RM's+Week+of+January+28,+2008

RM's Logbook


 * Monday, January 28, 2008**

I e-mailed the Duke professor, and he responded very promptly. I had read his article "Autonomous Programmable Biomolecular Devices using Self-Assembled DNA Nanostructures." The article was very interesting (although I didn't understand it all), telling how scientists use algorithmic functions to make DNA nanostructures. Their methods just seemed to be so focused and directed that I thought that it may be good to adopt and perhaps explore them further.

Anyway, tomorrow, I am going into the lab. For the rest of the period, I will read the particle physics book and take notes.


 * Tuesday, January 29, 2008**

Today was a very fruitful day in the lab at ND. I left school early, as I usually do on Thursdays. I applied a DNA solution to the plain APTES on silicon and let the solution sit for 15 minutes. Then, I rinsed the sample with 18 mega ohm water, dried it with nitrogen gas, and viewed the sample under the AFM. I set up the AFM and took about 15 images. I stored them in the computer. Next time, I'll apply the DNA solution to the ethanol and APTES soaked slides.


 * Wednesday, January 30, 2008**

We had no school today, but the Federal Reserve lowered the federal funds rate to 3.0%! This was expected by the markets.


 * Thursday, January 31, 2008**

I am reading the next section of the particle physics book and taking notes. I am also catching up on updating my logbook.


 * Friday, February 1, 2008**

We had no school today (another snow day), but I read a couple more chapters of the particle physics book and took notes.

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