As many of you know, we have been having a lot of trouble with the new etch cell and have not been able to produce high quality membranes. Yesterday, we discovered that the stainless steel used to fabricate the new…
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Separations with Millipore and Pall Membranes
In anticipation of the pnc-Si separation paper, I have performed a couple of preliminary separations using NanoSeps and MicroCons. I applied 200ul of 1:20 brain extract ( ~.9mg/mL) to 100k NanoSeps and MicroCons, and I spun the samples for 3…
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Adsorption to polymer membranes
Previously we have studied protein adsorption to pnc-Si membranes by TEM and fluorescence. Neither of these methods will work with polymer membranes. Polymer membranes are too thick to view using TEM. Polymer membranes also autofluoresce creating a lot of noise…
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Incubator versus Benchtop
(Transferred from old blog) From the above discoloration array it can be inferred that the RTP treated samples in the incubator are discoloring in much slower rate than the ones on the benchtop. Thus, incubator conditions prevent the chips from…
Effect of salt on pores (benchtop)
(Transferred from old blog) The above TEM images show that RTP (800C, 5 min) treated samples (from W334) have their pores intact in salt over a period of time! 1M and 2M NaCl solutions were used and TEM samples were…
RTP Treated Membrane Stability in DMEM
(Transferred from old blog) Wafer 303 samples, both non-RTP and RTP (800C for 5 minutes), were tested in cell media (DMEM supplemented with 10% FBS) or deionized water, and placed in the incubator (37C 5% CO2) or oven (approximately 37C).…
pH Variation of DMEM
(Transferred from old blog) Aim: Determine how quickly DMEM pH changes once removed from the incubator Methods and Materials: • non-sterile complete Dulbecco’s Modified Eagle’s Medium (DMEM) supplemented with 10% FBS • 6 and 24 well cell culture plates •…
Dye transport through 501
It took me a little while to figure out how to turn the .avi file into a .gif, but here is an image of the diffusion through 501. Due to a problem with MatLab, it took about 5min before I…
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W501: Air Permeability and Burst Pressure
Here are the results for air permeability testing of W501. The sample closest to the origin had one very small (very difficult to see on Brian’s scope unless viewing at 100x) pinhole, the middle sample had 3 very small pinholes.…
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TEM of PVP treated membranes
The unwashed membrane has a definite “film” over it which makes the pores look textured. The MeOH & H2O seems to clear the pores up, but there are some places where there is remaining PVP that sticks to the inside…
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