How to polish the samples which are very prone to oxidation for metallography?

I am trying to polish the rare earth based sample for SEM analysis. But the sample is getting oxidized immediately . Can anyone suggest a way to polish these kind of samples?

27 January 2021 4,699 2 View

I am trying to simulate phase change of refrigerant inside pipe extracting heat from panel in comsol. Can anyone help with how to simulate this?

My model is a rectangular multi layered structure under which refrigerant flows through cylindrical pipes. A heat flux of 600W/m2 applied on panel and internal forced convection is used for...

20 January 2021 9,478 1 View

Why does the ghost atoms gives error in NICS calculation with wb97xd in gaussian09 ?

In a trial, I am trying to calculate NICS (0 and 1) values for benzene ring using gaussian09. I have placed the ghost atoms at the center, 1A, and 2A above the rings. On using the method/basis...

19 January 2021 3,188 3 View

How do we solve optimization problems involving a maxima or minima in the objective function ?

I am trying to solve a multi-objective optimization problem using the Pyomo library in Python. The objective function includes operational optimization of an electrolyzer for hydrogen production...

11 January 2021 8,018 3 View

Rejected manuscript for journal publish after 1st revision, what needs to be done next?

Hello, My manuscript has been rejected by the editor and reviewers even after the 1st revision. Though I tend to disagree some of the points raised, assume I can't request for another revision...

28 December 2020 6,062 3 View

Acetylene reduction assay procedure?

Do anyone have the detailed step wise procedure(practical) to do the acetylene reduction assay? Or if anyone can let me know in which institute can i analyse my samples in India?

28 December 2020 6,717 2 View

Any researchers working on Mucuna pruriens with respect to tissue culture?

15 November 2020 8,675 1 View

How can I confirm that a gene is downregulated in cancer cells through PCR?

A particular gene (gene A) is reported to be downregulated in cancer cells as compared to the normal cells. How can you prove this with the help of PCR?

27 September 2020 5,292 4 View

What is the actual basis on which amount of Perovskites materials are to be taken?

In some discussion people took 112 mg of MAI and 461 mg of PbI2 in 1 mL DMF and some took 461mg of PbI2 too but 159mg of MAI there are many other authors took different amount of these materials...

17 September 2020 9,998 3 View

Forums to get online survey responses?

For my journal publish, I have been asked to increase the sample size by 200. I have been individually contacting more than 1000 Linkedin contacts and posted in all professional groups. But have...

04 September 2020 2,564 5 View

Protein-aptamer gel electrophoresis help, please??

Hi, I have problems with running gel electrophoresis. I have tried agarose gel electrophoresis and native PAGE. I have two proteins, which have molecular weights of ~30kDa and ~180kDa and two...

03 March 2021 4,275 4 View

Gel electrophoresis result for total RNA samples, 1.5 Agarose gel was used, How to improve the integrity of RNA?

Gel electrophoresis, RNA degradation, RNA extraction from fresh tissue

02 March 2021 5,433 5 View

How to regulate SSCP temperature in simple PAGE?

I'd like to perform single-strand conformation polymorphism (SSCP) in my thesis, however I cannot control the temperature of the vertical PAGE since we are using the conventional tanks. Is there a...

02 March 2021 9,157 1 View

Why are my bands weird in this Agarose gel?

Can someone please give me some possible things that could go wrong? Here is my recipe: 0.5g Agarose 50 mL of TAE 1x 1 uL ethyl bromide. Gel was run at 100V for 1 hour. The buffer used is also TAE.

01 March 2021 9,952 3 View

Precipitate after adding laemmli buffer to protein solution containing Potassium Acetate?

Hi, I am running a size exclusion chromatography experiment with a buffer containing Potassium Acetate as a salt. I analyse these fractions through SDS-PAGE. After boiling my SEC fractions in...

01 March 2021 2,622 3 View

Why my agarose gel staining sometimes looks not homogenic but like gradient (see the figure)?

I am worried about this overexposure of the upper part of the gel in the picture. Is it possible that this is the result of too much concentration of ethidium bromide? Why is there such a big...

25 February 2021 8,140 3 View

I am looking for a simple software program to model 3D chemical bonds. The purpose is to generate high-quality graphical abstracts. Any suggestion?

Hello everyone: I am looking for a simple software program to model chemical bonds. The purpose is to generate a high-quality graphical abstract for a top leading journal in the field of...

23 February 2021 8,012 3 View

My silica gel column dried can I somehoe save the trapped matter?

I tried to separate my substance from a protein in a sillica gel column. By mistake, it dried and cracked. Can I save the trapped substance? Can I repack it ,or at least elute all of the trapped...

22 February 2021 1,789 3 View

Why my Total RNA samples do not have clear two bands?

This is gel electrophoresis result for total RNA samples with good conc. However, I guess there is a problem with the purity of the samples, i can't figure out why it appears like this? And how...

22 February 2021 338 9 View

Why the nucleic acid gel melted after running for 30min?

Hi all, I proceed with nucleic acid gel electrophoresis recently several times, but a wried phenomenon is they always melted after running over 30min. My gel concentration is 1% percentage...

22 February 2021 9,896 3 View