Results

For the past semester, me and my laboratory partners have been trying to synthesize smaller nanoparticles. After searching primary information, I thought of cooking. It seems unimportant but our amazing results came after that. I made my solutions as always but this time I exposed the samples to heat. This change of heat caused a reaction and finally made our nanoparticles. There is a difference in the size of the nanoparticle as we change the time that the samples were heated. We are currently doing more research in that area so we can have a better approach and a better nanoparticle. After making the heated nanoparticles, we functionalized them with the calcium ions and then we examined them in the Spectrophotometer and in the Fluorimeter. Those results showed that there is an interaction between the nanoparticles and the calcium ions. Also, I examined the samples in the STM. I am not allowed to talk about the STM results because we are analyzing the images and the data. For the next semester they are doing IR and other studies with the nanoparticle to see how exactly the calcium interacts with the CdS nanoparticle. After that we are going to use the troponin to see if we have our biosensor or if we stiil have to make some changes.