How to study 'Long term stability' of nanoparticle ? What does it mean in biomedical application.

04 May 2017 7,186 9 View

How much minimum % cell viability must a material show so that we can call it Biocompatible material?

01 February 2015 5,118 5 View

Is it necessary to perform the high "temperature decomposition of organic precursor" method for the preparation of nanoparticles in inert atmosphere?

In all the literature researchers report the that they have done it in continuous flow of N2 gas. My doubt is in what may happen if we do that in ambient atmosphere? They add organic precursor of...

10 November 2014 8,272 8 View

Why does mesoporous material have an hysteresis loop in this adsorption-desorption N2 curve?

Please see attached.

10 November 2014 2,981 13 View

How can I do a magnetic field-assisted thermo-induced drug release study of magnetic nanocarriers?

I have some nanocarriers which have drug and superparamagnetic nanoparticles inside them. The nanocarrier is made up of a thermo responsive material. After application of an AC magnetic field, the...

10 November 2014 9,209 7 View

Can anyone suggest possible mechanisms of Ag nanoparticles synthesis by leaf extract?

Please suggest major chemical species available in the leaf extract, responsible for reduction of Ag nitrate to Ag NPs.

10 November 2014 8,539 8 View

What is basic difference between mesoporous silica SBA-15 and MCM-41?

10 November 2014 191 1 View

Which is the best method for synthesis of magnetic nano-particles for biomedical applications?

Many preparation methods are there such as coprecipitation, autocombustion, high temperature decomposition of organic precursors, reverse micelle method etc. My requirement is mono-dispersed...

10 November 2014 1,782 11 View

Can we use "pharmaceutical secondary standard" doxorubicin for loading/release study?

Can we use "pharmaceutical secondary standard" doxorubicin for loading/release from nanoparticle study? And for other biological test like MTT assay etc.

01 January 1970 2,676 2 View

How to compare two groups with only two measurements?

Hiiiii everyone! I have an enquiry on statistical analysis. I was looking for many forum and it's still cannot solve my problem. I want to compare means of two groups of data but only with two...

03 March 2021 8,796 3 View

Looking for Materials with high thermal expansion coefficient and high temperature resistance?

03 March 2021 8,272 1 View

Enhanced Yellow Fluorescent Protein (Aequorea victoria) DNA sequence?

I am on the lookout for the Enhanced Yellow Fluorescent Protein (Aequorea victoria) DNA sequence. Does anyone know where I can find it? Thank you in advance

03 March 2021 3,568 1 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

What's the best way to measure growth rates in House sparrow chicks from day 2 to day 10?

What's the best way to measure growth rates in House sparrow chicks from day 2 to day 10? Since, the growth curve from day 2 to 10 won't be like the "Logistic curve" it might not follow logistic...

03 March 2021 1,401 3 View

Do we need to write protocol for a second study of a systematic review that has been registered and published?

I have conducted and published a systematic review and meta-analysis research with the topic related to public health and health pomotion (protocol was registed in PROSPERO). Now we want to...

03 March 2021 8,920 3 View

How to increase a model accuracy ?

dear community, my model is based feature extraction from non stationary signals using discrete Wavelet Transform and then using statistical features then machine learning classifiers in order to...

03 March 2021 6,994 5 View

I need to image mesoporous silica nanoparticles that are in ~100 nm size and do high resolution TEM to look at mesopores. what grids should I use?

Need to image mesoporous silica nanoparticles using the TEM. Also, need high resolution TEM images to see the mesoporous structure. Kindly suggest what kind of grids to use. Thanks, Shatadru

02 March 2021 1,787 2 View

Do I need to do linear regression before running mediation analysis using PROCESS MACRO by Hayes ?

I just wanted to check if I need to run a linear regression separately if I am using PROCESS MACRO to run mediation analysis. Thank you.

02 March 2021 4,359 3 View

Sample dilution for quantitative analysis using ELISA?

If the detection range is in ng/ml but the reference range is in ug/ml for a molecule or protein in serum or plasma .how to dilute and what is the initial volume to be taken for quantitative analysis

02 March 2021 7,670 3 View