User:M Jaffe/Notebook/Maxis Protease Lab 471/2015/09/02
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Objective
XXX ProcedureTarget Concentrations Based on the total reaction volume that the class will be using and the final concentrations that will be in each reaction volume, I have determined that the following HAuCl4·H2O and Lysozyme masses are appropriate for today's stock solutions. Stock solutions
Actual Concentrations The actual masses are different from the target masses. The concentrations shown below reflect the actual concentrations made for the stock solutions. I used a 50 mL volumetric flask to make the gold stock solution and a 100 mL volumetric flask to make the protein solution. In each case I used HPLC-grade water. Stock solutions
Directions for making samples Note: The final concentration of gold should be 0.25 mM and the final concentration of lysozyme should be 5.556 μM. This gives a Au:lysozyme ratio of 45, which should yield fibers. We prepared 16 # 1 mL samples
We prepared 10 # 5 mL samples
We placed the 16, 1 mL samples and the 10, 5 mL into the oven at 80 degrees Celsius for 4 hours. DataSomething must have gone wrong because none of our samples created fibers. We only made nanoparticles. Most likely, the ratio between the protein and the gold was off, which resulted in AuNPs instead of AuNP Fibers. |