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Purchase of PDMS.

The purpose of CEM is to understand how cable bacteria works. Cable bacteria are a group of centimetre-long filamentous bacteria with a hitherto unknown form of metabolism based on internal electric wires connecting thousands of cells. As such they provide many new challenges and opportunities for experimental studies. One of the major experimental technologies we plan to establish is an assortment of PDMS / glass chips where we can combine microfluidics, electrochemistry, sensor technology and microscopy to nurture, observe, manipulate, and analyse single cable bacteria and their associates.

The purpose of CEM is to understand how cable bacteria works. Cable bacteria are a group of centimetre-long filamentous bacteria with a hitherto unknown form of metabolism based on internal electric wires connecting thousands of cells. As such they provide many new challenges and opportunities for experimental studies. One of the major experimental technologies we plan to establish is an assortment of PDMS / glass chips where we can combine microfluidics, electrochemistry, sensor technology and microscopy to nurture, observe, manipulate, and analyse single cable bacteria and their associates.

PDMS chip technology will be new in our laboratories and chip designs for the numerous, planned applications will have to be developed by many users in rapid iterative trial-and-error processes. Therefore we need a flexible platform with fast and seamless processing from design to application. Conventional PDMS chip fabrication, however, relies on tedious and expensive clean-room technology and/or out-of-house services and is generally designed for mass production. Being far away from having our cable bacteria in pure culture in defined media we do not even need clean-room. What we need specifically is a a spin coater, an UV lamp, and a programmable hot plate for SU8 mold fabrication, a dessicator, plasma cleaner, and an oven for PDMS fabrication, a vacuum pump, an air compressor, and accessories in the form of chemicals, tools, disposables, fittings, and connectors.

Besides searching the market we have also screened relevant scientific papers and discussed various options with fellow researchers and with company agents at conference booths. In conclusion and to our best knowledge, Blackhole Lab, is indeed, as they claim, the only provider of a turnkey solution for rapid in-house development and fabrication of PDMS chips for experimental microbiological research without the need of clean room. We also found the price acceptable considering the individual components and the guaranteed synergy. Blackhole Lab is a turnkey subsidiary of Elveflow.

The purpose of CEM is to understand how cable bacteria works. Cable bacteria are a group of centimetre-long filamentous bacteria with a hitherto unknown form of metabolism based on internal electric wires connecting thousands of cells. As such they provide many new challenges and opportunities for experimental studies. One of the major experimental technologies we plan to establish is an assortment of PDMS / glass chips where we can combine microfluidics, electrochemistry, sensor technology and microscopy to nurture, observe, manipulate, and analyse single cable bacteria and their associates.

PDMS chip technology will be new in our laboratories and chip designs for the numerous, planned applications will have to be developed by many users in rapid iterative trial-and-error processes. Therefore we need a flexible platform with fast and seamless processing from design to application. Conventional PDMS chip fabrication, however, relies on tedious and expensive clean-room technology and/or out-of-house services and is generally designed for mass production. Being far away from having our cable bacteria in pure culture in defined media we do not even need clean-room. What we need specifically is a a spin coater, an UV lamp, and a programmable hot plate for SU8 mold fabrication, a dessicator, plasma cleaner, and an oven for PDMS fabrication, a vacuum pump, an air compressor, and accessories in the form of chemicals, tools, disposables, fittings, and connectors.

Besides searching the market we have also screened relevant scientific papers and discussed various options with fellow researchers and with company agents at conference booths. In conclusion and to our best knowledge, Blackhole Lab, is indeed, as they claim, the only provider of a turnkey solution for rapid in-house development and fabrication of PDMS chips for experimental microbiological research without the need of clean room. We also found the price acceptable considering the individual components and the guaranteed synergy. Blackhole Lab is a turnkey subsidiary of Elveflow.

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