Gas sensor response and recovery time independant of flow rate and chamber volume?

I am trying to obtain the response and recovery times for my gas sensor device. It appears the the response/recovery times are primarily dependant on the flow rate of the gas I inject into the...

26 February 2021 1,511 3 View

Cracked MEMS cantilevers despite wet release and critical point drying?

I have successfully released MEMS cantilevers with a photoresist sacrificial layer, using a dry plasma ashing technique. However, this process tends to damage the metal contact pads and result in...

15 November 2020 8,963 6 View

Hello Everyone, I am trying to regress a numeric variable on all categorical variables, which method would be the most suitable, ANOVA,Linear Regrsn?

I tried running Linear Regression but I feel the model has heteroskedasticity.

03 May 2020 6,874 6 View

Which method is precise and reproducible to determine concentration of 0.5% w/w Glutaraldehyde; Titrimetry or GC ? Describe the method in brief?

Glutaraldehyde, in low concentration at buffered pH 7.2, is used as a shipping solvent for Medical devices involving animal tissue. Suggest a accurate and reproducible method for determining assay...

12 March 2020 6,032 1 View

When to use bounded Second Order Implicit Time Integration in Fluent?

Fluent offers different temporal discretization schemes. There are two implicit schemes: Second order and bounded second order. I am wondering what are the advantages and disadvantages of these...

12 December 2019 3,795 4 View

How to implement Distributed Activation Energy Model (DAEM) in ANSYS Fluent?

I want to model a chemical reaction in Fluent. However, reaction being too complicated, there is no single activation energy model available. The DAEM approach is used to estimate the products...

26 August 2019 7,144 1 View

How to model a chemical reaction in Fluent involving gaseous reactants and solid product?

I am currently simulating a system involving various chemical reactions. My primary phase is gaseous and secondary phase is solid. There are reactions involving solid to solid and gas to gas...

02 May 2019 3,826 3 View

Can I use k-epsilon turbulence model for transitional flow?

I have a geometry where the flow is transitional. i.e. a part of it has laminar flow and rest part has turbulent flow. Can I use k-epsilon model for this problem? Does it resolve the laminar...

28 March 2019 6,428 19 View

How to get the diameters of droplets in Fluent?

I am simulating a diesel spray in air. I want to get the number of droplets and their diameters (preferably individual over mean) at certain time step. How can I extract this data?

13 December 2018 8,433 3 View

What are the advantages of Finite volume method (FVM) over Finite difference Method (FDM) for particularly flow simulation (CFD) ?

Most of the CFD solvers use FVM. However, FDM is pretty simple to implement. I am interested to know exactly what advantages do FVM offer. And when should one go for FDM if he is planning to write...

13 December 2018 8,641 38 View

Looking for Materials with high thermal expansion coefficient and high temperature resistance?

03 March 2021 8,272 1 View

Sample dilution for quantitative analysis using ELISA?

If the detection range is in ng/ml but the reference range is in ug/ml for a molecule or protein in serum or plasma .how to dilute and what is the initial volume to be taken for quantitative analysis

02 March 2021 7,670 3 View

How to grow E.coli on the low salt LB agar plate with 50 or 100ug/ml of Blasticidin?

Hello, I would like to ask how to grow E.coli which resists 50 or 100ug/ml of Blasticidin. I have tried many methods by using low salt Luria-Bertain(LB) agar plate. However, no colonies grow. Let...

01 March 2021 2,027 2 View

Are there lab markers/pens resistant to Roti-Histol?

Hi, I'm looking for a pen/marker to write on the smooth, transparent (non-frosted) part of microscopy slides which does not get washed away by alcohols and most importantly Roti-Histol. I want to...

24 February 2021 9,902 5 View

IF troubleshooting: looking at an intracellular protein that localizes to the cell's and how to reduce increase in signal due to cell ruffles?

I am currently trying to stain for PI3KBeta in MDA-MB-231 cells. My current issue is that 1) beta stains all over the cell and 2) there is an increase in signal at the edge of the cell and this...

24 February 2021 8,582 1 View

Is it efficient to do liquid biopsy to investigate the gene expressions of the tumor?

To do liquid biopsy and look for specific gene expressions there are so many published papers. Thera are different protocols and procedures used to isolate circulating cell free RNA or mRNA from...

23 February 2021 7,326 5 View

How to clean up TEM grid with plasma cleaner?

I need to clean the hydrocarbon contamination on the carbon substrate of TEM grid. However, I heard that substrate could be broken by the powerful plasma. My substrate is pure carbon, with ~3nm,...

23 February 2021 3,262 5 View

I have a problem with kanamycin - why the kanamycin doesn't affect?

Hi everyone, I need to expression of GFP with pET28 plasmid in E. coli BL21(DE3) plysE. Transformed cells have kanamycin and chloramphenicol resistance. Normally, only transformed cells should...

22 February 2021 4,032 4 View

How does elongation affect the resistance of an electrode?

What are the testing rate for electrodes recommended by ASTM for cochlear implants. I am currently doing the 15mm/min elongatio testing.

22 February 2021 1,515 1 View

Resistivity of PVD TiNx thin films vs. N2 flow?

In the PVD of TiN thin films (~100A), I've found the resistivity of the TiN films dropped from ~100 to 60um*cm with N2 flow increasing up to the metallic mode ending point; then the resistivity...

21 February 2021 1,864 2 View