MS/PhD in which country?

I am an undergraduate pursuing my bachelor's in Materials science with specialisation in nanotechnology. I want to pursue a MS/PhD from a top university. Should I go by the QS rankings or is it...

03 April 2018 4,235 4 View

Pursue MS or PhD?

I am an undergraduate pursuing B tech in materials science with specialization in nanotechnology. I have a passion for research and innovation. I have a good research profile as an undergraduate....

03 April 2018 359 4 View

Doubts on Summer Internship Availability?

Hello everyone. I am currently in my third year of my B Tech course in Materials Sc. with specialization in nanotech. Considering I have done my second-year summer research work at IIT Bombay and...

09 October 2017 4,818 2 View

Pursue higher studies in Materials Engg/Nanotech

Dear Sir/Ma'am, I am a 2nd year B tech student curently pursuing B tech in materials sc. with spec. in nanotech from UPES,India. I want to do higher studies in materials Engg/Nanotech. Preferably...

05 June 2017 6,542 2 View

It is said that compounds having ABO3 type chemical formula have perovskite structure. So why Gafeo3 is not perovskite according to the rule?

04 May 2017 5,149 5 View

Where from sgould I study about space groups from basics?

I want to do rietveld refinement. So I am learning point group, space groups,etc. Which is the best source to learn space groups from the net from basics to advanced?

01 January 1970 1,591 5 View

Is Gallium Ferrite having a perovskite structure?

Can someone please clarify whther Gallium Ferrite(GaFeO3) has perovskite structure or not?

01 January 1970 7,371 0 View

I want to understand how thin films are being used to improve the memory storage?

I am making thin films of GaFeO3 and later on I will make thin films of ZnMgO. These films have their applications in solar cells, photodetectors, memory storage, etc.

01 January 1970 2,820 1 View

Multiferroics thin films

I want to understand the basics of multiferroic materials. I am in my 2nd year of under-graduation. I am doing a project entitled 'Characterisation and fabrication of thin films of gallium...

01 January 1970 5,839 2 View

Protein-aptamer gel electrophoresis help, please??

Hi, I have problems with running gel electrophoresis. I have tried agarose gel electrophoresis and native PAGE. I have two proteins, which have molecular weights of ~30kDa and ~180kDa and two...

03 March 2021 4,275 4 View

How do I increase the yield of my PCR product?

Hello, We would like to increase the yield of our PCR product. We are running a series of PCR reactions that is targeting ~1.1kb sequence. We begin each reaction with ~400pg of template DNA...

02 March 2021 4,029 3 View

Gel electrophoresis result for total RNA samples, 1.5 Agarose gel was used, How to improve the integrity of RNA?

Gel electrophoresis, RNA degradation, RNA extraction from fresh tissue

02 March 2021 5,433 5 View

How to regulate SSCP temperature in simple PAGE?

I'd like to perform single-strand conformation polymorphism (SSCP) in my thesis, however I cannot control the temperature of the vertical PAGE since we are using the conventional tanks. Is there a...

02 March 2021 9,157 1 View

Why are my bands weird in this Agarose gel?

Can someone please give me some possible things that could go wrong? Here is my recipe: 0.5g Agarose 50 mL of TAE 1x 1 uL ethyl bromide. Gel was run at 100V for 1 hour. The buffer used is also TAE.

01 March 2021 9,952 3 View

Precipitate after adding laemmli buffer to protein solution containing Potassium Acetate?

Hi, I am running a size exclusion chromatography experiment with a buffer containing Potassium Acetate as a salt. I analyse these fractions through SDS-PAGE. After boiling my SEC fractions in...

01 March 2021 2,622 3 View

1 nm thick MgO thin-film to be deposited on Si wafer using thermal evaporation. What will be the optimum deposition conditions?

Favourable conditions of base pressure, rate of deposition. Also, by which characterisation technique to be used to verify the thickness of the deposited film.

28 February 2021 3,640 3 View

How to compare 2 samples recruited with different sampling methods?

If I want to compare characteristics of 2 groups of patients, one group is recruited from a random sample of the general public while another group is from a sample with a fixed gender (male to...

26 February 2021 3,526 3 View

Why my agarose gel staining sometimes looks not homogenic but like gradient (see the figure)?

I am worried about this overexposure of the upper part of the gel in the picture. Is it possible that this is the result of too much concentration of ethidium bromide? Why is there such a big...

25 February 2021 8,140 3 View

How to prepare a thin polymer film by post-polymerization/crosslinking?

24 February 2021 2,362 5 View