What could be some reasons why unstimulated monocytes are getting activated?

Im doing PBMC isolation -> CD14+ enrichment using magnetic beads -> stimulation setup. My negative control is just cells in cRPMI but they seem to get activated over and over again.

28 February 2021 7,883 3 View

How to increase the adhesion of electrospinned nano fiber's?

Hi i was trying to deposit the polystyrene nano fibers on aluminum substrate... Can anyone help me how to enhance the nano fiber's adhesion to the substrate? Like annealing pr vacuum drying ? Any...

16 November 2020 1,735 7 View

Regarding COMSOL simple solid mechanics: Please help me out?

Q1. when I strain a soft and hard material together under a force suppose 50 N and then strain under 0.5 N. the strain value does not change much? how is this happening? as in the real world, the...

09 July 2020 9,506 8 View

Can I measure the Work Function of a thin film for amorphous material using XPS?

I want to measure the work function of amorphous ALD grown Al2O3 film deposited on FTO coated Glass. Is it possible to measure the work function using XPS? I have seen several papers using UPS,...

24 May 2020 7,637 15 View

Why should I join some research society?

there are ample societies like MRSI, AAAS, RSC,ASME,SCIE etc etc.. why should I join these societies paying a large sum of money. I paid some money during my PhD and I couldn't find any benefits....

12 February 2020 5,358 4 View

What is the maximum RMS current for GEIS that I can use for testing commercial 18650 batteries of capacities from 1 Ah to 3.3 Ah?

In order to obtain EIS results on commercial batteries of capacities from 1 Ah to 3.3 Ah batteries, what is the max RMS current that should be used in galvanostatic mode? I am using Versastat...

28 May 2019 2,165 5 View

Under which conditions poling depletes the performance of Piezoelectric material?

i have poled the ZnO sample ranging from 1kV to 10 kV. however, my piezoelectric performance decreased in all the cases. any reference where poling have reduced the performance are highly anticipated

28 May 2018 7,262 3 View

Can somebody thorow some light on this configuration of PE loop??

Graph (a) is intrinsic ZnO. Graph (b) is Doped ZnO in 1% graph (c) is doped ZnO 2.5% graph (d) is doped ZNO 5%. intrinsic shows pure resistive behavior however after doping Resistive changes to...

29 November 2017 10,014 12 View

The mixture was precipitated in methanol to get powder? what does it mean

I am not from chemistry background. Does it mean it was filtered by Methanol using a simple filter paper and pouring down methanol and then collecting the filterate!!! please give your suggestions

27 June 2017 7,182 4 View

If I add a built-in material to COMSOL, it asks me to input the elasticity matrix, coupling matrix and relative permittivity? Where can I get it?

Simple materials like Aluminium, steel, air etc. the software asks me to input the above details? What could be the problem as some videos show that for built in materials you need not enter any data?

17 February 2015 5,813 4 View

MD MOE RMSD

How to calculate the RMSD values for a MD simulation using MOE?

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MD MOE RMSD

How to calculate the RMSD values for a MD simulation using MOE?

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fatal error

When I tried to energy minimization my system, I got fatal error as below. Fatal error: Atomtype opls_116 not found Although I've already added this line: ; include water #include "oplsaa.ff/spc.itp" to [molecultype] directive in my topology.

16 June 2021 0 0 View

fatal error

When I tried to energy minimization my system, I got fatal error as below. Fatal error: Atomtype opls_116 not found Although I've already added this line: ; include water #include "oplsaa.ff/spc.itp" to [molecultype] directive in my topology.

16 June 2021 0 0 View

fatal error

When I tried to energy minimization my system, I got fatal error as below. Fatal error: Atomtype opls_116 not found Although I've already added this line: ; include water #include "oplsaa.ff/spc.itp" to [molecultype] directive in my topology.

16 June 2021 0 0 View

fatal error

When I tried to energy minimization my system, I got fatal error as below. Fatal error: Atomtype opls_116 not found Although I've already added this line: ; include water #include "oplsaa.ff/spc.itp" to [molecultype] directive in my topology.

16 June 2021 0 0 View

What kind of fluid could I use for a pitfall trap that also does not invalidate molecular testing?

Hi, I want to start testing pitfall trap to obtain ants samples, but I need to conduct molecular analysis on those insects. So, what kind of fluid can I use? Ethanol expires too early and I need...

03 March 2021 5,978 5 View

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02 March 2021 3,060 3 View

How to normalise data on OPM package from R Studio ?

Good afternoon, I recently used OmniLog from BIOLOG for my experimentations : I tested the metabolism of different strains on 2 types of plates. I have 16 strains of 3 different groups...

02 March 2021 3,584 1 View

How to repeat an operation on an atom selection for multiple times in PyMol?

Hi, I am trying to construct a multi-layer fibril structure from a single layer in PyMol by translating the layer along the fibril axis. For now, I am able to use the Translate command in PyMol...

02 March 2021 4,569 4 View