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How do calculate adsorption strength from IR data?

How can I determine the adsorption strength or Heat of absorption of CO on a metal from FTIR data.

02 March 2016 4,278 4 View

Does the method of synthesis affect the type of OH groups on the surface of the resulting oxide?

I have prepared an oxide of different structures (e.g. nanocubes, nanobelt, rods, etc.) using different preparation techniques. I want to modify the surface of these materials with silanes. The...

10 November 2015 808 3 View

How to support Co3O4 nano plates on Carbon?

Which form of carbon support could be best for support Co3O4 nanoparticle? What are the best ways to activate the carbon support if need be

09 October 2015 2,424 3 View

How to calculate metallic dispersion?

I have carried out a hydrogen chemisorption experiment and have determined, from the linearized Langmuir isotherm, the volume of hydrogen required for mono layer coverage (i.e 5.5 ml/g). How do I...

31 December 2013 655 8 View

Sem/eds

1. If I have a sample of a nanosized material and modify its surface with some ligands [e.g. Ti(OCH2CH2CH3)4] and do EDS on the modified sample, is the elemental ratio correspond the ratio of...

07 August 2013 8,863 11 View

How to improve dispersion of Co3O4 nanoparticles on SiC?

I have Co3O4 nanoparticles and would like to disperse them on SiC. I have tried doing so in various solvents such as water, dilute HNO3 ethanol and I have obtain poor dispersion. Can anyone...

05 June 2013 2,725 5 View

Activation Energy

How can Activation Energy be calculated from a TPR profile data of a sample treated at constant heating rate. Does a shift in a TPR peak imply change in activation energy if the shift occurs at...

05 June 2013 7,958 10 View

How can I remove a surfactant from nanoparticles?

I have synthesized Co3O4 in the presence of SDS and would like to know a simple method to remove it from my nanoparticles?

03 April 2013 4,550 43 View

Is there a simple method that could be used to hydroxylate cobalt oxide (Co3O4) surface?

I would like to know if the Co3O4 surface could be hydroxylated?

10 November 2012 1,453 2 View

How to learn more about SPSS and its Application?

I would like to learn more about SPSS and Its application especially in regards to data analysis. Please suggest me how I can learn more about it. Thank you so much.

11 August 2024 9,101 4 View

Can I base on reverse DNA sequences to perform alignment, convert to amino acids and GenBank submission?

I have reverse sequences (AB1 format), can I base on reverse DNA sequences to perform nucleotide alignment, convert nucleotides to amino acids and deposit the sequence in GenBank database?

11 August 2024 5,138 1 View

Baseline drift in HPLC? What causes this?

Hello, Why do i see this baseline drift when i compare my blank (black) to the sample (blue)? Any suggestions as to why this happened? Thank you!

11 August 2024 3,770 4 View

Text-Communication from the M1 Hand Area using BCI—and then there is Elon Musk?

Willett, Shenoy et al. (2021) have developed a brain computer interface (BCI) that used neural signal collected from the hand area of the motor cortex (area M1) of a paralyzed patient. The...

10 August 2024 7,180 0 View

Has anyone applied Python in the field of textile engineering for data analysis, automation, or smart textiles?

I'm currently exploring the application of Python in textile engineering, specifically in areas like data analysis, process automation, and the development of smart textiles. I'm interested in...

10 August 2024 7,429 2 View

How can I use the cif data obtained from rietveld refinement extracted via gsas2, for microstructural analysis using ETEX software?

09 August 2024 7,718 0 View

How are iso-frequency contours plotted?

Let's say we have a standard, regular hexagonal honeycomb with a 3-arm primitive unit cell (something like the figure attached; the figure is only representative and not drawn to scale). The...

07 August 2024 1,937 1 View

How to prepare the nanoparticle treated fungal sample for Environmental SEM analysis?

A fungal strain was treated with nanoparticles. We want to do an environmental SEM analysis. So could anyone share your views on preparing the sample? Thank you.

07 August 2024 5,307 1 View

How to normalize and take the significance of the MTT OD values with 3 replicates for the same cell-line?

Hi, I have a question about normalizing the MTT OD values for doing the statistical analysis. So, if we have 3 different plates and we call them 3 different replicates, so, first we would...

07 August 2024 8,106 4 View

Hello Everyone ! I'm looking for a good journal to publish my manuscript with low publication cost?

I am Looking for a Science Journal with good impact factor and low publication cost to publish a review paper. Your suggestions would be appreciated.

06 August 2024 6,796 3 View