Large-area Ultra-thin Membranes Using XeF2 Senior Design

A couple weeks ago when I presented at lab meeting, Angela Glading suggested that I look at epithelial cell vacuolization on transwells.  This was in order to determine if vacuole formation was endothelial cell-specific.  If I’m remembering correctly, the rationale was that the vacuole-less fibroblasts I showed were not contact-inhibited cells and thus not a…

After integrating my thin film electrodes into the layer stack of the BBB device, I want to make some TEER measurements.       I stripped off the well-plate attachment off of the TEER tool, exposing the individual leads. To test that the circuit functioned properly, I placed the leads in DI water and then…

Wafer 1148 was produced roughly around the same time that the wafer I used to make my oldest MgF2 material (wafer 1085) was produced. We know that some of the NPN material from that time was not etched all the way through, creating pores that look like a ‘bowl-with-hole’. I believe the shape of the…

Introduction/Motivation A problem many of us face in day to day research is the ability to change membrane format in a days to weeks notice. The cost of developing an entire new wafer of membranes for preliminary experiments is costly and time consuming. This cost and time increases when complex formatting is desired. All of…

Helpful Hint: H₂O typed as text will yield H2O visually, and E = mc²O typed as text will yield E = mc2. Of course this affects line height, so choose your poison, I guess.