Background: At the end of August, Greg Schmidt and I were investigating the feasibility of a project that builds off of my PhD research: templating and patterning new materials on top of NPN/microporous nitride. We hope to make composite nanomembranes…

Introduction In previous posts by both Alec and Kayli, the urea clearance performance of our bench-top single-pass dialysis devices has been described. Results regarding devices containing untreated, PEG-treated, and nonporous membranes can be found in the “Current Dialysis Research [McGrath…

Device Breakdown 1 – Pressure Regulator 2 – System Isolation Valve 3 – Pressure Gauge 4 – 3 Way Valve – point left for only pressure gauge, point right to select a volumetric flow meter 5 – 3 Way Valve…

Hi everyone, this is going to be a brief update on something that I’ve been working on the side. I’ll be showing pore detection using color subtraction and Canny edge detection. All code was written in Mathematica. First up, color…

Introduction: Kidney failure, also called ESRD, is the last stage of chronic kidney disease (CKD) where kidneys function below 10 to 15 percent of their normal levels. In the United States, there are over 660,000 ESRD patients from all ages,…

Recently we were interested in finding out how many particles from our immobilized graphene oxide (GO) nanolaminates are delaminated into suspension due to shear stress. We wanted to compare this concentration to those found in our previous hemolysis studies to…

Introduction Over the past year, our lab has been working in close collaboration with the Schwarz lab to design, develop, and manufacture microfluidic transwells for their P50 project. The project was initiated after the discovery of S. aureus migration through…

From the last post, I had successfully manufactured waveguide on top of our porous silicon nanomembrane chip. However, the proof that light can transmit through the waveguide was not accomplished until last week. The problems I was experiencing included insufficient…

Hello Everyone, So Shannon and i have been working on studying the effect of exosomes in different conditions for wound healing assays and random migrations. This post is about one of our experiments (wound healing) to give you an update…

In this edition of the particle capture saga (this will eventually be an epic like Gilgamesh or Beowulf, we will start telling this tale by the fire and eventually thousands of years from now scholars will look back on this…