ratio structures in microfluidic channels by UV-nanoimprint lithography’ for MNE 2024, September 16-19, Montpellier, France.
• E. Stai (NCSRD) presented a poster on ‘Computational analysis of the anisotropy of SEM images to quantify nanowire verticality and surface roughness’ in Copenhagen, Denmark, European Microscopy Congress 2024, 25-30 August 2024.
• Sara Abbasi (BPHOT) presented on ‘'The Potential of Raman Spectroscopy for Accurate Identification of Hemoglobin Variants in Diabetes Diagnostics’ at the XXVIII International Conference on Raman Spectroscopy (ICORS), August 2024 in Rome, Italy.
• Sara Abbasi (Bphot) presented at BePOM, which was hosted by VUB, September 19-20, 2024, on ‘Rapid and Accurate Differentiation of Sickle-cell Disease from Normal Hemoglobin using Surface Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy’.
• Anja Haase (JOR) presented a poster on ‘High Aspect Ratio Structures in Microfluidic Channels by UV-Nanoimprint Lithography ’at the NNT (2024) NIL Industrial Day, June 24-27, 2024, Lund, Sweden.
• Mehdi Feizpour (Bphot) presented at SPIE on ‘Analyzing SERS reproducibility and performance: the role of illumination area’.
• Qing Liu (Bphot) presented on ‘FDTD modeling of 2PP-fabricated SERS substrates: design, simulation and hotspot analysis’ at the same conference.
• Sara Abbasi (Bphot) presented at SPIE on ‘Advancing hemoglobinopathy screening with Raman spectroscopy and machine learning’. She was awarded the 'Best Student Paper' at SPIE!
• Mehdi Feizpour (Bphot) presented at SPIE Photonics Europe, Strasbourg, April 7-11, 2024. ‘Automatic optimization of spectral classifiers hyperparameters for pathogen identification through evolutionary techniques’.
• Dr. Athina Kastania (NCSRD) gave a presentation about ‘Plasma nanotexturing on horizontal and inclined polymeric surfaces: experiments, characterization and modelling’ at 10th International Conference on Micro-Nanoelectronics, Micro-Nanosciences & Nanotechnologies (Micro Nano 2023) which took place in Athens, Greece, 2-5 November 2023.
• Dr. Vasilios Constantoudis (NCSRD) gave a presentation about ‘SEM-based computational nanometrology: The case of measuring the thickness of deposited films on rough substrates from top-down SEM images’ at 10th International Conference on Micro-Nanoelectronics, Micro-Nanosciences & Nanotechnologies (Micro Nano 2023) which took place in Athens, Greece, 2-5 November 2023.
• Elena Stai (NCSRD) presented a poster on ‘Computational analysis of the anisotropy of SEM images to quantify nanowire verticality and roughness of inclined surfaces after plasma etching’ at 10th International Conference on Micro-Nanoelectronics, Micro-
  Nanosciences & Nanotechnologies (Micro Nano 2023) which took place in Athens, Greece, 2-5 November 2023.
• NCSRD team presented on ‘Plasma etching and roughening of inclined objects, macroscopic surfaces and microfluidic channels: experiments and modelling’ at MNE 2023, Berlin, September 24-28, 2023.
• Panagiotis Skaltsounis (NCSRD) presented on ‘Cavity-based inertial microfluidic device for the separation of rare cells with different size: a computational study’ at Micro & Nano
  Flows Conference, Padova, Italy, on September 18-20, 2023.
• VUB/BPHOT presented on ‘SERS biosensing of sickle cell hemoglobin from normal hemoglobin’ at SPIE Optics + Photonics, August 20-24, 2023, San Diego, California, United States.
• NCSRD gave a presentation about ‘Plasma-induced nanotexturing on horizontal and inclined polymeric surfaces’ at PESM Conference (Plasma etch and strip in microtechnology), which took place in Grenoble, France, June 19-20, 2023.
• Daniel Borstner (JOR) presented on ‘High aspect ratio structures in microfluidic channels by UVnanoimprint lithography‘ at Point-of-Care, Biosensors & Mobile Diagnostics Europe, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, June 19-20, 2023.
• Dr. Ilyesse Bihi (μFlow) presented ‘Exploiting wall taper to induce vortices and reduce dispersion in plastic liquid chromatography columns’ at HPLC 2023 in Düsseldorf, Germany, June 18-22.
• Prof. Wim De Malsche presented ‘Reduction of C-term Dispersion in AC EOF Vortex Chromatography’ at HPLC 2022 in San Diego, USA, on June 18-23.
• Ir. Filip Legein presented the project during a meeting of R2R NET on May 11, 2022 at Europlasma in Oudenaarde, Belgium.

Visits, exhibitions, booths

• Prof. Wim De Malsche and ir. Filip Legein of VUB/μFlow visited Knowledge for Growth in Antwerp, Belgium, from May 15-16, 2024, to meet with the biotech community.
• Prof. Wim De Malsche and ir. Filip Legein of VUB/μFlow visited Knowledge for Growth in Antwerp, Belgium, from May 30 to June 1, 2023, to meet with the biotech community.
• Prof. Ilse Weets visited EuroMedLab in Rome on May 21-25, 2023 to interact with suppliers of diabetes monitoring devices.
• Dr. Barbara Stadlober and Dr. Gerburg Schider exhibited at NILindustrialday, the leading conference for nanoimprint lithography and its applications, in Vienna, April 16-17, 2023. The VortexLC project was presented at the JOR booth with a poster and leaflets.
• Dr. Barbara Stadlober, Dr. Gerburg Schider, and Prof. Evangelos Gogolides visited, interacted with peers and industry, and made presentations about VortexLC at Micro and Nano Engineering (MNE), Leuven, September 19-23, 2022. JOR presented VortexLC with a roll-up poster at the booth they hosted in the exhibition.
• Prof. Heidi Ottevaere referred to the project in her invited talk ‘Biosensing: measuring the devil inside!’ at the World General Congress for Optics and Photonics of the International Commission
  for Optics (ICO) and the International Society on Optics Within Life Sciences (OWLS), Optical Sensing, September 5-9, 2022.
• ir. Filip Legein of VUB/μFlow visited Knowledge for Growth in Ghent, Belgium, on May 18-19, 2022, to meet with the biotech community.
• Prof. Wim De Malsche of VUB/μFlow and Prof. Heidi Ottevaere of VUB/BPHOT were actively involved in the organization of MSB 2022 on July 3-6 in Liège, Belgium, where they had multiple interactions with academic and industrial peers.
• Prof. Wim De Malsche and ir. Filip Legein of VUB/μFlow visited HPLC 2022 in San Diego, USA, on June 18-23 and had the opportunity to present and meet with key players such as Thermo Fisher Scientific and Waters.
• The research objectives of VortexLC were presented in a Z-innovation broadcast of Belgian business channel Kanaal Z about the microfluidics activities of VUB μFlow in June 2022, and the broadcast was put online with Youtube (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_MZeJnzgp4).