Are ZnS nanoparticles moisture sensitive?

Hello Everyone, I tried to form ZnS nanoparticles using the hot injection method and was able to form the same (confirmed by XRD). When I centrifuged, after the reaction I got a kind of white...

17 February 2021 1,709 3 View

Which kind of validity should e established in case we want to conduct a survey using newly developed survey questionnaire?

I am conducting a survey using self developed questionnaire. I have established its face validity and content validity. Some expert reviewer has suggested I must establish the validity by...

11 February 2021 2,077 3 View

How to calculate width and length of the tapered microstrip line feed of a SIW leaky wave antenna?

With reference to substrate integrated waveguide -leaky wave antenna

26 December 2020 3,982 2 View

Sample does no retain in the well while doing NATIVE Gel electrophoresis?

While doing NATIVE-Gel electrophoresis with electrophoresis buffer containing 25mM Tris, 192 mM glycine, and rest water if the sample being loaded is dissolved in methanol it won't remain in the...

15 December 2020 4,999 3 View

How to identify and quantify glauconite and illite/other mica present in same sample from XRD analysis?

In glauconite bearing sand stone sample other mica group minerals(illite, muscovite etc.) are also present. I want to quantify the amount of glauconite and othermica group minerals. How, I can...

10 December 2020 5,793 19 View

Collaborating VS contributing Authorship?

Can you help me to understand the significance of the difference between collaborating and contributing authorship (eg, GBD)? Do they put similar weightage to University applicant assessors?

29 October 2020 4,443 3 View

How to prevent leaks in Swagelok fittings?

I am carrying out a liquefaction reaction inside a 2.5mL volume reactor made of Swagelok fittings (one SS 3/4" STRAIGHT UNION with two SS 3/4" PLUGS FOR FITTING). After adding the substrate...

11 August 2020 4,211 2 View

How to prevent lignin condensation during biomass fractionation?

10 August 2020 4,936 1 View

How the Natural Language processing successful without knowledge of sense behind the letters and numbers ?

We don't know the source of letters and numbers on which these symbols are constructed . Although human used the guts feelings at the time of using because our ancestors developed these symbols...

01 August 2020 2,148 4 View

How to add attenuation model and spectral ordinate in R-CRISIS?

Hi Everyone I am using R-CRISIS for seismic hazard map creation. I know how to use the given attenuation model in R-CRISIS but I want to use an attenuation model from a published article. How to...

23 July 2020 5,265 1 View

Why Austenite grains in steel show much more twinning than ferrite grains?

It is oftentimes said to be a distinctive metallographic trait that differentiates a fully austenitic and a fully felly ferritic steel without etching that might distinguish between two. Why...

02 March 2021 728 2 View

Why am I not able to use all VEP programs for the in silico analysis of avpr1b SNP's?

Good day researchers I am busy analysing the predicted effects of certain SNP's in AVPR1b. When using the VEP prediction programs (SIFT, Polyphen, FATHMM, LRT, Provean, Mutation Assessor, and...

28 February 2021 5,197 1 View

What is the difference between genotype and haplotype data in the ped format?

Hi everybody In the ped format for genotype, alleles of any SNP are represented by two columns (one for each allele, separated by a space). Is a column sufficient for the haplotype to...

27 February 2021 1,965 1 View

How to replicate the well conditions of a crystal hit with 20%(w/v) isopropanol?

I had a crystal hit in a well with 0.1M HEPEs pH 7.5, 10%(w/v) PEG 4000, and 20%(w/v) isopropanol. Why is isopropanol in w/v here if it's just solvent? How do I recreate this well condition?

25 February 2021 9,761 1 View

How to search for crystal structure for material with atomic position labelled?

I am using the crystallographic open database and materials project to search for cif file but the exact structure is not mentioned or how can I deduce that the given structure and atomic position...

23 February 2021 6,723 2 View

How to generate AA6061 alloy or any aluminium alloy crystal in material studio?

I need to carry out molecular dynamics simulation on Aluminium alloy. For this i need the crystal structure that which could be further replicated to form a structure.

22 February 2021 1,410 1 View

Build an orthogonal box in ASE?

Hello, I was wondering the best way to build an orthogonal box filled with a defined crystal structure in ASE. I know it could be easily done in LAMMPS, but I guess it is also doable in ASE. The...

21 February 2021 5,899 4 View

FDC and FRC cell populations in mouse spleen?

I was trying to isolate fibroblastic reticular cells (FRC) and follicular dendritic cells from mice spleen, but kept getting poor yield. I found from literature that the frequency of FDC is around...

17 February 2021 3,506 4 View

How can I make sure that BCTC doesn't fall out of solution/form DMSO crystals when treating cells?

I resuspended my BCTC as described on the bottle at 10mg/mL in DMSO. However, I can see the formation of crystals which I can only assume are DMSO and that the drug is precipitating out of...

14 February 2021 5,633 1 View

Is there a way to tell based on appearance which protein crystal should diffract the best?

I have had unheard of success with protein crystallography lately from a super successful protein expression and purification batch. I have attained a lately reproducible vast amount of crystals...

09 February 2021 5,155 5 View