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Fabrication of colloidal crystals featuring sub-20 nm pore size for protein separation
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- Author / Creator
- Malekpourkoupaei, Ali
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Clinical point-of-care (POC) diagnosis remains an open and challenging field of
research worldwide in which the study of the mechanism and dynamics of protein
molecule separation using electrophoresis is of considerable interest.
The quality of a protein separation is strongly dependent on the separating matrix
and conditions under which the electrophoresis is performed. This research is
mainly focused on development of a novel separation matrix, based upon the selfassembly
of particles in a colloidal suspension, within a microfluidic chip.
Several challenges were overcome in developing crystalline particle arrays that
generate a porous material with pores smaller than 20 nm. The effect of pore size
on separation of proteins of differing molecular weight and size was then studied,
and the mechanism of separation, which appears to change in the smallest size
range, was explored. -
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- Graduation date
- Fall 2012
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- Type of Item
- Thesis
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- Degree
- Master of Science
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- License
- This thesis is made available by the University of Alberta Libraries with permission of the copyright owner solely for non-commercial purposes. This thesis, or any portion thereof, may not otherwise be copied or reproduced without the written consent of the copyright owner, except to the extent permitted by Canadian copyright law.