Transparent Film Sealing

Transparent film sealing is the use of a clear adhesive or sealing film to cover laboratory vessels, plates, or culture systems while preserving visual access to their contents. The film forms a physical barrier that helps limit evaporation, contamination, and sample disturbance, while its transparency supports direct imaging and optical measurements. In cancer research, transparent film sealing can support cell culture, drug-response assays, and microscopy by helping maintain stable experimental conditions without obstructing observation. Consistent sealing improves sample handling and data reliability, particularly in workflows that require prolonged incubation, repeated imaging, or analysis of tumor cells and tissues.

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JoVE Journal - Engineering

In Situ Synthesis of Gold Nanoparticles without Aggregation in the Interlayer Space of Layered Titanate Transparent Films

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2017

Here, we present a protocol for the in situ synthesis of gold nanoparticles (AuNPs) within the interlayer space of layered titanate films without the aggregation of AuNPs. No spectral change was observed even after 4 months. The synthesized material has expected applications in catalysis, photo-catalysis, and the development of cost-effective plasmonic devices.

Fabrication of Nano-engineered Transparent Conducting Oxides by Pulsed Laser Deposition

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2013

We describe the experimental method to deposit nanostructured oxide thin films by nanosecond Pulsed Laser Deposition (PLD) in the presence of a background gas. By using this method Al-doped ZnO (AZO) films, from compact to hierarchically structured as nano-tree forests, can be deposited.

Education

JoVE Science Education - Engineering

Electroplating of Thin Films

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2023

Source: Logan G. Kiefer, Andrew R. Falkowski, and Taylor D. Sparks, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, The University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT Electroplating is a process that uses electric current to reduce dissolved metal cations so that they form a thin coating on an electrode. Other thin film deposition techniques include chemical vapor deposition (CVD), spin coating, dip coating, and sputter deposition among others. CVD uses a gas-phase precursor of the element to be...

Optimized Sealing Process and Real-Time Monitoring of Glass-to-Metal Seal Structures

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2019

Key procedures to optimize the sealing process and achieve real-time monitoring of the metal-to-glass seal (MTGS) structure are described in detail. The embedded fiber Bragg grating (FBG) sensor is designed to achieve online monitoring of temperature and high-level residual stress in the MTGS with simultaneous environmental pressure monitoring.

Fabrication of Large-area Free-standing Ultrathin Polymer Films

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2015

We describe a method for the fabrication of large-area (up to 13 cm diameter) and ultrathin (as thin as 8 nm) polymer films. Instead of using a sacrificial interlayer to delaminate the film from its substrate, we use a self-limiting surface treatment suitable for arbitrarily large areas.

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