Water insoluble, Acetone or Ethanol Soluble Polymers?

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Why does flow deformation occur at the test line and control line on nitrocellulose membranes (LFIA)?

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How can I set up UV irradiation for crosslinking lab?

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Which air pollution/air quality books do you recommend for working with environmental engineering students?

I am exploring up-to-date books on air pollution and air quality, and I would like to know which books do you recommend for environmental engineering students.

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How to simulate Sloshing water using Dynamic mesh in ANSYS Fluent ?

I am trying to model sloshing water in a tank in ANSYS Fluent using Wall motion. BUT it seems that System coupling is not responding to wall motion and it works only with Dynamic mesh.

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Are there other models that meet the same purpose?

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SDAS, secondary dendritic arms space relation with solidification rate?

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Shall i use the country's CPI score or rank while entering the data ?

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Straight chain or Ring peptide for inhibiting a homo-dimer of a 20 KDa secretory protein?

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Any thoughts for a research topic in a master's level thesis regarding combination of Supply chain and entrepreneurship?

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Can electrophoretic mobility measurements of polymer-coated AuNPs be used to infer the role of charge (if any) in their dispersion stability?

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What kind of fluid could I use for a pitfall trap that also does not invalidate molecular testing?

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What solvent can I used for Paal Knorr reaction between 6-amino hexanoic acid and 2.5 hexanedione?

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Does Napabucasin soluble in dichloromethane and in ethanol?

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What is the state of the drug inside solid lipid nanoparticles (SLNs)?

I am a little confuse with the mechanism of solid lipid nanoparticles (SLNs). The main point of encapsulating drugs into SLNs is because some drugs have low solubility in water. Therefore, SLNs...

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Is CD44 degraded in lysosome together with hyaluronan after CD44 mediated endocytosis of hyaluronic acid?

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Can polymer concentrations be calculated based on the number average molecular weight?

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What is the density for pva electrospining?

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Why am i not getting solid after reacting APTES with salicylaldehyde?

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I want to performe MALDI-TOF MS for bacterial identification, I would appreciate it if anyone can tell me the matrix solution preparation protocol ?

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I am trying to find how to know the density needed for a pva electrospinning in a 0.6mm neddle, the electrospinning will be from top to bottom and the problem I really have is the solution because...

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Alberto Baldelli

Hello, check out PEG, ethyl cellulose, cellulose acetate butyrate, PLGA (and similar).

Abdelkader BOUAZIZ

Dear all, PEG's are water soluble. May be polyacrylonitrile and polyvinyle chloride will reach the requirements. My Regards

Mina Karimi-Avargani

Dear Omar Shafi,

I have attached the standard which the solvents of some polymers have been introduced. I hope it would be useful.

Omar Shafi

Thank you for your answers, will look into. Some of these materials seem hard to spin, especially cellulose acetate, and don't give me a nice fiber mat that I can peel off my glass slide the way PVP does. Hard to understand why?