NSF STTR Goals

This previous post contrasted how gold could be separated by pressure in deionized water, but not by diffusion (w199).  I checked up on that diffusion sample again after 6 days, and while the retentate had mostly evaporated, there was no gold within the remaining filtrate. As you may recall, there has been some discrepency with…

This is a short review of a few experiments that Tom had set up this morning. Carbonized membranes: A few carbonized membranes that were used for permeability measurements were tested in EO.  The membranes were left in the sepcon, which was filled and placed in a reservoir.  Electrodes went inside the sepcon and the reservoir. …

Hello NRG! Thanks to Jim McGrath and NSF, St. John Fisher College students and myself will have the opportunity to conduct research at URNano and the McGrath Lab this summer.  I am an Assistant Professor at Fisher in the Biology Department, and my  background is in cellular immunology, with a focus on sterile inflammation.  Why…

Hello Everyone, Here is a summary of my trip to Nashville to learn about extracellular vesicles in cancer and present my work on isolation of nanoparticles/EVs using ultrathin nanomembranes.  Main points of the conference:  This conference was about EVs in cancer, and did not include a lot about therapeutic applications of EVs. I could only…

For the first time, we did time-lapse phase microscopy (1 frame / 5 seconds) looking at endothelial cells through the ITO in the static BBB device (device A bottom left well) and measuring the TEER concurrently. Here’s the video, just shy of 15 minutes of recording.  (reporting a low resistance: 5-10 ohms, shorted). TEER Test…