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Dear Crystallographers,
Has anybody ever heard of mounting crystals in tiny
crystal-sized capillaries, such as are pulled by patch-pipet machines, or those
used in microfluidics? The material could be either glass or plastic, and one
could have some method of continuous positive or negative pressure, perhaps
through a hole in the crystal cap. Anyway, once safely inside the tiny capilary,
one could freeze it at leisure, without concern for evaporation. It would really
make harvesting easy--just vacuum up the crystal, then plop in LiqN2/propane as
per usual. I guess it could also really be done with appropriate modification of
a micro-manipulator.
Jacob
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Jacob Pearson
Keller
Northwestern University
Medical Scientist Training
Program
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