Thickness of Cysteine layer is highly variable #13
Description
Our method of painting on the cysteine results in visibly non-isotropic distributions of cysteine on the surface. Ideally, we would have a deposition method which we could control the thickness on the scale of 10s of nm.
One way to do this would be with physical vapor deposition. Keith Foreman built a chamber to do this for his thesis, and I had some conversations with him about using it to deposit cysteine. He was very supportive- as well as Shireen.
Dr. Gay mentioned that he was looking for things that Keith could do over the summer. If we could have Keith collaborate on growing variable depth cysteine surfaces, I think this would be a great use of Keith's skills that also contributes to the research that we want to do.