Neither Centrifugation, Sonication, nor Filtration Fix the Aggregation in the Barcikowski Lab Samples
In early May, the Barcikowski lab shipped us four samples of gold nanoparticles for us to run separations on. They took forever to get here, and had aggregated and precipitated by the time they arrived. About a week ago, the lab sent another batch of four samples (which differed slightly from the samples they sent…