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nanoCET patent granted
Our patent application for the Nanocapillary Electrokinetic Tracking method has been officially granted by the United States Patent office. This technology is currently being commercialized by a spin-off company, Dispertech BV. …
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Spin-off company
Together with Aquiles Carattino and Nascent Ventures, we recieved a take-off grant for characterization of nanoparticles in solution. …
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Summer-in-lab in Oxford
For the past two month, Sanli visited Philipp Kukura’s group at the department of Chemistry in Oxford. This was an opportunity created by the superb hospitality of Philipp and his group members. For Sanli, spending most of his time in the lab and getting my hands busy with some of the most sensitive optical microscopes in the world was a remarkable experience. We are no strangers to sensitive microscopes, but the iSCAMS technology, with its unique combination of sensitivity and ease of operation, is a real breakthrough. …
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Four undergraduate projects start today
Four new projects related to various aspects of electrokinetic tracking will start today. Lorenzo Peres is going to make a microfluidic channel with embedded electrodes. This channel hopefully allows him to measure surface charge of the channel as function of flow. Peter Speets will also use a similar channel to study growth and shrinkage of protein aggregates using nanoparticle tracking and resonant light scattering. Milo Colaris will use an acoustic levitator to measure the viscosity of a floating droplet of a suspension as it dries. The method he develps will be later applied to very small droplets trapped with an optical tweezers. …