I have been trying to fabricate my own Indium Tin Oxide (ITO) electrodes on coverslips for the BBB device in order to minimize the working distance for any microscopy. Currently, I am using microscope slides that are way too thick…

A few weeks ago, I did some RTP annealing of NSN and OSO stacks. The purpose of this annealing experiment was hoping to capture the onset of pore formation and see whether there is any different behavior between NSN and…

The Barcikowski samples, sent from Germany a month ago, continue to be a fecund source of inconsistant data. Using the DLS to monitor several filtrations has resulted in a series of baffling results that I think I’ve finally begun to…

I have created a successfully sealed flow chamber with this current device (V2.4), with the caveat that I sealed off the top chamber and was unable to test leaking from the top to the bottom. Again, the dialysis chips from…

The CHA e-beam evaporator in RIT had been used traditionally for the deposition of metal on the pnc-Si membranes. The most important factor for metal deposition on the membranes is that the nanoholes must not be blocked. So the metal…

As we make larger and larger pores, we see that they are becoming more convoluted and have stopped looking like circles or ellipse. In order to try describing these shapes, they were given a “roundness” number which was calculated by…

I’ve made some modifications to my V2 design such that it allows total vertical access, among other things:   This design utilizes embedded electrodes and filter within gasket layers to create a tight fluidic seal for each channel. Here, the…

In this experiment I use a syringe pump to move urea dissolved in ddH2O through a 10 mm long, 300 µm high, 500 µm wide dialysis channel. The retentate is collected in a fraction collector then measured using a urea…