I am not sure this is the answer for your question, but please check,
http://www.nusrc.nagoya-u.ac.jp/WatanabeLab/XtalMount/index.html
We named it as a "loopless" mounting method in the paper, but now we
leave the loop...
The vacuum cleaner I have used for the method is "my mouth". But we
have just developed a semi-automatic equipment. I hope we will be able
to submit the manuscript soon.
Nobuhisa Watanabe, PhD.
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Synchrotron Radiation Research Center
Department of Biotechnology and Biomaterial Chemistry,
Graduate School of Engineering
Nagoya University
C1-3(651) Furo-cho Chikusa-ku, Nagoya 4648603 Japan
Email: nobuh...@nagoya-u.jp Fax: +81-52-789-5286
On 2009/03/27, at 4:43, Jacob Keller wrote:
Dear Crystallographers,
Has anybody ever heard of mounting crystals in tiny crystal-sized
capillaries, such as are pulled by patch-pipet machines, or those
used in microfluidics? The material could be either glass or
plastic, and one could have some method of continuous positive or
negative pressure, perhaps through a hole in the crystal cap.
Anyway, once safely inside the tiny capilary, one could freeze it at
leisure, without concern for evaporation. It would really make
harvesting easy--just vacuum up the crystal, then plop in LiqN2/
propane as per usual. I guess it could also really be done with
appropriate modification of a micro-manipulator.
Jacob
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