Daily Archives: January 5, 2012

C60 and Single Cells

Castner, Ratner et al. have just published an important paper that discriminates amongst different cell types at the single cell level. They used C60 etching to remove the overlayer junk from the lawn of cells, and principle component analysis to… Continue reading

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Lipids and SIMS

There is a nice review article (DOI: 10.1021/ac203126f) summarizing many of the most important techniques for characterizing phospholipid films on solid supports. The SIMS technique gets some nice press with the following statement: “Imaging mass spectrometry allows label-free detection of… Continue reading

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