Modeling pericyte loss in CNS disease using the µSiM platform to understand post-operative delirium superimposed on dementia – Michelle’s MPS Talk

This week, I did a systematic study on the growth rate of carbon on bare and aluminum oxide coated pnc-Si membranes. The bare samples were not treated prior to carbonization, while the alumina coated samples underwent a 5 nm treatment in the ALD tool. A bare and alumina coated sample were placed together inside the…

Summary Surface roughness is believed to impact the SERS effect. Rougher surfaces tend to produce more SERS activity. We can manipulate the npMgF2 surface by changing the deposition temperature, in the form of changing the grain nucleation, shifting the overall grain size and roughness. I performed TEM tomography and segmentation to pull out distributions of…

Because I’ve been having such a difficult time measuring consistent zetapotentials (a big and heartbreakingly inconclusive post on those efforts is forthcoming) I decided to use one of my silver-coated SNMs as an EO pump and see if changing the voltage applied to the membrane changed the rate of EO. And I’m very happy to…

For the charge model, we would like to know the surface charge density and size of our experimental molecules.  I’ve attempted to use the Zetasizer for both measurements, but as mentioned in my diffusion paper, DLS gives sizes that deviate from the expected or crystal sizes.  Since zeta potential measurements require large amounts of highly…