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Jürg Dual

Jürg Dual

D-Index & Metrics

Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

D-Index
48
Citations
8793
World Ranking
1293
National Ranking
17

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2003 - Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers

Overview

Jürg Dual is affiliated with ETH Zurich in Switzerland and conducts research primarily within the field of Engineering. Their work focuses on a range of subfields including Biomedical Engineering, Atmospheric Science, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, as well as Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine.

The scientist's research topics cover a variety of areas, with significant contributions to Microfluidic and Bio-sensing Technologies, Microfluidic and Capillary Electrophoresis Applications, Nanopore and Nanochannel Transport Studies, Landslides and related hazards, Cryospheric studies and observations, 3D Printing in Biomedical Research, and Winter Sports Injuries and Performance.

Recent publications authored or co-authored by Jürg Dual include:

  • Acoustic streaming produced by sharp-edge structures in microfluidic devices (2020, Microfluidics and Nanofluidics)
  • Acoustic Radiation Forces Produced by Sharp-Edge Structures in Microfluidic Systems (2020, Physical Review Letters)
  • Micromechanical modeling of snow failure (2020, The Cryosphere)
  • Embedded Microbubbles for Acoustic Manipulation of Single Cells and Microfluidic Applications (2021, Analytical Chemistry)
  • Micro-mechanical insights into the dynamics of crack propagation in snow fracture experiments (2021, Scientific Reports)

Jürg Dual has collaborated frequently with several co-authors, among whom are Alen Pavlič, Cooper Lars Harshbarger, Michael Gerlt, Jess G. Snedeker, and Grégoire Bobillier. These coauthors appear repeatedly in published work, indicating ongoing research partnerships.

The preferred venues for publishing include Physical review. E, arXiv (Cornell University), Lab on a Chip, The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, and Default Digital Object Group.

In 2003, Jürg Dual was recognized as a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers.

Best Publications

  • Microscopical Investigations of PEDOT:PSS Thin Films

    Udo Lang;Elisabeth Müller;Nicola Naujoks;Jurg Dual

  • Monolithically Fabricated Microgripper With Integrated Force Sensor for Manipulating Microobjects and Biological Cells Aligned in an Ultrasonic Field

    F. Beyeler;A. Neild;S. Oberti;D.J. Bell

  • Mechanical characterization of PEDOT : PSS thin films

    Udo Lang;Nicola Naujoks;Jurg Dual

  • Inverse finite element characterization of soft tissues.

    Martin Kauer;Vladimir Vuskovic;Jurg Dual;Gábor Székely

  • Artificial Swimmers Propelled by Acoustically Activated Flagella.

    Daniel Ahmed;Thierry Baasch;Bumjin Jang;Salvador Pane

  • Neutrophil-inspired propulsion in a combined acoustic and magnetic field.

    Daniel Ahmed;Thierry Baasch;Nicolas Blondel;Nino Läubli

  • Microfluidic droplet handling by bulk acoustic wave (BAW) acoustophoresis

    Ivo Leibacher;Peter Reichert;Jürg Dual

  • Size effects in tensile testing of thin cold rolled and annealed Cu foils

    G. Simons;Ch. Weippert;J. Dual;J. Villain

  • Forthcoming Lab on a Chip tutorial series on acoustofluidics: Acoustofluidics—exploiting ultrasonic standing wave forces and acoustic streaming in microfluidic systems for cell and particle manipulation

    Henrik Bruus;Jurg Dual;Jeremy Hawkes;Martyn Hill

  • 3D imaging of microstructure of spruce wood.

    P Trtik;J Dual;D Keunecke;D Mannes

  • Manipulation of micrometer sized particles within a micromachined fluidic device to form two-dimensional patterns using ultrasound

    Stefano Oberti;Adrian Neild;Jürg Dual

  • Design, modeling and characterization of microfluidic devices for ultrasonic manipulation

    Adrian Neild;Stefano Oberti;Jürg Dual

  • Experimental determination of mechanical properties of Ni and Ni-Fe microbars

    E. Mazza;S. Abel;J. Dual

  • Virtual Reality-Based Simulation of Endoscopic Surgery

    G. Székely;Ch. Brechbühler;J. Dual;R. Enzler

  • Manipulation of cells using an ultrasonic pressure field

    Albrecht Haake;Adrian Neild;Deok Ho Kim;Deok Ho Kim;Jong Eun Ihm

  • Numerical simulation of acoustofluidic manipulation by radiation forces and acoustic streaming for complex particles

    Philipp Hahn;Ivo Leibacher;Thierry Baasch;Jurg Dual

  • Positioning of small particles by an ultrasound field excited by surface waves.

    A. Haake;J. Dual

  • The use of acoustic radiation forces to position particles within fluid droplets

    Stefano Oberti;Adrian Neild;Raymond Quach;Jürg Dual

  • Impedance matched channel walls in acoustofluidic systems

    Ivo Leibacher;Sebastian Schatzer;Jürg Dual

  • Contactless micromanipulation of small particles by an ultrasound field excited by a vibrating body

    Albrecht Haake;Jurg Dual

Frequent Co-Authors

Jürg Schweizer
Jürg Schweizer Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research
Adrian Neild
Adrian Neild Monash University
Edoardo Mazza
Edoardo Mazza ETH Zurich
Yu Sun
Yu Sun University of Toronto
C. M. Sotomayor Torres
C. M. Sotomayor Torres Institut Català de Nanociència i Nanotecnologia
Deok-Ho Kim
Deok-Ho Kim Johns Hopkins University
Masoud Motavalli
Masoud Motavalli Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology
Paul Leiderer
Paul Leiderer University of Konstanz

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