Microfluidics and Nanofluidics Handbook (PDF)

Dr. Sushanta K. Mitra is an associate professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Alberta, and he is the director of "Micro and Nano-scale Transport Laboratory" located at the National Institute for Nanotechnology. He received his bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering from Jadavpur University, India; master's degree from the University of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada; and PhD in mechanical engineering from the University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. His research areas include micro- or nanoscale transport processes, flow in porous media, and fuel cells. He has authored and coauthored more than 85 papers in peer-reviewed journals and conference proceedings. He is a registered Professional Engineer of Ontario and APEGGA. Dr. Suman Chakraborty is currently a professor in the Mechanical Engineering Department of the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India. He has research interests in the area of microfluidics and micro- or nanoscale transport processes, including their theoretical, computational, and experimental modeling, encompassing the underlying fundamentals as well as the biomedical, biotechnological, chip cooling, and energy-related applications. He has been elected as a Fellow of the Indian National Academy of Science (FNASc) and Fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering (FNAE). He is recipient of the Indo-US Research Fellowship, the Scopus Young Scientist Award for high citation of his research in scientific/technical journals, and the Young Scientist/Young Engineer Awards from various National Academies of Science and Engineering. He has also been an Alexander von Humboldt Fellow and a visiting professor at Stanford University. He has 160+ international journal publications.