I need to accelerate corrosion in steel parts that are used in a salt-water environment. Is there a technique for doing so?

I have a structure that employs d-ring swiveling tie-downs that corrode during use and become "frozen". I have sample swivel assemblies that I wish to corrode to see if I can free them using one...

01 March 2021 3,739 3 View

Where to find data on trees in tropical agroforestry?

Hi, I'm looking for data (mainly related to management: growth rate, canopy size, soil and climate preferences, etc.) about tropical trees used in tropical agroforestry. Have you ever heard about...

28 February 2021 7,356 8 View

Does anyone ever solved this following Matlab error : "Error using imaqdevice/start (line 95) pointgrey: Failed to stop the camera acquisition." ?

I use Matlab 2014b to capture some images with a PointGrey camera connected with USB3 port. I initialize the camera in a function which basically execute these followed lines : vid =...

22 February 2021 6,386 1 View

Making my research papers available for readers?

17 February 2021 8,533 2 View

3T3-L1 cells, is this a bacterial contamination or a cross contamination with different cell line? or something else?

Hi, I am experiencing some difficulties with 3T3-L1 cells culturing recently. I am working with 3T3-L1 cells for almost 4 years now and have seen bacterial contaminations/ unhealthy cells and...

13 February 2021 4,040 3 View

What are the main conditions suited for synthesizing a PVDF thin film by solvent casting method?

I have been trying to synthesize PVDF thin film by solvent casting method. I started by using 2:3 DMSO: acetone as solvents. The solution was stirred for 3hrs at 60 deg and was dried at 90 degrees...

09 February 2021 8,850 3 View

Wave velocity and rock density paradox?

Practically it is known that seismic velocity increases as rock density increases, why then does the wave velocity equation involving elastic moduli and density indicate that velocity is inversely...

09 February 2021 1,843 3 View

What is the magnitude of yearly rhizopdeposition in tropical forests?

Hi all, I am trying to find reference values on annual soil rhizodeposition rates for different kinds of forests, with a particular interest for tropical rainforests. Do we have an idea of the...

26 January 2021 4,278 4 View

Recipe for old qiagen DNA extraction buffer AP2?

Hi there, I'm looking for the recipe for a buffer no longer made by qiagen, but that i need for a procedure i'd like to carry out. I'd like to follow the extraction procedure laid out in the...

17 January 2021 8,496 1 View

Will an electromagnet core be as efficient if it is made of several pieces?

If you had a design for an electromagnet core that required it to be assembled out of several parts would it still produce as strong a magnetic field as the same core but made out of a single...

17 January 2021 5,821 3 View

How optimize the Size Exclusion Chromatography?

Hello! I'll do a size exclusion chromatography, but I only have an open column, and I'll perform the peptide extraction from yeast, using buffer lysis (sodium phosphate 50 mM/NaCl 30 mM/DNAse and...

01 March 2021 2,215 2 View

How to determinate of molecular structure of salt into the liquid?

I need to determine the open formula of our complex, presumably consisting of sodium tungstate Na2WO4 and aluminum sulfate Al2 (SO4) 3. Our problem is that with an increase in the concentration...

11 February 2021 5,821 1 View

Phosphate buffer with different pH conditions: HCl or NaH2PO4?

Hi all, I just encountered this dogma; when adjusting pH of phosphate buffers, I've been using HCl/NaOH to in/decrease pH of buffers and recently I was told that HCl/NaOH can't be used to adjust...

08 February 2021 9,070 5 View

Why FTIR can not detect bases of nucleic acid in extracellular polymeric substances (EPS)?

I characterized functional groups of EPS using FTIR. Goups of sugars and proteins (e.g., -OH, amide, -COOH) as well as phosphate group of nucleic acid were readily detected. However, peaks of...

05 February 2021 4,405 1 View

Why sometimes current- voltage plot in chemiresistors/ FET does not pass through the origin?

I am trying to measure resistance from I-V curve from a chemiresistor/ FET sensor with a keithly sourcemeter. The substrate is soaked/ wet with protein and phosphate buffer only. But the I-V line...

24 January 2021 8,009 3 View

Anionic sulfate complexes of rare earth elements, are they real?

Can you please tell me if there are anionic sulfate complexes of rare earth elements? And, if so, can you advise sources where you could read about it. Thank you!

17 January 2021 8,812 2 View

How to make a 100mM potassium phosphate buffer at pH 2.5?

Do I just need to add my basic and acidic potassium phosphates to get the lowest pH achieved by mixing those (I think it is around pH 5.8), and then lower the pH further through addition of HCl?...

06 January 2021 7,231 2 View

Can total phosphate (TP) in soil be determined with UV-Vis Spectrophotometer?

Dear All, I would like to know if total phosphate (TP) and total nitrogen (TN) in soil can be determined with UV-Vis spectrophotometer or not. If somebody knows the method, I would like to get...

03 January 2021 7,662 6 View

How to measure both Sulfites and Sulfates Ions In water?

Could you please help me to know a very simple method to measure the amount of Sulfite (SO3) and Sulfate (SO4) ions in the water? (titration preferred)

27 December 2020 9,350 4 View

In ELISA should we use p-nitrophenyl phosphate (pNPP) substrate mixed in distilled water or we should mix it in Diethanolamine buffer?

We are performing an ELISA experiment to determine the binding of Complement antibodies against P. aeruginosa. We have pNPP substrate (Thermo Scientific cat # 34045) instead of pNPP tablets. We...

22 December 2020 2,020 3 View