Temp-controlled 'nanopores' may allow detailed blood analysis

A simple experiment that has never been done is to make a direct comparison between annealing inside and outside the susceptor. Intuitively, we would expect the morphologies to be quite different since the heating mechanism is different for both cases. Inside the susceptor, the film is heated through blackbody radiation from the susceptor. Without the…

In collaboration with Alex Shestopalov’s lab, I started working on liquid based PEG treatment on windowed sepcon chips. The treatment is a 3-day long protocol and involves multiple washing and drying steps with different reagents. Most of our sepcon chips broke down in first few steps itself. The initial wash consists of Nanostrip (sulfuric plus nitric…

Hello Everyone, Kilean helped us to set a training session for NanoParticle Tracking Analysis (NTA) in UR Medical Center. For this training session, i had 4 samples including: Beads, Liposomes, Media + 10% serum, and PBS. Here  is a summary of what we learned, i am also summarizing a paper that i found for comparing…

After discussions with the gentleman in charge of surface functionalization at INT last week, Jim suggested that I attempt to pretreat our membranes with 0.1% SDS before a filtration.  The hope being that some surfactant left on the surface of the membrane would be enough to facilitate water passage through the membrane without wetting the…

So I think I have confirmed that PDMS is at least one of if not the major contributor to the contact angle problems in the UV-ozone system. Control image before any treatment: I then dried the chip and placed it in the UV-ozone system with two slides that each had two strips of PDMS. Since…

I fixed the graph for the serial dilution of Rhodamine that I did last week and removed all absorbency values that were greater than 1.08 AU. The graph looks much more linear now with an R^2 value of .9517