I am not sure this is the answer for your question, but please check,
http://www.nusrc.nagoya-u.ac.jp/WatanabeLab/XtalMount/index.html
We named it as a "loopless" mounting method in the paper, but now we
leave the loop...
The vacuum cleaner I have used for the method is "my mouth". But we
have just developed a semi-automatic equipment. I hope we will be able
to submit the manuscript soon.
Nobuhisa Watanabe, PhD.
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On 2009/03/27, at 4:43, Jacob Keller wrote:
> 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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