Crystal Growth inside Nanopores

Our main purpose of this project is to reduce or eliminate the protein non-specific adsorption on the oxidized siliconnitride sample surface. By synthesis the PEG molecular on the surface, we believe we can reach the goal. There are different ways to synthesis the PEG on the surface. First is the silanes, after synthesis the silanes,…

Last week, I deposited silicon nitride/ amorphous silicon/ silicon nitride stack and then annealed the free standing stack after etching the substrate. The nitride film was deposited with 25W bias and the silicon film with 5W bias. The thickness for the nitride film is 30nm where it is 25nm for silicon.  One of the initial…

This week, I did a systematic study on the growth rate of carbon on bare and aluminum oxide coated pnc-Si membranes. The bare samples were not treated prior to carbonization, while the alumina coated samples underwent a 5 nm treatment in the ALD tool. A bare and alumina coated sample were placed together inside the…

Two years ago (blog post), I asked Professor McAleavey to help me see if we could use NPN chips to generate ultrasound. I’d found a paper (An exact solution of AC electro-kinetic-driven flow in a circular micro-channel) that suggested, given the geometry of our chips, that if the chips could be used to generate sound, they’d…

On June 10th, 11th, and 12th I was in Boise, ID for the North American Membrane Society (NAMS) annual meeting. While there, I presented Jess’s work on the EO pump in a poster session. I got the chance to meet Andrew Zydney of Penn State, Peter Pintauro of Vanderbilt, and hang out with our Clarkson collaborators Ruth Baltus and…