After much trial and error with the QCM (Quartz Crystal Microbalance) flow cell design, a finalized set up has been achieved! With this new set up, Lana has been able to complete her dynamic mineralization control experiments and is moving on to experiments with DNA aptamers. Hopefully, things continue to run smoothly and comparisons between the aptamers and the control experiments can be made soon!
While waiting for experiments to run, Lana likes to walk Boston in search of new restaurants, new foods, and especially new treats and desserts!
Pictured here is collagen that has been fibrilized, washed, and dried on the surface of a QCM crystal. The collagen has this amazing diffraction effect that makes these great rainbow colors. We know that all the salt has been washed away when we can see these rainbows clearly.
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