Journal club

Sarah, Tejas, and I bought some “Invitrogen Ultrapure DI water” from the medical center to see if we would find a different permeability using the clean water vs the water from the Barnstead. Sarah and I repeated our permeability tests but made sure to measure the flow rate for the first 100 uL.  We got…

Having generated some tomograms of various Au, NPN, and MgF2 nanostructures in the past months, I should be able to parameterize these structures. I have many questions about how the nanostructures actually effect SERS performance. In general, we can use these methods to more accurately and precisely describe our nanomembranes. Hypothetical Factors Surface Roughness ~=…

At Nanotech I met a professor from Geneseo, K. Yokoyama, who worked with gold in sol-gels. He found he was able to dissolved gold in sodium tetra bromate (Na2Br4O7) without it aggregating. I have attempted to dissolve gold in other salts to no avail. This is an important step in testing membrane separations with gold,…

Wafer 302 appears to have no pinholes and held up pretty well in the centrifuge, up to 5psi for many hours in a wet-wet format. Here are some quick numbers on flow rate over 2 hours, 3.3psi, including radial position:1x PBS (no protein)68 uL (r=4.1)91 uL (r=4.1)99 uL (r=4.5) Using Jim’s new equation. 99uL 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…