On May 13, Jim McGrath and I are hosting Vincent Tabard-Cossa from the University of Ottawa. We will be interacting with Vincent as a sort of NRG mini-retreat day. See the information below. Vincent’s U Ottawa Page Home Visit Agenda…
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SEM of SiO2 Liftoff samples:
We were targeting a TEOS layer of 300 nm for the SiO2 membrane. The wafers were patterned with ø3 µm pores using S1813 resist (~1.5 µm thick). The target etch time in the Drytek RIE is 4 min 10 s…
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Incorporating a ECM hydrogel into an in vitro microvasculature system – Part II and update
This is just an update for the experiments Tejas and I have been working on for the past two weeks: First, we tried incorporating 20 μl of Geltrex (10 mg/ml, diluted with DMEM from stock concentration: i.e. 15.6 mg/ml) in the…
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Successful SiO2 Membrane Liftoff
Bob and I have been busy for the last couple of weeks going through the fabrication process with the hopes of SiO2 membrane liftoff. The fabrication process was similar to the silicon nitride membrane liftoff. The process is shown in…
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Secrets of the NSF
While serving on an NSF MRI (Major Research Instrumentation program) review panel today the director shared his analysis of funding probabilities as a function of score. The analysis was only done for the Directorate of Math and Physical Sciences, but…
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Incorporating a ECM hydrogel into an in vitro microvasculature system
For the past month, I have been working along with Tejas towards incorporating an ECM-like hydrogel into the back (edged side) of a pnc-Si chip. The purpose of this effort is to add another layer of complexity to Tejas’ in…
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Testing of Printed Transwells for SEPCON chips
Testing was performed on 3D-printed transwell device prototypes for use as culture devices with SEPCON chip integration(Makerbot2 printed Transwells for SEPCON chips). The performed testing attempted to determine the quality of seal of interfaces between all device components. The two…
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Permeance tests with new Omega rotameter
Yaron has acquired an Omega rotameter (FL-3803ST) with interchangeable flow tubes. The tubes operate in three different ranges low (6-61 mL/min, 042-15-N), medium (150-1,682 mL/min, 082-03-N), and High (1,000-23,752 mL/min, 034-39-N). I’ve attached an excel file with the calibration data…
Makerbot2 printed Transwells for SEPCON chips
In Nottingham this summer, I attempted to use a Makerbot2 printer to create culture devices for SEPCON chips. I had varying degrees of success, but I was not able to get a good seal between the PLA and gaskets using…
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NP + IgG cleanup in 0.1% Tween 20
Our previous work with reverse centrifugation NPN membranes has shown that they may work for cleaning up excess protein from conjugated NPs. This initial success used ~20 nm red fluospheres with membranes from wafer 1070 (10-15%, ~45nm) and unlabeled IgG…
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