Inducing electrostatic conductivity on polymers with high surface resistivity?

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Does anyone have information on the tolerance in different animals after i.v. administration of nitisinone?

I am interested in the safety/toxicity of NTBC administration in different animals. There is a lot of data available relating to oral administration however limited data on intravenous administration.

04 June 2024 5,628 1 View

Does the Sysmex DI-60 detect any malarial parasite in the blood? How accurate and precise can this automated machine detect malarial parasites?

According to the journal article I've posted, the Sysmex DI-60 can detect the different morphologies of the RBCs. I want to find out if the Sysmex DI-60 can detect not only the morphology of the...

18 March 2024 8,225 3 View

Why is K2 EDTA blood test tube more recommended to use in blood collection than K3 EDTA blood test tube?

The journal that was given to us stated that they recommended to use K2 EDTA blood test tubes to collect the blood samples of the patients.

06 February 2024 3,607 2 View

What are qualitative analysis approaches for combining inductive coding with an existing framework?

Has anyone got suggestions for types of qualitative analysis that combine inductive and deductive approaches? For a project I'm working on, we identified a relevant pre-existing framework about...

06 June 2023 1,444 3 View

What are the usual limitations of blood gas analysis?

I am in need of answers as to knowing the limitations of blood gas analysis for our report.

07 August 2022 5,558 6 View

How to determine whether two nonlinear regression curves are significantly different in GraphPad Prism 9.1.1?

Hello, I have data from a series of wound-healing assays which I would like to analyze for statistical significance. There is a treated group and an untreated group, and when I click "analyze"...

22 May 2021 5,677 3 View

Is a questionnaire or a likert scale best to use in a one group pretest post test quasi experimental design?

iNeed to keep it as simple as possible . I am using quota sampling and think a questionnaire might be easier to analyse than a likert . So my question is how do I analyse questionnaire and...

15 April 2021 3,392 4 View

Having a bit of trouble with this, question in the description, any help would be appreciated?

The protein concentration of a bacterial supernatant is estimated at 0.75 mg/mL. You have 1.5 L of this supernatant, and you decide to concentrate the protein by using ultrafiltration (with a...

30 March 2020 5,898 4 View

Best Concentration of Puromycin to kill untransfected 4T1 cells?

I want to conduct a Puromycin kill curve on 4T1 murine cells In Vitro. Just wondering if anyone else has conducted this before and if so at what concentration was a 100% killing of untransfected...

16 March 2020 1,747 2 View

Immortalised BALB/c derived, dendritic cell line?

Does anyone know of an immortalised BALB/c derived, dendritic cell line that is well characterised? I can only find B57 derived lines.

20 January 2020 8,493 2 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

What is the reason I get 400nm nanoparticles using an extruder with 200 nm membrane for cell membrane coating?

I am trying to coat my micelles and PLGA based nanoparticles with cell membrane using an Avanti mini extruder according to literature . I use 200nm membrane but my particles end up to be 400nm And...

30 July 2024 3,294 3 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

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

Appearance of crystallization peak in heating cycle of DSC test?

For which types of polymers, the crystallization peak in heating cycle of DSC test can be observed and for which types cant? In another word, when this exothermic crystallization can be observed...

18 July 2024 348 3 View

How can I immobilize Glutathione on to PCL electrospun nanofiber?

Dear All, I need to deposit Glutathione on to ready made PCL nanofiber composite, how can I physically immobilize? which way of incorporation do you recommend, physical deposition or...

18 July 2024 9,725 1 View

Interpreting ATR-FTIR Spectra for Microplastics Research?

Hello everyone, I am currently pursuing a PhD in Environmental Engineering with a focus on microplastic studies. My background is in Civil Engineering, and I am relatively new to working with...

18 July 2024 7,258 3 View

How do you decide an optimal AC amplitude for non-faradaic electrochemical impedance spectroscopy?

I work with planar interdigitated electrodes (IDEs). The finger width and the spacing between the fingers are 5 micron. The surface of the IDEs is coated by a non-conductive polymer layer...

16 July 2024 5,031 1 View

Why am I seeing only one initial maximum in torque-time curves for the fusion of PVC in a Brabender?

We're studying the stability and fusion behavior of multiple PVC compounds in a Brabender. After a few trials, we set the temperature at 195 °C and the rotor speed at 70 rpm. Samples differ in...

12 July 2024 2,768 1 View

How to prepare polyaniline emeraldine salt ( PANI -ES) sample for Transmission electron microscope (TEM) analysis?

I need to do TEM analysis for my Polyaniline emeraldine salt form. May I know which solvent is appropriate for preparing TEM sample?

25 June 2024 9,086 3 View

Dustin W. Janes

can you coat them in a conductive film like PEDOT:PSS

Alec McCarthy

Dustin W. Janes Im going to give it a try. Only concern is the toxicity.

Adeyinka Aina

For PLGA, you might want to try different stoichiometric combinations of the co-polymers, e.g. 50/50, 70/30, 60/40 etc, as this does affect some of its intrinsic properties.