Journal Club for June 26

How to prepare the McGrath Lab Surface Contact Angle Goniometer (SCAG) from a disassembled form. I will create detailed posts on potential uses in the future. GENERAL NOTES Based on the McGrath Lab SCAG as it was on May 16th, 2013 Instrument layout: All bolts and set screws are 1/4-20’s. The angle screws are 10-32’s. Loosely =…

Here is the paper I reviewed at the NRG meeting on 06/19. Utah Group Micro BBB Device I’ve also included my presentation: BBB Device Presentation This week I’m working on designing the basal and apical chambers, considering the necessary shear stresses.

I wanted to attempt pressurized and diffusion separations of brain extract using the new movable wafers. I tried pressure cell separations of 1:20 BBEC (clarified brain extract) at 2psi for 40 min. The flow rates were better than the standards I was previously using – this could be due to the little bit of glycerol…

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I’ve updated by 3D separations figure by using actual DLS sizes rather than the dimensions roughly obtained from crystal structures.  I have run into a snag with reporting the data however – use sizes by intensity or sizes by number.  The difference is due to the fact that the raw DLS data is from intensity,…

I did two tests using water straight out of the Barnstead and with water from the cleanroom in Hopeman.  I was able to maintain high permeability using the same membrane for at least three successive trials with both.  It looks like the culprit is the Nalgene container used to store the water.  For any sensitive…