How can you bring two structures together to create an adhesive bond in LAMMPS?

I have created an Ice 1h crystalline structure and an Aluminium substrate structure and equilibrated both at 250K. Now I need to bring them together in a way that an adhesive bond is created....

01 March 2021 3,325 2 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 to raise temperature in small increments during equilibration in LAMMPS?

All, I am trying to equilibrate an Ice 1h crystalline structure to 250K in LAMMPS. When I tried to do this at 250K directly, the structure lost it's crystalline shape and became disordered post...

14 February 2021 5,747 2 View

Can anyone please suggest where I can find a reference for ReaxFF parameters for PTFE(Teflon) suitable for use in LAMMPS?

Trying to simulate a ice-PTFE interaction and am unable to find a reference which actually lists out forcefield parameters for PTFE-PTFE interactions using ReaxFF or even other force fields like...

08 February 2021 9,373 2 View

Are the topics below viable research in plant biotechnology?

1. Chemically induced mutagenesis in seed and qPCR detection and amplification of desired trait. 2. Site-directed mutagenesis in qualitative traits of a multiline seed.

04 February 2021 9,069 3 View

Should the Ice 1h crystalline structure be lost during equilibration process in LAMMPS?

I have created an Ice 1h structure and am equilibrating it 100K in NVT ensemble in LAMMPS for a timestep of 0.25fs in 3000 steps. The potential used is TIP4P/Ice. Although the simulation runs fine...

26 January 2021 9,603 11 View

Fluorophore panel selection?

Hello, I'm trying to select fluorophores for a large panel of flow cytometry, so I'm wondering what is the maximum degree of overlap between two fluorophores that is considered acceptable? Thanks.

19 January 2021 3,475 3 View

Running a Kruskal-Wallis test on a large sample with a likert scale on excel?

Hi everyone, I would like to run a Kruskal-Wallis test on a large sample with a likert scale. I am having difficulties figuring out how to process with the ''rank_avg'', and rank sum with such a...

05 December 2020 793 3 View

What is the relationship between pressure vacuum and pore water emptying?

Hello everyone, When I put a wet sample in a vacuum desiccator, the larger pores tend to empty. I would like to know if there is a relationship between vacuum pressure and the size of emptied...

25 November 2020 9,967 5 View

Any explaination for change signs and significant level of control variables in regression?

I have 2 sets of regression estimations with same dependent variables, same control variables and model. In the second regression, there are two additional variables. However, the sign and...

28 September 2020 6,304 6 View

Tooth extraction and subsequent dental implant placement in Sprague-Dawley rats induce differential changes in anterior digastric myofibre size and ?

01 March 2021 7,254 3 View

Fictitious Boundary Meshing Method (FBM) in Commercial FEA software?

Is it possible to implement FBM in a commercial FEA software package, such as FEMLAB, COMSOL, or open source software like Moose?

22 February 2021 2,968 1 View

Which Journals would you advise to submit a Letter which briefly talks about neurosurgical treatment of neuro-oncological patient during Sars-COV-2?

Possibily not an open access journal which does not add any publishing costs once being accepted. Thank you in advance

09 February 2021 717 6 View

Could you please suggest 3D opensource plotting tool for spheres, cylinders and other shapes?

I will be plotting multiple such shapes. Hence, I am looking for an interactive slice through option to see if there are any overlaps. Thanks,

04 February 2021 861 6 View

Lighting for open field test behavior assay?

I am currently setting up our lab's behavioral space to run the open field test in rats, and I am trying to figure out how to set up lighting to evenly illuminate the open field chamber (a 90 cm x...

26 January 2021 1,399 3 View

How editors and reviewers evaluate the innovative idea of article ?

In peer review, Does the innovative of idea in article is besed on methodolgy , or study area, or the used dataset or all of them? How editors and reviewers evaluate the innovative idea of...

21 January 2021 1,206 11 View

What is the ACTUAL COST OF A PUBLICATION??

Hi. It's 2021 January. Recently, I got to know that Elsevier has converted around 160 journals into some "Transformative Journals" and follow the recommendations under "Plan S"...

19 January 2021 9,985 2 View

Do Fire damages Concrete Structures Below soil?

Hi All, I am working on the rehabilitation of a fire-damaged structure. Should I consider the Column below Soil structurally deficient. visually it doesn't look like fire affected the column...

12 January 2021 5,401 3 View

Suggest some good journals having Impact factor more than 3 which is not an open access one for alternative and complimentary medicine?

Suggest some good journals having Impact factor more than 3 which is not an open access one for alternative and complimentary medicine?

11 January 2021 7,782 1 View

What are the (extrinsic) factors that influence the citation rate of a research article?

Dear RG members, Excluding the (intrinsic) factors such as quality and content of an article, what are the extrinsic factors/predicors that influence the citation rate of a research article? Is...

07 January 2021 3,410 3 View