Can someone tell me how to find MIC value for zinc oxide?

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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....

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How to raise temperature in small increments during equilibration in LAMMPS?

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Can anyone please suggest where I can find a reference for ReaxFF parameters for PTFE(Teflon) suitable for use in LAMMPS?

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Should the Ice 1h crystalline structure be lost during equilibration process in LAMMPS?

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Mariana Ferdes

The disc diffusion method is not recommended. You can try a mixture of many concentrations of ZnO with specifiic culture media in Petri dishes or in tubes inoculated with the microorganism test. For each variant you must detect the microbial growth.

Abhay Suresh Zambare

@ Maria Ferdes Thank you madam very much !!!