On this page, I share some experimental protocols, codes, and miscellaneous details I encountered during my research. I believe documenting daily research activity is critical for obtaining a reproducible result.
(Note that the links are note organized well.)
Protocols for microbiology experiments (concerning bacteria only)
Weblinks on microbiology protocols
I only enlist prevalent ones, but there are many. In addition, several Youtube videos demonstrate the microbiology experiment.
Protocol for the synthesis of model colloids
Hematite nano-ellipsoids (used as model colloids for drying experiments)
Hematite micro-ellipsoids (used as model colloids for drying experiment)
Silica micro rods (used as model colloids for experiments)
Vaterite particles (spherical birefringence particles used as mirco-rotors)
Optical tweezer/holographic optical tweezer
The following references are good enough to build up the optical tweezer and the holographic optical tweezer. I find the book titled "Optical Tweezers: Principles and Applications" to be beneficial. I recommend this book to anyone who ventured into optics very recently. I also share my MATLAB codes for generating Phase Mask. This code is not very user-friendly (sorry for that), but it works.
Codes referring to the book- Optical Tweezers: Principles and applications
Codes referring to review article- Optical Tweezer Applications: A Comprehensive Tutorial from Calibration to Applications
"One picture is worth a thousand words" - by Fred R Barnard.
A pictorial representation is an essential aspect of research, allowing us to visualize the intuition we want to present. There is lovely software called POVray; it essentially allows us to show a 3D graphical view. I find it a bit difficult to start, but there are a few helpful resources:
Vendors
I enlist only a few Vendors that are popular worldwide, but there are several other vendors.
Chemical Vendor (chemical reagents) - Sigma Aldrich or Merck, Thermo Fischer
Optics Vendor (optics part) - Thor Lab, Edmund Optics, Sigma (Japan), Hollmarc (India), Herz, Newport
Electronics ( for power supply) - Kethley, Aplab (India), Key Sight, Agilent
CCD or CMOS Camera (experimental video recording) -Hamamatsu. Andor, IDS camera
Translational stages - Physics-Instrument, Marzhauser
NB: To see the details, please click the respective subheadings.