ICNMM 2016 – Transport in Membranes and Nanofluids (July 10-14, 2016)

Previous posts: Theory Deposition Etching Imaging First Freestanding Membranes I had previously made free-standing nanomembranes that were mostly MgF2 according to the EDAX scan of the freestanding region:   I hoped to duplicate my results and send over a few more samples to Nottingham. With that in mind, I ran an evaporation to produce a 50nm MgF2 nanomembrane (250C, 1-2…

While wafers 670 and 673 did not hold up to diffusion experiments, they were strong enough to perform pressurized separations using the pressure cell.  Each experiment lasted for 40min, although the average flow was only about 5ul for this duration. 673 has a pore cutoff around 30nm (refer to Dave’s post).  The following gel shows…

In order to test the efficacy of any dialysis treatment, we need induce uremia in our animal model. We choose to forgo the surgical approach of performing a 5/6 nephrectomy via ligation for the simpler diet based approach. Feeding the animals a diet containing adenine is meant to raise the level of urea in the…

This is the second in my series of posts that will be on my model exosome system. As I am trying to define the appropriate conditions for separating exosomes from blood and other fluids, I am first going through and trying to isolate each important parameter and see how they affect the capture of these…

On Friday I posted results from a diffusion experiment in which I tested “treated” and “untreated” SC256 samples against the diffusion of a mixture of DDM and BSA. The DDM-BSA solution contained an initial DDM concentration of 1.0% and an initial BSA concentration of 2.5mg/mL; the solution also contained 20mM HEPES and was at a…