This lovely paper: 121025 – ACSnano fluidic transistor pore details the creation of a “nanofluidic transistor”. In essence, by changing the charge on the (metallized) membrane from 0V to 500V, the group can completely stop the transport of DNA molecules (which are…
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Paper Review… Human Nephron Filter: Nissenson(Watts) UCLA
In researching for the paper for Advances in Chronic Kidney Disease (ACKD) I’ve run across some interesting papers. Here is one describing a proposed Human Nephron Filter… Human nephron filter proposed by Nissenson1 (1) 1Division of Nephrology, Department of Medicine,…
A nifty little Matlab code to show why we need to wet the backsides of the membranes
I couldn’t really make sense of what was happening in this post, and in particular this figure threw me for a loop: So to help myself understand the relationship I whipped up a little matlab app to show the…
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BBB Device V2-8 with Copper Bus Demonstrates Dynamic TEER Reading
I took some copper tape and made a bus bar for BBB device V2-8. I used tweezers to smooth down the surface of the tape on each planar surface, routing the copper to the back side of each face,…
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Excimer laser annealing of sputtered three-layer stack (1)
Hello everyone! I plan to write several posts in the next couple of weeks about the laser annealing of our sputtered three-layer stack. This laser annealing experiment is done at Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences (CNMS) at Oak Ridge National…
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LPS Pipettor Repair On-Site Reminder
WHERE: URMC ** Room # 4-7545 ** WHEN: Tuesday April 16th & Wednesday the 17th. TIME: 9:00-4:00 P.M. Please drop off your pipettors early as we expect a good turnout. Pipettors will be done on a first come, first served…
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Porous TEM windows fabrication using CsCl self-assembly
The competition keeps coming at us … Liu(Cui)JVSTB12
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MEMs and membranes: a Liver Assist Device
Maria Lynch will review this article by Jeffrey Borenstein and colleagues … Borenstein – 2010 – Liver Assist Device
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Implantable Kidney
DailyHemo Report of Dr. Fissell’s Implantable Kidney Development Sometimes the link above “Implantable Kidney” doesn’t seem to work. http://www.dailyhemo.org/implantable-kidney
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