Journal Club for June 26

A group published a paper in Lab on a Chip (2012) using track-etched membranes for electro-osmosis. There are a lot of eerily familiar terms and concepts in the paper. The title even sounds familiar: Low-voltage electroosmotic pumps fabricated from track-etched polymer membranes They created a device with metal mesh electrodes on the opposite sides of…

Here is the figure we talked about in the last meeting. For each specific membrane, I’ve plotted both the experimental permeability and the permeability calculated from the theory. You can see in some cases they are close, but in others they can be pretty far off. Omitted from this chart are retests. Updated: Graph is…

I attempted to clear the large format lift-off devices (from Josh). I was unable to clear, in a reasonable amount of time (< 2 hours) by pumping IPA. So I switched to PBS then Blood and blue-dyed PBS (dye is estimated to be between 10 nm and 500 nm, obviously the amount of dye near…