Viscosity vs. [BSA]

Porous metal-organic framework (MOF) crystal is obtained by precipitation after mixing an aqueous solution of cadmium nitrate and the solution of 4,4’-bipyridine in anhydrous ethanol.  It is found that the crystallization occurred when ethanol evaporated from the mixture.  As a result, 4,4-bipyridine became supersaturated and complexed with Cd forming an infinite two-dimensional sheet as shown…

pdf of Zydney Paper This paper tackles the concept of membrane capacity – the amount of fluid a membrane can pass before it’s flux declines (due to pore blockage or the buildup of a cake) to some arbitrary fraction of the initial flux. Common practice in industry (according to the paper) is to calculate capacity…

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Today I brought membranes and the streaming potential device to David Borkholder’s lab at RIT.  His students and I set up an initial low voltage experiment.  They will continue to test the device for flow rates and back pressures.  Here is a list of methods and results from today: SC 214, RTPed but not oxidized,…

Prior to my qualifying exam about a month ago, I put together a simple model of transport (detailed in this previous post) across a nanomembrane that incorporated electrostatics as well as terms describing both convective and diffusive transport across the membrane. It was a useful model, but ultimately limited, as shown by the following image:…

Two of my recent posts have dealt with my efforts to model ECMO and to experimentally validate this model. This post will describe the key change I made to my experimental system since my last post and describe my efforts to recreate the experimental results with my model — successfully! In an turn of extraordinary…