Confocal Video (Capillary) Microscopy with Fluorescence

帕帕多普鲁斯，Kyriakos D.，等人杜兰大学“共焦显微显微镜与荧光”的购买一个去卷积工作站，加上一些附件和软件，将使研究人员在杜兰大学化工系进行共焦显微镜和复杂的图像分析。Kyriakos Papadooulos和Kim O.Connor实验室现有的视频(毛细管)(荧光)显微镜装置已被所有参与研究人员使用，这次升级将对他们依赖显微镜的个人和联合研究项目产生重大影响。更广泛的影响：PI将利用这一收购来可视化和量化界面过程，这些过程在涉及双重乳剂、脂质体和癌细胞聚集物的药物输送方案中非常重要。此外，该设备将在开发毛细管显微镜技术方面非常有用，该技术将在高温下可视化现象，还将使量化纳米线中的发光和模拟受污染土壤的模型多孔介质中致密的非水相液体的传输成为可能。杜兰大学与泽维尔大学有着非常密切的研究和教育联系，泽维尔大学是美国南部一所主要的少数民族院校。Kyriakos Papadooulos与泽维尔物理学教授Elia Eschenazi有一个持续的合作研究项目，该项目涉及许多本科生，并已向之前在泽维尔主修化学的学生授予了三个杜兰化学工程硕士学位。此外，国际学生联合会全面参与路易斯安那州少数民族参与联盟(LAMP)，这是一项全面的全州计划，旨在大幅提高获得科学、数学、工程和技术(SMET)领域学士学位的少数族裔学生的数量和质量。在过去的两年里，Vijay John通过这个项目指导了三名学生(杜兰大学的Jonathan Hijuelos和Hendekea Azene，以及Dillard大学的Stephanie Sigers)。该项目由美国国家科学基金会向路易斯安那州拨款赞助。研究人员致力于继续他们与泽维尔的研究合作，从而为该大学的学生提供教育机会。

Papadopoulous, Kyriakos D., et alTulane University"Confocal Viedo \ (Capillary\) Microscopy with Flourscence" The acquisition of a deconvolution workstation, which, together with a number of attachments and software will enable researchers in the Department of Chemical Engineering at Tulane University to do confocal microscopy and sophisticated image analysis. Existing video (capillary) (fluorescent) microscopy setups in the laboratories of Kyriakos Papadopoulos and Kim O.Connor have been used by all participating investigators, and this upgrade will significantly impact their individual and joint research projects that rely on microscopy. Broader Impacts:The PIs will use this acquisition to visualize and quantify interfacial processes that are important in drug delivery schemes involving double emulsions, liposomes, and pheroidal aggregates of cancer cells. Additionally, the equipment will be very useful in the ability to develop a capillary microscopy technique that will visualize phenomena at high temperatures, and will also make possible the quantification of luminescence in nanowires and of transport of Dense Non-Aqueous-Phase Liquids in model porous media that simulate contaminated soils. Tulane enjoys very strong research and educational ties with Xavier University, a major minority institution in the southern United States. Kyriakos Papadopoulos has had a continuous collaborative research project with Xavier Physics Professor Elia Eschenazi, which has involved many undergraduates and which has led to three Tulane Chemical Engineering MS degrees awarded to students who had previously majored in Chemistry at Xavier. Additionally, the PI's fully participate in the Louisiana Alliance for Minority Participation (LAMP), a comprehensive, statewide program aimed at substantially increasing the number and quality of minority students earning bachelor's degrees in science, mathematics, engineering and technology (SMET) areas. In the last 2 years, Vijay John has supervised three students through this program (Jonathan Hijuelos and Hendekea Azene from Tulane, Stephanie Sigers from Dillard University). The program is sponsored through an NSF grant to the State of Louisiana. The investigators are committed to continuing their research collaboration with Xavier, thus providing educational opportunities to the students of that University.