How water sticks to surfaces

Using Mike B.’s MATLAB script, I was able to generate some histograms and stats for wafer 187, 310, 319 and 320. I excluded the “small pore background”, as I do not believe these features go all the way through the membrane. wafer 187 wafer 310 wafer 319 wafer 320 The reason why I did not…

Over the summer, I have been working on a project with Rick Waugh that focuses on separating white blood cells from red blood cells. The goal is to be able to take a lancet droplet of whole blood and perform an analysis on this blood, whether it be for white blood cell phenotyping or exosome…

The motivation of this work by Daniela Lincoln (master’s student) was to investigate the feasibility of using different variants of parylene (C and N) for barrier studies and to look deeper into the implications of plasma surface modification for cell-substrate interactions. For this purpose, we used and tested a variety of device designs, which led…

Summary My analysis of npMgF2 has relied heavily on both tomogram and segmentation processes. The tomogram generation has thus far been sufficient, giving enough detail to our eye to identify different structures, but turning the tomograms into 3d models has been a lot more labor intensive. Using a neural network classifier (Weka, out of a…

In a previous post (linked here), I discussed a naïve way to incorporate concentration polarization into our theoretical model of the sieving of charged nanoparticles. Essentially, I considered the particles to be uncharged point particles that were subject to a force pushing them toward a surface (fluid velocity) and a force pushing them away from…