Why to use acid or base for the development of fluorescent carbon dots?

Salam all. according to the reported work in the literature, some authors used strong acid (like refluxing with HNo3) in conjugation with carbon-based precursor, while others used base such as...

11 December 2019 9,322 3 View

Full width at a half maximum (FWHM)?

Hi experts. can anyone give me some details about the advantages of FWHM? is the narrower better than wider? and why? How to explain that in a scientific way so that it can be clear for any reader...

07 August 2019 8,331 8 View

Anyone can help me to explain this graph?

Based on response surface methodology (RSM) of the design experts software, two-dimension graph were obtained. The influence of two independent variables (X1X2) on the response (QY) is shown in...

04 May 2019 8,695 4 View

Excitation-dependent/ independent emission of carbon dots?

04 May 2019 2,937 1 View

How to calculate the concentration of carbon dots based on the following details?

Hi all. According to the following mixture info., how to calculate the concentration of as-formed carbon dots (CDs). The initial amount of raw precursor = 0.05 gram. The mass of nitrogen element...

31 December 2018 4,365 0 View

Polymer carbon dots and graphene carbon quantum dots?

As we know that polymer carbon dots (PDs) and graphene carbon quantum dots (GCQDs) are two types of carbon dots (CDs). How to distinguish between them so that we can decide that our synthesized...

11 December 2018 8,012 0 View

How to confirm the existence of carboxylic (-COOH) groups ?

Based on FTIR and XPs analysis, how to confirm that the obtained carbon dots (CDs) has (-COOH). In which form these groups can present in our material where C-C, C-N, O-H, C-H, C=O, C-O and C-O-C...

07 August 2018 1,972 5 View

Free software for drawing chemical reactions?

Hi all. Can you suggest me an easy software for drawing any chemical reactions.

06 July 2018 2,363 0 View

How to calculate the concentration of the as-synthesized carbon dots?

Can any one please explain to me the easiest way to calculate the concentration of fluorescent carbon dots obtained from natural resources and added to nitrogen doping agent (N-CDs). It would be...

05 June 2018 10,055 0 View

Is the concentration of carbon dots important to calculate?

Hi all. fluorescent carbon dots (CDs) have been synthesized in solution form. the concentration is still un known as most of literature focusing on the absorbance (kept below 0.1) before...

05 June 2018 9,621 0 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

Which SAR dataset to use for generating coherency matrix and performing target decomposition (Description) ?

Working on chandrayaan-2 DFSAR data, there are three datasets available: 1) Slant range image data product: The slant range complex image file. Each pixel is represented by two 4-byte floating...

02 March 2021 8,481 3 View

Adherance of Polyaniline coating over stainless steel?

Is the electropolymerisation of polyaniline coating over stainless steel (SS) via Cyclic voltammetry technique is really adherant? Else how to improve the adhesion of the coating, whether any...

01 March 2021 8,220 2 View

How UAV or drone can be beneficial to better estimate crop yield?

As we know, crop yield estimation has been done traditionally with farmer's expert knowledge, deductive sampling in representative areas, and remote sensing with satellite imagery. Farmer's Expert...

01 March 2021 3,468 3 View

Which bacteria are suitable for quorum sensing screening?

I want to find a quorum sensing inhibitor from plant extracts. Klebsiella pneumoniae, Moraxella catarrhalis, Staphylococcus aureus, and Streptococcus pneumoniae. I looked for these strains...

01 March 2021 7,675 3 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

Glass fiber content in a gypsum board ?

Any idea on how to get the volumic ratio of glass fiber in a gypsum board ? Thank you for your help !

01 March 2021 2,501 3 View

Apart from Nanosilica and CNT's what are the other nanomaterials readily available to use in concrete mixture?

Nanotechnology in concrete materials

01 March 2021 3,379 3 View

Is there a method of determining feed digestibility without the need to re-pellet the feed?

I am aiming to determine the ADC values of a commercial fish feed, but I do not have a steam pelleter or extruder available to me. Ideally, the pellets could be coated with some inert marker....

28 February 2021 7,967 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