NxStage System One Now Cleared for Night Time Hemodialysis in Europe

Recently, I have been exploring the temperature dependence of post-Si deposition Ar sputtered films (15 nm thick). Below is a comparison of the average pore size, porosity, and density of pores of Ar and non-Ar sputtered films annealed between 800 C and 1100 C. It appears that Ar sputtering increases the avg. diameter and porosity…

The Burden of Tendon Injuries on HealthCare: Acute and chronic tendon injuries commonly affecting the working-age population are frequently work-related and have negative socioeconomic outcomes such as productivity loss, income loss, and unemployment(O’Hara et al., 2020). Tendon injuries are often multifaceted and can be characterized by inflammation and degenerative changes in tendon structures collectively known…

In my last post, I introduced the concept of pore size dependent carbon growth on alumina coated membranes. Here, I have plotted a Gaussian fit of the tail of the pore size distribution of carbonized membranes (with and without an alumina coating). I am only showing the tail of the distribution to highlight the sharpness…

This is a follow-up to my initial report on using the ALD to coat pnc-Si pores with Al2O3. Below are the TEM micrographs and histogram of a series of depositions I performed with 3 different process times. I was targeting a 5 nm, 10 nm, and 20 nm reduction in pore diameter. The average diameter…

We finally achieved a separation using the EQ format. 4 SepCons from wafer 319 were loaded with 500 uL of .93 mg/mL clarified brain extract. They were run at 1000 rpm (which we roughly figured to be 3.3 psi initially) for 2 hours. After 2 hours, I judged the flow through the membrane to be…