PEGS 2014

During our meeting with Vincent Tabard-Cossa from U Ottawa, we are going to explore the concept of using nano porous silicon nitride membranes in electronic detection schemes for identifying nucleic acid:small molecule complexes. The concept was demonstrated by Wanunu et al, Nano Letters, 2011, where they showed single nanopores were able to detect complexes of…

Hello All, My name is Dan Steiner and I am a rotation student that has been working with Dean on designing a modular benchtop apparatus to study in vivo blood dialysis. The purpose of this project is to create a dialysis system with the ability to scale up previous ultrathin silicon membrane dialysis experiments to…

The purpose of this post is to start a general discussion around the idea of using ultrathin silicon-based membranes and graphene oxide to improve Extracorporeal Liver Support, also called Artificial Liver Support (ALS) for patients with acute liver failure (ALF). What is Extracorporeal Liver Support? This is essentially the equivalent of renal dialysis for the liver….

For the upcoming tests I have planned for H2 purification, I need a fixture to hold the pnc-Si membranes (Sepcon format) that is compatible with operation up to 500 C.  No polymers are going to work. I describe the approach I’m working on below.  I heard that Karl is developing a holder similar to what…