How to modify Al2O3 surface to make it hydrophobic?

Dear Scientists, I am going to disperse Al2O3 with synthetic oil (hydrophobic). Therefore how to modify Al2O3's surface to it stable in the lubricant? thank you very much. Best regards, Agus.

25 August 2020 4,485 3 View

How to determine atom% from weight% as shown in Maud Crystallographic Software ?

My understanding is atom% can be obtained from weight% by dividing all latter values by the appropriate atomic weights and normalizing their sum to unity. However, I am having a difficulty in...

17 June 2020 5,309 5 View

Why DNA plasmid have to dry after wash by ethanol??

09 September 2017 7,373 4 View

Nitrification vs mineral concentration

Is nitrification directly affected by major minerals (Ca, Mg, K, Na) concentration in water? Does the nitrifying bacteria need these minerals significantly?

09 August 2017 2,095 3 View

Why should I use a reversed column for better peak in HPLC?

27 March 2015 8,813 3 View

How can I determine the stability of biosurfactant based on the emulsion activity test?

I have done a test of emulsion activity (and surface tension) to characterize the biosurfactant produced by bacteria. The emulsion activity reduced after 24 hours, but no more than 10%. How can I...

08 August 2014 9,155 9 View

Co-Immunoprecipitation problem - Can anyone lend their expertise?

I want to purify a protein complex with co-IP kit (Thermo-Pierce, resin column), but, at the end, I could neither elute enough specific protein nor visualise by WB using antibody against...

03 August 2014 6,377 6 View

Determination of Ginkgolide A and B using HPLC

Can anyone suggest a suitable solvent system in HPLC (using column of Licrhospher 100 RP-18 5um, Merck, Darmstadt, Germany) to determine Ginkgolide A and B ?

28 November 2012 4,169 18 View

Can you explain how to develop a good questionnaire?

A questionnaire is an instrument usually used in survey research. How to make a good questionnaire so that it can provide us the best results (valid, reliable) to our study?

12 September 2012 3,699 1 View

Murashige and Tucker Media for making callus

I am conducting callus induction using Murashige & Skoog (MS) and Murashige & Tucker (MT) media. I need information about all of the material and composition to make MT media. Can anyone...

19 July 2012 4,842 2 View

What are the most reliable approaches to extract key continuous frames from a video, with complete automation?

I have an input video, of skin (from a microscope that means it is magnified such that blood capillaries are visible). The idea is to extract 15 sec of continuous frames from a video of 1 min,...

02 March 2021 2,735 2 View

How can extract ciprofloxacin hydrochloride disolve in water er to organic solvent such as dichloromethan or any other solvent?

I need a procedure to extract the ciprofloxacin hydrochloride from aqueous solution by using dichloromethane in detail,. I thank you very much.

01 March 2021 4,306 1 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

How to perform statistical analysis of coefficients extracted from transform techniques?

I am studying the potential of DCT and FFT coefficients extracted from a signal to classify the different objects that emit the signal. I applied the Shapiro-Wilk to confirm that data was not...

01 March 2021 8,079 2 View

How to remove fatty material from plant extract?

The resultant solid was partitioned three times with 250 ml of petroleum ether (40-60/c) to remove any fatty material and evaporated to dryness.

28 February 2021 9,464 2 View

Can water be extracted from Olivine?

I have always been interested in geology and wondered about how unique structures of materials behave in different circumstances. I stumbled upon Olivine, the magnesium iron silicate, and heard...

28 February 2021 7,330 4 View

How to make fractions of chloroform extract of plant, using seperating funnel?

28 February 2021 8,466 2 View

Good morning research fellows, Has anyone worked with senna alata plant extract on any kind of fish?

Literatures on the piscicidal effect of sennaa alata is scanty. if you have any related litrature either in the bark, leaves or roots used as treatment to any aquatic organism please kindly help...

28 February 2021 9,138 2 View

How to arrange coordinates and extract climate dataset out of MPI-ESM-MR netcdf files?

Have a nice day everyone, I'm stuck in extracting datasets out of MPI-ESM-MR netcdf files because the latitude ranges from -3*10^6 to 3*10^6 and longitude ranges -5,9*10^6 to 5,9*10^6. Plus, the...

28 February 2021 912 3 View

What is the most suitable resuspension buffer for TCA/acetone precipitated protein?

I need to extract protein from fermented carbon sources for Bradford assay. Most researchers experiencing insolubility of pellet in resuspension buffer. Please assist me to select most suitable...

26 February 2021 7,129 3 View