Low Voltage EO Pumping

It is well believed that the pore formation is directly related to the silicon crystallization. In this post, I’m gonna further show that how does the crystallization process affect the pore formation. The crystallization process can be divided into two stages. The first one is the nucleation of silicon atoms. In this stage, crystal nuclei…

Intro Recently we have been collaborating with the Moghaddam lab from the University of Florida, which specializes in the fabrication of graphene oxide (GO) membrane, to study the use GO membrane as a toxin filter or absorbent in hemodialysis and live support devices. We are  responsible for the hemocompatibility component of the study and used the following…

In this post we look at the effect of altering the area available for filtration on a standard 5 slot SepCon.  Karl and I did this by simply cutting gaskets such that they covered different regions of the surface of a chip.  We have three configurations, 1, 3 and 5 slots.  Here’s a picture of…

This is a retrial of the previously outline negative adsorption assay.  I was a little more careful with cuvettes this time around (there are very significant differences in the plastic cuvettes) and I spread out the same amount of solution over a larger area.  If exposed to more surface, more protein should adsorb and leave…

For context, see my previous post. Early on in the process of designing an experiment to confirm the usefulness of a CytoVu assembly for use as an assay, it was decided that the best solution for measuring the extremely low concentrations [ng/mL scale] of bacterial alkaline phosphatase (“bAP”) in the filtrate which would indicate what…

Ultimately we want to use SiN-NP filters to separate viruses or some other biological species, but repeated attempts to pass 20 nm fluorospheres in water or PBS have failed.  Au particles, however, have passed through the filters.  This post reports the results of Sarah and I attempting to pass Au particles from 20 to 100…