Farzan Akbaridoust

Are surgical masks manufactured from sterilisation wrap safe?

Sam E Grigg, Andrea Zampiron, Farzan Akbaridoust, Dileep Chandran, Natasha E Holmes, Paul DR Johnson, Ivan Marusic, Daryl Jones

Journal article  |  2021  |  INFECTION DISEASE & HEALTH

BACKGROUND: Due to regional shortages some health services have proposed using surgical masks manufactured from sterilisation wrap..

Experimental fluid dynamics characterization of a novel micropump-mixer

F Akbaridoust, CM de Silva, C Szydzik, A Mitchell, I Marusic, WS Nesbitt

Journal article  |  2020  |  Biomicrofluidics

The application of lab-on-a-chip systems to biomedical engineering and medical biology is rapidly growing. Reciprocating micropump..

Paper-Based Acoustofluidics for Separating Particles and Cells

Jason Zhou, Ruhollah Habibi, Farzan Akbaridoust, Adrian Neild, Reza Nosrati

Journal article  |  2020  |  Analytical Chemistry

Paper is emerging as a versatile platform for automated fluid handling with a broad range of applications in medical diagnostics a..

Active Micropump-Mixer for Rapid Antiplatelet Drug Screening in Whole Blood

Crispin Szydzik, Rose J Brazilek, Farzan Akbaridoust, Charitha de Silva, Mitchell Moon, Ivan Marusic, Andrew SH Ooi, Harshal H Nandurkar, Justin R Hamilton, Arnan Mitchell, Warwick S Nesbitt

Journal article  |  2019  |  Analytical Chemistry

There is a need for scalable automated lab-on-chip systems incorporating precise hemodynamic control that can be applied to high-c..

Towards An Active Micropump-mixer for Rapid Anti-platelet Drug Screening in Whole Blood

Crispin Szydzik, Rose J Brazilek, Farzan Akbaridoust, Charitha de Silva, Mitchell Moon, Ivan Marusic, Harshal H Nandurkar, Justin R Hamilton, Arnan Mitchell, Warwick S Nesbitt

Conference Proceedings  |  2019  |  SPIE MICRO + NANO MATERIALS, DEVICES, AND APPLICATIONS 2019

This work reports on development and characterization of an on-chip microfluidic handling system for application in preclinical an..

Simultaneous micro-PIV measurements and real-time control trapping in a cross-slot channel

Farzan Akbaridoust, Jimmy Philip, David RA Hill, Ivan Marusic

Journal article  |  2018  |  Experiments in Fluids

Here we report novel micro-PIV measurements around micron-sized objects that are trapped at the centre of a stagnation point flow ..

Elastomeric microvalve geometry affects haemocompatibility

Crispin Szydzik, Rose J Brazilek, Khashayar Khoshmanesh, Farzan Akbaridoust, Markus Knoerzer, Peter Thurgood, Ineke Muir, Ivan Marusic, Harshal Nandurkar, Arnan Mitchell, Warwick S Nesbitt

Journal article  |  2018  |  LAB ON A CHIP

This paper reports on the parameters that determine the haemocompatibility of elastomeric microvalves for blood handling in microf..

Assessment of a miniature four-roll mill and a cross-slot microchannel for high-strain-rate stagnation point flows

Farzan Akbaridoust, Jimmy Philip, Ivan Marusic

Journal article  |  2018  |  MEASUREMENT SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Stagnation point flows have been widely used to study the deformation and break-up of objects in two-dimensional pure straining fl..

Examining flow dynamics of platelet function in micro-contractions using micro-PIV

F Akbaridoust, CM de Silva, RJ Brazilek, X Chen, FJ Tovar-Lopez, E Poon, A Ooi, A Mitchell, H Nandurkar, WS Nesbitt, I Marusic

Conference Proceedings  |  2018  |  Proceedings of the 21st Australasian Fluid Mechanics Conference, AFMC 2018

This study examines the flow field in the near-vicinity of micro-contraction-expansion geometries in microfluidic devices designed..

A Miniature High Strain Rate Device

F Akbaridoust, J Philip, I MARUSIC

Conference Proceedings  |  2016

Presented here are micro-PIV measurements of velocity and strain rate in a cross-slot region of a micro-cross channel. A micro-cro..