In your experience which journals (or publication houses) have the fastest publication times?

All of the journals I have published in take around 4-5 months to get the review of the paper done, and another 1-2 months to accept and publish the paper online. I was wondering if this is the...

31 December 2012 2,363 64 View

Do Cu nanoparticles exhibit no Raman spectra?

If a composite material consisiting of Carbon naotubes and Cu nanoparticles is made, is the Raman spectra of copper nanoparticles masked?

31 December 2012 1,030 5 View

Do you think Carbon fibre based composites can replace Steel and other structural materials?

Carbon fibre based composites show various advantages (light weight, less prone to corrosion, etc..) over Steel and other structural materials. For example Carbon fibre composites are already...

31 December 2012 3,994 12 View

What would be the best computer programming language to learn from a scientific perspective?

C++, Fortran, Java etc.?

11 December 2012 4,209 12 View

Which is the best method for conjugation of antibodies with nanomaterials (especially metallic nanoparticles)?

Can the antibodies be directly attached or some other polymeric/protein based materials must be used on the surface of metallic nanoparticles.

11 December 2012 8,040 4 View

Is it possible to learn any science by yourself?

Are we capable of learning a new subject by using books, internet, etc.. without the need of a teacher? For example is it possible to learn physics on your own?

10 November 2012 6,969 12 View

Does the ranking of your university matter for doing a PhD?

Is it more important to do a PhD from a high ranking university for a good career in academia? Supposing you can carry out good research at a lower ranked university (publications in good journals...

10 November 2012 3,168 25 View

Impact factor Vs. Citations

1. What would you prefer a highly cited paper, or a publication in a high impact journal? and 2. What is considered better?

09 October 2012 9,027 12 View

-COOH, -OH functionalisation of CNTS

I would like to know about various methods to functionalize CNTs for the mentioned groups and any other groups would be an added bonus. Also a method involving minimal wastage of cnts would be...

05 June 2011 580 8 View

Short term internship/training

Firstly I would like to say its a pleasure to join this group. I am an MSc Nanotechnology student, and I would like to know about any opportunities to gain some research experience in this area. I...

11 December 2010 5,972 3 View

Guidelines for survey (question type) analysis?

Hi. Please tell me what guidelines should i need to follow for questionaries' type research work in India. It is not hospital based work, we are conduction basic institutional based qualitative...

03 March 2021 2,037 3 View

I need to image mesoporous silica nanoparticles that are in ~100 nm size and do high resolution TEM to look at mesopores. what grids should I use?

Need to image mesoporous silica nanoparticles using the TEM. Also, need high resolution TEM images to see the mesoporous structure. Kindly suggest what kind of grids to use. Thanks, Shatadru

02 March 2021 1,787 2 View

How to access MSCI KLD Stats and Sustainalytics?

Hello all, I'm currently working on my undergraduate thesis and I'm having difficulties trying to access KLD Stats and Sustainalytics because my campus Airlangga University and apparently other...

02 March 2021 8,525 1 View

Ideas for Phd's Thesis on pricing (Marketing)?

Hi everyone, I'm studying Marketing and I would like to write my PhD thesis on the topic of pricing. Any specific ideas?

02 March 2021 9,706 5 View

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02 March 2021 3,060 3 View

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02 March 2021 932 1 View

How to calculate BREQ 3 questionnaire?

how to calculate BEHAVIOURAL REGULATION IN EXERCISE QUESTIONNAIRE BREQ 3 ,which contain 24 questions and each question has 5 answers (0- Strongly disagree , 1-disagree, 2- Neither agree nor...

02 March 2021 811 3 View

Please suggest a good text book for "Research Methodology in Life Sciences". Which book would be good for PhD Scholars?

Please provide Book Title and author name

02 March 2021 9,059 3 View

How does Scientist/RG community evaluates a case study article and the impact of it on a researcher career?

An article that is published as a case study in the SJR listed journal. How much value is added to a researcher career? How it is evaluated by a scientific researcher/University admission...

02 March 2021 9,661 3 View

Could any one guide me, to write research proposal for grant? ?

We have one plant, the local people using this for controlling blood sugar, the toxicity and antidiabetic activity of the plant is not reported yet, please guide from whag should be the process ?...

02 March 2021 2,300 1 View