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RM's Logbook


 * Monday, December 3, 2007**

I read over DL's e-mail regarding our final exams. I'm going to start organizing my milestones this week, and perhaps start on the initial process by the end of the week. I was planning to read the papers Dr. Sarveswaran sent me tomorrow. One has to do with the process we're investigating right now, except that it uses a different, but very similar, solution. For the rest of the period, I listed numerous milestones so that I would have a start on my final exam outline.


 * Tuesday, December 4, 2007**

I read through both of the papers that Dr. Sarveswaran sent me. I understood the paper on silicon surfaces much better than the one on DNA on mica. We haven't learned many of the terms, so I will ask her to explain that paper to me. Later today, I will be going to ND to prepare some more samples. This time, we already have cleaned silicon wafers, and all we need to do is deposit the DNA. I will probably be able to use the AFM today.

At ND, it turned out that the AFM was experiencing technical difficulties. So, as I prepared a DNA sample on mica (which took much less time), I will be able to view it on Thursday. On Thursday, we will use the AFM in the engineering building rather than in the radiation building.


 * Wednesday, December 5, 2007**

Today, I am working on my milestone report. We will have a discussion about the final exam later today.


 * Thursday, December 6, 2007**

Today, we went into the lab and took some images. Eventually, I had taken images of a plain mica surface and a plain siliocn surface. These two images are necessary for presenting the project, because it is helpful to view the sample in its different layers. Thus, now I have the plain surface, the surface with APTES, and the surface with APTES and DNA.


 * Friday, December 7, 2007**

Today, I modified my milestone map and e-mailed it to DL.

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