[sudo-discuss] [CCLmembers] New Project Nano-materials

[Leticia Menchaca]

Hi Patrick,

A brainstorming session is a great idea! Can you please put it in your
meetup?

No fume hood or any of the sort would be needed, at least not until the
vacuum deposition system is built and functioning.   Chemical etching is
not what I have in mind.

The project of building the vacuum system takes a lot of good building
skills. We are dealing with high voltage, cooling systems, vacuums, turbo,
cryo, etc.  and also machining parts and install sensors and other
electrical gadgets, motors, rotors, detectors, etc.

I wonder if Sudo (?) group would be inclined to collaborate in this kind of
project.
As for the bio aspect, we would use the same protein expression methods you
at CCL are already using.



On Tue, Feb 28, 2017 at 4:51 PM, Patrik D'haeseleer <patrikd at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi Leticia,
>
> Sounds like a fun project! One possible limitation might be that we don't
> have a chemical fume hood at CCL - only an internally vented, HEPA filtered
> biosafety cabinet. We're not opposed to getting a fume hood, but it would
> be up to you to figure out all the regulatory requirements, including
> effect on building codes, issues around venting chemicals in a residential
> zone, etc.
>
> If you don't need a chemical hood for what you have in mind, that
> simplifies things significantly. If you just want to recruit a larger group
> of people interesting in working on this, I would recommend that you and
> your friends organize an informal talk or brainstorming session on the
> topic. We'll put it on our Meetup, and we'll see how many people are
> interested...
>
> Patrik
>
> On Tue, Feb 28, 2017 at 1:56 PM, Leticia Menchaca <lbmenchaca at berkeley.edu
> > wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> Hi,
>> I am requesting your input on this idea since I have no experience
>> working in a collective way.
>> I want to build a Magnetron Sputtering  Vacuum Deposition System to
>> produce thin films, ultra thin films, and nanoparticles.
>> I am interested in working at the interface of materials science and
>> bioengineering.
>> My particular interest is exploring nano-materials for enhanced raman
>> spectra signaling - including bio-engineering for enhanced fluorescence-emf
>> detection.
>> However, other subjects also interest me, such as the toxic effects of
>> micro and nano-materials and how these materials interact with organisms,
>> cells and biological processes in general.
>>
>>
>> Building a thin film deposition system is a challenge but can be
>> extremely interesting.
>> This kind of equipment is very costly and only some very lucky people
>> have access to learning how they are built and how they operate.
>> This is because the magnetron sputtering chambers are used in the private
>> industry only by trained and skilled personnel. In universities and
>> technical colleges, only experts and selected talented students get access
>> to these machines while working on their thesis projects.
>>
>> In YouTube I have watched people building their own vacuum chambers,
>> rather crude, o.k. for hobby but not likely to work for producing
>> nano-materials with real-life applications (sorry for being so critical).
>> I am contemplating working on building a system using your Collective
>> model.
>> However, I have never worked in an open group setting and I wonder if
>> this would be a realistic expectation and if there would be any interest at
>> all!
>> Although I am not alone. There are five of us in my group, we are people
>> with similar interests living and working in Berkeley with limited free
>> time to work on our own projects, since we have day jobs at UCB.
>> Only one of us has actually built such equipment before. The rest in our
>> group only have used the equipment and/or has worked on experiments using
>> nano-materials, mainly plants.
>>
>> I look forward to your input.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Leticia Menchaca
>>
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