In Episode 3 of this series, I have begun working towards improving my COMSOL modeling for particle capture. In addition to running simulations, I need to run experiments to try and correlate real world solutions with simulated results. One of the major focus points of my work has been trying to explain the shape of…
In this edition of the particle capture saga (this will eventually be an epic like Gilgamesh or Beowulf, we will start telling this tale by the fire and eventually thousands of years from now scholars will look back on this work and deem it a huge impact in the history of human evolution), I have…
This is a continuation of my post from last time where I looked at modeling actual pore geometries in COMSOL. In this post, I explored the new feature that we have with COMSOL that is the Particle Tracing Module. This module really enables the visualization of particle behavior in our systems where we can better…
As Greg posted last time, he and I have been working on a manuscript for all of the tomography stuff that we have done that we are going to hopefully submit this week. In that paper, we covered all the tomography techniques that Greg uses to reconstruct models of the pores and then used these…
This an extremely important topic that has come up multiple times in discussions within NRG as well as during my qualifying exam. The question is: are gold nanoparticles a good model for exosomes? The reason that this question comes up is because exosomes are biological material and as such they have some vastly different properties…
As Aim 1 of my thesis involves using theoretical models to be able to predict particle capture, it is important for me to fully understand how each model system behaves when compared to experimental results. One of the most important of these systems is the pressure drop across the membrane in our devices. I have…
Hi All, These are documents associated with my proposal: Silicon Nanomembranes for Rapid Liquid Biopsies from Whole Blood and Urine. Proposal: Kilean_Lucas_PhD_Thesis_Proposal_Reduced File Presentation: Proposal Presentation_03
So Alec, Tejas and I will have a poster at the Immune Imaging Symposium in the Med Center on Nov. 4th and we created an image for our abstract that Jim requested I post here in higher quality. Immune Imaging Abstract Image_01 The image is so high quality that it was having trouble loading into…
Last week, I attended the American Society of Exosomes and Microvesicles (ASEMV) conference in Monterey, Ca and presented a poster on the work that I’ve been doing. Despite a very low turnout for my poster session (due to the scheduling of a long break before and dinner after), I met with some very interesting people…
So this is basically an update of my post from a couple of weeks ago (and a figure from the poster that I just put up), but it is a very good status update of the contamination experiments that I have been running with XPS. Basically, I ran the sample that had been purified by…