The NRG website downtime you’ve suffered in recent weeks is paying dividends. Most of this has been in operation for a while, but in case you haven’t noticed here is the first round of changes we’ve rolled out … Sharing internal NRG News. If you have a note or news item to share with the NRG you…
Links and Papers: Article with video Lung on a Chip Device Paper Lung on a Chip Application (Pulmonary Edema) Chris came across the publicity video last week and Jim asked me to look into the specifics. It’s a pretty nifty device. As the video shows, the device is a co-culture structure fabricated entirely from PDMS….
We created a 25-40-25 OSO stack with a SEPCON pattern. RTP at 1050 C 100 C/s 60 s. The following images show a comparison between the STEM detector and the SEM detector, and then a couple more images at 100 kx and 50 kx. I calculated a porosity of ~6.5 %, and…
This week I tried looking into several different ways of detecting the elusive Barcikowski Peptide. We discovered that Coomassie staining does not work, both because of the size of the peptide (it only works on proteins with a MW > 3000Da) and because Coomassie preferentially binds basic residues (and with a sequence of CEEEEEEEEEEEEW, we’re…
… Jim is out of town. Jim James L. McGrath, PhD Associate Professor Director of the Graduate Program Biomedical Engineering University of Rochester Robert B. Goergen Hall Rm. 306 Box 270168 Rochester, NY 14627 https://trace-bmps.org http://mcgrathlab.bme.rochester.edu twitter: @nanomembranes jmcgrath@bme.rochester.edu Office: 585-273-5489 Mobile: 585-662-7668 Shipping: University of Rochester Biomedical Engineering Robert B. Goergen Hall Intercampus…
The Institute of Optics, University of Rochester University of Rochester, Rochester, NY Ph.D. Public Defense Interaction of Light with Metallized Ultrathin Silicon Membrane Krishanu Shome Advisor: Professor Philippe M. Fauchet Wednesday, February 27, 2013 Time 9:00 a.m. Place Wilmot 116 Freestanding metallized structures, a few tens of nanometer thick, show promise in creating flow-through sensors,…
Papers: Multi-Nanopore Force Spectroscopy for DNA Analysis Control of DNA Capture by Nanofluidic Transistors 2013 SingleMoleculeReview
“Dynamic Particle Manipulation in Microfluidic Devices Employing Dielectrophoresis” Dr. Blanca H. Lapizco-Encinas Associate Professor Microscale Bioseparations Laboratory Chemical and Biomedical Engineering Department Rochester Institute of Technology Tuesday, February 26, 2013 8:30 am River Campus Robert B. Goergen Hall Sloan Auditorium, Room 101
BBB On Chip (Griep et al 2012) Jascha sent me an article about a BBB device. Their device follows a very similar structure to that of the Booth and Kim paper, but closer to the optimized design that I created, using very thin, wide channels to generate a lot of shear stress (100 micron high,…
I’ve been thinking a lot about energy storage lately, and I think I’ve found a potential use for pnc-Si in Supercapacitors. What is a supercapacitor? As the name suggests, it’s a double-layer capacitor (EDLC) with very high capacitance values (1-500+ Farads) or a million times more than that of a typical dielectic capacitor. An electrolyte…