Bradford assay for insulin: discrepancies between standard curve and sample concentration during crystallisation?

Hi there, I would like to determine the unknown concentration of human insulin in my sample during crystallisation (the concentration range is roughly 0.5 -2 mg/ml, whereas the initial...

06 February 2021 9,370 7 View

Measuring viscosity and density under high pressure?

I need the density and viscosity of a molecular fluid under relatively high pressures, I expect something around 500 MPa. This kind of measurement is way outside my field, and I can find only very...

19 October 2020 2,812 3 View

What formula to get the number of masks needed to wear to prevent 1 infection?

Hi everyone ! I have a challenging time to crack the code in the following analysis...

27 July 2020 3,915 1 View

"Internal solution magnitude limit was exceeded". How to solve this question in Ansys Workbench?

I am modelling a foundation connection to a wind barrier. The connection is 4 prestressed bolts with an anchorage plate in the bottom, it is all cealed in a clump of concrete. When I change the...

29 October 2019 4,944 2 View

Does anyone know an easy and simple method of detecting trichloroacetic acid (TCA) and/or trifluoroacetic acid (TFA) in solution?

I am investigating electrokinetic migration of these acids across a supported liquid membrane (SLM), and need to determine their presence (if any) in the aqueous acceptor phase. I am thinking...

17 October 2018 9,594 4 View

How to add response bias into a repeated measures mixed anova model?

Hi everyone! I have a 2 repeated measures that was asked at 3 moments in time (within-subject factor). We doubled the measure to control for response bias. So the measure (likert scale) probed...

02 April 2018 2,389 3 View

Oscillating behaviour in ITC data - any explanations?

Hi, When doing ITC in our lab we have recently observed an osculating behaviour of the raw ITC data. We have tested different systems and the behaviour is the same (however, most visible with...

06 March 2018 1,117 6 View

SaOs-2 cells and lipofectamine-2000?

20 April 2016 1,781 3 View

BiFC and ImageJ threshold?

Hi, I'm currently working on the dimerization of two solute carriers. For that I'm using bi molecular fluorescence complementation. I've transfected 293FT cells attached to poly-D-lysine coated...

21 February 2016 4,440 3 View

How can I calculate functional hill numbers?

I would like to calculate the functional diversity measures proposed by Chiu & Chao (2014). The paper gives formulas for the calculation of functional hill numbers, mean functional diversity...

08 June 2015 9,731 7 View

flexibility of polymers chain

effect of double bond on the flexibility of polymers

07 April 2021 0 0 View

Formulation of polymer color flakes

I am writing to request some information for making polymer color flakes. I would appreciate the help.

17 March 2021 0 0 View

What is the production process of CaFe ferroalloys?

I looking for ferro calcium production process

03 March 2021 1,755 4 View

12% ledeburitic cold work tool steel, etched for revealing retained austenite, any help for clarifying?

Hello everyone. Given microstructure image belongs to a 12% ledeburitic cold work tool steel (annealed and tempered). The sample was etched with picral (100 mL ethanol and 4 g picric acid). I...

02 March 2021 4,119 3 View

How Can I bring as much common elements in steel as possible to calculate stable phase(s) in OpenCalphad?

As I was tweaking step-by-step OpenCalphad6 Macros step1.ocm involving phase and thermal property calculation of a High-speed steel, I could not incorporate more than 6 elements in the steel...

01 March 2021 8,840 1 View

How can you bring two structures together to create an adhesive bond in LAMMPS?

I have created an Ice 1h crystalline structure and an Aluminium substrate structure and equilibrated both at 250K. Now I need to bring them together in a way that an adhesive bond is created....

01 March 2021 3,325 2 View

What are the new 2D nanomaterials were used for Silver nanoparticles stabilization?

In the stabilization of AgNPs are vital in current research interest. However, some of the 2D nano-materials like graphene oxide, MoS2, etc... previously used to stabilize it. But still they shown...

01 March 2021 2,207 3 View

What is the density for pva electrospining?

I'm Juan Carlos, a high school student who is working with electropinning, I made an electropinning machine with a 21g needle and a 30kv high voltage source and the distance between my needle is...

28 February 2021 298 3 View

Is anyone familiar with the cyclic compressive fatigue testing (BS EN 12697 - 25) ?

I would like to get more information on the cyclic compressive fatigue testing (BS EN 12697 - 25) which is typically done for bituminous material in pavement design. Any one can advise on the...

28 February 2021 2,004 3 View

For modelling epoxy-based matrices (in composites), which model in ABAQUS is the most suitable, Concrete damaged plasticity or Drucker-Prager model?

I am working on developing a micromechanical FE model for predicting kink-band formation in UD composites. To model matrix plasticity, which model, out of Concrete Damaged Plasticity and...

28 February 2021 5,415 1 View