These are low burst results but samples have lots of pinholes on them many of which are on the edges.
I also checked porosity of the wafers 338 and 340. They indeed have porosities close to 7%.
Wafer 340 (0,5) 0.0656 porosity
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Production this week yielded mixed results. We ran eight wafers through four different RTP temperatures with/without the susceptor. We wanted to test our theory that temperature non-uniformity inside the chamber was causing the morphology change across the wafer. This proved to not be the case! Wafers that were treated with and without susceptor showed the…
Purpose: Study the hemocompatibility of different substrates using the concentration of C3a as the indicator. Background: C3a is a protein produced during immune response. Directly from Wikipedia: The classical pathway of complement activation is initiated when the C1 complex, made up of C1r and C1s serine proteases, recognizes the Fc region of IgM or IgG…
I found this article about a macro-microfluidic interconnect that I want to try out at some point. We might even be able to seal tube-block interface with PDMS for a tighter seal. http://blogs.rsc.org/chipsandtips/2006/11/13/a-simple-interface-between-a-pdms-microfluidic-device-and-a-syringe/ A simple interface between a PDMS microfluidic device and a syringe 13 Nov 2006 By Francesca Burgoyne. Jeonggi Seo and Meng…
Voting is open until NRG tomorrow. We’ll critically discuss the winner and summarize the 2nd place paper. [yop_poll id=”3″]
The idea of adding a pulldown modification to our bacteria assay protocol came about after we started to believe that pore discovery was our rate limiting step of the transmission process, discussed here. Initially, it seemed to benefit our assay as it bumped our performance up significantly. Upon closer inspection we realized that we had…