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bridging the gaps between

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" Under the lab coat, hearts are beating, vibrating, scared, loving, doubting... "

Let's release the sweet poetry of research and innovation, let's imagine tomorrow's technologies with sensitivity, let's open a window towards a more human future.

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Latest projects

  • Microfluidic device with Falcon reservoirs connected to tubing used on the Microfluidic poetry photography project. | Julien Ridouard in collaboration with Elveflow
  • Gold droplets made with a microfluidic device in the laboratory. Photography, Microfluidic Poetry | Julien Ridouard in collaboration with Elveflow
  • Miscible gold droplets in an ocean of violet pigment. Photography, Microfluidic poetry | Julien Ridouard in collaboration with Elveflow
  • Ocean blue pigment with self-generated retractable veins. Photography, Microfluidic poetry | Julien Ridouard in collaboration with Elveflow
  • Close up of red, orange and yellow droplets encapsulated in a transparent oil environment. Photography, Microfluidic poetry | Julien Ridouard in collaboration with Elveflow
  • Mesh of transparent droplets in a blue-violet pigment environment. Photography, Microfluidic poetry | Julien Ridouard in collaboration with Elveflow

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Microfluidic poetry
A unique, imaginative and sensitive vision of the microfluidics field

Can we feel a scientific practice, through emotion, through the realm of the sensitive? Can we get a peek of microfluidics without talking about science, without showing the instruments?

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  • Heart design on a PDMS/glass microfluidic chip with blue liquid pigments. 26x76 mm │ Photo credit: Vincent Petitgas
  • Heart design on a microfluidic chip with blue liquid pigments. Framed 24x30cm │ Photo credit: Vincent Petitgas
  • Under the microscope, looking at a microfluidic channel filled with pink liquid pigment. | Photo credit: Julien Ridouard
  • Microfluidic chip under fabrication. "I love you" was engraved in the PDMS polymer. | Photo credit: Julien Ridouard
  • Julien Ridouard observing the design of a microfluidic chip in the Blackhole Lab facility. | Photo credit: David Tergémina
  • Benjamin Sévénié, PhD working under the laboratory hood with the spin coater, making SU-8 mold at Blackhole Lab. | Photo credit: Julien Ridouard

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Art-On-Chip
Exploring Point-of-Care devices & Organs-on-chips

Could we recreate outside our bodies our own emotions to look at them, learning from them, be more confident with our own inside emotions? Can we create emotions-on-a-chip?

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  • Take me along with you. Photography, ref: QF_190282, Quantum Future | Julien Ridouard, 2019
  • Everywhere and nowhere else. Photography, ref: QF_190265, Quantum Future | Julien Ridouard, 2019
  • Optical lens used in the realization of the photographic series. Photography series, Quantum Future | Julien Ridouard, 2019
  • Why am I different? Photography, ref: QF_190275, Quantum Future | Julien Ridouard, 2019
  • Everywhere and nowhere else 2. Photography, ref: QF_190286, Quantum Future | Julien Ridouard, 2019

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Quantum Future
Interrogate the nature of light

The Quantum Future Project is a photographic exploration to interrogate the complexity of the quantum reality.

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