Hello everyone! The new FEI Osiris TEM system has been finally setup recently. With the new purchased Gatan single tilt heating holder 628, we were managed to do an in-situ heating experiment with the Osiris system last week. We used…
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Large-area Ultra-thin Membranes Using XeF2 Senior Design
Power Point for my Senior Design https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B1AH05-mf_tQLTdSMHRWX0NjNGc/edit?usp=sharing
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3-mer PEG vapor deposition on pncSi: time stability studies
This is my first attempt of depositing PEG using vapor deposition methods, in a controlled fashion. The stepwise procedure: Josh was extremely kind by providing me with a diced pncSi wafer [windowless]. He taught me how to do the buffered…
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Microarray progress: slightly successful seeding and dilution/concentration variations
A control was done to observe cell proliferation on a TPM coated cover glass. Images were taken at 10x after 4 days. TPM coated cover glass Polystyrene petri dish We are having some success with the seeding of bend.3 cells…
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Control of DNA Capture by Nanofluidic Transistors
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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