Lab Floors Getting Cleaned on Feb 22

This post presents the data from all of my TEER experiments of BBB co-cultures, with bEnd3 endothelial cells on the bottom and NG101815 glia on the top of PET and pnc-Si transwells.  For all experiments, I used 50000 cells/cm2 as the seeding density.  I always had 3 samples – bEnd3 alone, NG10815 alone and the…

Hi all, this report will serve both as an update and a template for my upcoming BMES 2012 poster on the shear-free chemotaxis system. Introduction:  Because of its capability in hosting reactions and transporting materials in small volumes, microfluidics enables the efficient processing of precious reagents. However, the shear stress inherent in the use of…

I’ve been thinking a lot about energy storage lately, and I think I’ve found a potential use for pnc-Si in Supercapacitors. What is a supercapacitor? As the name suggests, it’s a double-layer capacitor (EDLC) with very high capacitance values (1-500+ Farads) or a million times more than that of a typical dielectic capacitor. An electrolyte…

Last week I ran a series of membranes through the carbonization process at four different temperatures (600, 700, 750 and 800 C) at a fixed acetylene concentration (1 LPM).  As expected, the growth of the carbon ring around our pores is temperature dependent.  Note: image processing was done on 100 kx micrographs with the exception…