Polymer synthesis simulation - which software?

Hello, I am a synthetic polymer chemist. I would like to explore the simulation counterpart of my experimental work. Can anyone suggest a good software able to simulate polymerization reactions,...

04 February 2021 2,672 4 View

Error when simulate casting process with Procast software?

I am trying to simulate the casting process of a part with the Procast software. I have the following problem. When I want to run, I run into an error as you see in the picture above. Does anyone...

20 January 2021 2,544 2 View

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26 December 2020 1,951 3 View

Having issues understanding the particles/mL to molarity conversion, I've seen many different way but non of them seem to match one an the other?

I have 68nm spherical Au NPs, which gave me a concentration of 1.22 x 10^9 particles/mL. How can I calculate the molarity without the need for TEM?

22 November 2020 8,850 3 View

Any method to dye shells for photography without deteriorating them?

Hi, I need to dye bivalves to bring out the details of the shell and to be able to take good photos. I have heard that there is a gaseous compound that allows this and doesn't damage the samples,...

27 September 2020 1,864 4 View

Spatial PCA: How to interpret the amount of variance explained by each principal component?

Hey everyone, I hope someone can help me. Please! I've carried out a spatial PCA using the adegenet package in R, following Dr. Jombart's tutorial (i.e. NAs in data replaced to mean allele...

16 September 2020 952 4 View

How to solve xleap error?

It's the first time for me that I try to use ambertools, I installed AmberTools20 with conda (miniconda) now I don't understand how to load a PDB file in xleap I keep getting the same error, the...

16 August 2020 7,815 2 View

Reference style "Games for Health Journal"?

Does anybody knows if there is a reference style in Mendeley for "Games for Health Journal" ISSN 21617856, 2161783X?

09 July 2020 8,151 1 View

Machine learning methods for dynamical systems?

I am comparing different machine learning techniques for learning dynamical systems (e.g. a system of ordinary differential equations), and so far I've used Long-Short-Term Memory Networks (LSTM)...

29 June 2020 3,633 5 View

Negative UV-VIS value in gold nanorods?

Hi! I was synthesizing some gold nanorods. What's interesting is, that in one of my trials a negative value in the UV-VIS (around 630nm) was obtained. How is that possible? Also, it was done by...

20 April 2020 9,570 5 View

Isolates of Hymenoscyphus fraxineus?

Dear Dr. Cai, my name is Simone Prospero and I work in the team of Phytopathology at the Swiss Federal Institute for Forest Snow and Landscape Research (WSL;...

01 March 2021 1,133 1 View

How to remove the residual PDMS on the silicon mold?

Incompletely cross-linked pdms are difficult to remove.

01 March 2021 798 3 View

The reason that the culture of white fungi Contamination with green mold(Trichoderma), the culture autoclave at121 for 15 min. What is it?

Is the period to autoclave not enough? The inoculation in a hood and flame and UV and alcohol.

27 February 2021 9,356 3 View

Is there anyone who experienced with cytotoxic effect of Hoescht 33342 dye?

Is Hoechst toxic to cells? In general, it is known as non-toxic. I am working with dsRED MDA-MB-231 cell line. I applied it for my PDMS-based microfluidic platform, for this reason, I incubated...

26 February 2021 9,119 3 View

What is the most suitable medium of ascomycetes fungi ??

What is the most suitable medium of ascomycetes fungi ??

26 February 2021 4,413 1 View

Has anyone used the Illumina ITS1 primer sets?

Hi everyone, Illumina provides a list of primers to amplify with high taxonomic coverage the ITS1 region for further fungal sequencing, but I cannot find the exact amount necessary of each...

25 February 2021 6,969 3 View

Does anyone have any ideas why drug-resistant malaria is increasing in Southeast Asia even when those drugs are no longer used?

When dealing with bacterial toxins, there are three varieties of microbes that develop in your petri dish: toxic, resistant, and susceptible. Initially, there are only toxic and vulnerable...

21 February 2021 6,084 5 View

How to dilute Toxin-DMSO solution?

I have a concentrated solution of a toxin(50 micromolar) in DMSO 100%. I need to dilute it inorder to dilute both the toxin and DMSO wich can be toxic to cells. Which would you guys recommend to...

19 February 2021 7,447 2 View

Can 5-FOA Diffuse Through Agar?

I am preparing to do a gene knockout in the filamentous fungi Coccidioides posadasii targeting pyrG/URA3 so that 5-FOA can be used for selection pressure instead of traditional antibiotic...

16 February 2021 169 4 View

Any specific reason, how sclerotium rolfsii can grow out of Petridish?

Is it related to nutrition or any other reason? Any other fungus have similar kind of growth pattern?

09 February 2021 4,357 4 View