How is the Amphiphilicity of a polymer estimated?

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How do I calculate distance between (or precisely the mobility) of a single residue at different timeframes in the trajectory?

Hello, I hope everyone is doing great. I want to calculate distances traveled (from its initial position) by a single amino acid residue at various time frames in the trajectory. To be precise...

05 June 2018 4,205 9 View

How to prepare folic acid decorated nanoparticles for Transmission electron microscopy?

Can anyone please suggest me a way to visualize folic acid (in folic acid decorated nanoparticles) under Transmission Electron Microscopy? Any tagging methods or literature in this regards will be...

09 October 2017 1,088 6 View

How is a suitable way to prepare folic acid decorated nanoparticles for Transmission electron microscopy?

Can anyone please suggest me a way to visualize folic acid (in folic acid decorated nanoparticles) under Transmission Electron Microscopy? Any tagging methods or literature in this regards will be...

09 October 2017 7,343 4 View

Help please with MATLAB ga toolbox (Not enough input arguments)

Could someone please help me with this, I am trying to minimize a 3 variable problem, and, keep getting this error in return, "Not enough input arguments" Number of variables = 3 Upper bounds =...

06 July 2017 3,535 9 View

Ab initio modelling of polysaccharides from SAXS profiles ?

Is DAMMIF and DAMMIN in the ATSAS package offer good possibility to model SAXS scattering profiles of polysaccharides like starch? Or is is mostly suitable for just Protein modeling?

03 April 2017 7,876 4 View

Why is Olive oil specifically used for estimation of Oil Holding Capacity?

This experiment is carried out typically for fruit powder. According to a number of researchers, Olive oil is suggested for this experiment. Kindly clarify why only olive oil is preferred?

04 May 2016 4,489 4 View

What do the colors (blue, yellow, etc.) represent in birefringent images ?

I am a newbie to this. But, I regularly see that images of birefringent crystals or granules exhibit various colors. What do these colors tell us ? Does it have to do with the orientation or the...

01 February 2016 1,806 5 View

Do Candida albicans form Biofilms ?

Candida albicans are not bacteria but rather fungus but I wonder if they form biofilms since they are so difficult (maybe even impossible) to treat.

11 December 2015 5,493 3 View

How do I rank ligands based on docking scores against different proteins?

Suppose I dock 10 ligands to 5 different proteins. My goal is to say "find out the ligand with the best combination effect". I need my ligand to have maximum docking score against say Protein1 and...

08 September 2015 5,358 6 View

Can you publish a paper using a trial version of some software?

I did some molecular docking work using a 15 day trial version. Now I am confused on whether that work was any worth? Can I publish the data citing the trail software? Please advise.

01 February 2015 3,852 12 View

Adhesion strength of coating?

How can I determine a good adhesion strength range for coatings on polymer surfaces, such as DLC on polymer substrates? Is there a specific threshold for adhesion strength (from T-peel tests)...

10 August 2024 942 3 View

How to increase simulation box size?

We intend to study the interaction between peptides and polymer (like PP, PE and PS) through MD simulations using Martini force fields ( Martini 2 for PP and Martini 3 for PE, PS). We have...

08 August 2024 4,842 0 View

Why does my protein refolded to beta sheet during thermal denaturation analysis?

Hi! So i attempted to understand a novel protein behavior towards heat application by analyzing its secondary structure change. I subjected the protein to a thermal denaturation analysis using...

06 August 2024 1,989 3 View

How to heat polymer for about 130° without oil bath ?

is there any other way to heat a polymer evenly other than oil bath if so what are those and how to use it

06 August 2024 947 1 View

Polymer wear calculation?

What is the method for analytically calculating the wear and service life of polymer-polymer sliding pairs?

04 August 2024 1,078 1 View

How to explain the different interaction between soluble and insoluble polymer in water?

Hello everyone, I am try to understand the differences interaction between insoluble and soluble polymers in water with metal ions and how theit charge density (of metal ions) affect the interaction.

29 July 2024 6,350 3 View

Why is it not common to see similar pairs in polymer sliding pairs?

If the pairs are similar, will it reduce the adhesion due to electric charges?

29 July 2024 3,185 2 View

HAs anyone used TGA to find activation enegy of water evaporation?

I have different polymer solutions and I hypothesize that water molecules are retained based on the water-polymer interactions, so the amount of free water is less to intercat with drug tablet....

28 July 2024 9,545 6 View

Is it possible to manufacture polypropylene sheets using a biaxial process?

I know that films and other low-thickness laminated products are produced using biaxial orientation, but is there something similar for sheets with a thickness of around 6 mm? Or are they...

21 July 2024 1,559 1 View

What is the difference between coordination polymer, MOFs, MCOFs?

Wherever I have referred, it puts me in a dilemma about the exact differences between these. It would be really helpful if someone can put me out of this trouble.

21 July 2024 3,045 3 View