What are some underexplored theories and concepts in Activated Carbon as A Water Filter?

Hi, me and my team mates are currently planning to pursue the topic of Activated Carbon from Coconut as a Water Filter. And we would like to ask for your suggestions and knowledge on what specific...

22 February 2021 6,569 3 View

What are some underexplored theories and concepts in Activated Carbon as A Water Filter?

Hi, me and my team mates are currently planning to pursue the topic of Activated Carbon from Coconut as a Water Filter. And we would like to ask for your suggestions and knowledge on what specific...

21 February 2021 7,561 4 View

What properties of water shall be analyzed and evaluated to test the effectiveness of activated carbon?

I would like to ask what other properties of water (pH and such) shall be analyzed and evaluated to test the effectiveness of activated carbon from filtering the contaminants present in the water?

20 February 2021 9,422 8 View

Who are the possible experts I can reach out to regarding the reseach topic: Activated Carbon as Water Filter?

Hi! Me and my team mates are currently new in doing a research study. We do not have any previous experiences in research. And we just wanted to know what type of experts (the field they in) can...

19 February 2021 9,596 4 View

Best loss function for special classification problem in neural networks ?

Hello, I've build a Conv1D model to classify items into 6 categories (from 0 to 5). (simplified example) I use therefore a CrossEntropy loss function that penalizes the errors with high...

19 January 2021 3,199 1 View

Anybody to help me with Code source for DOUBLE CONCAVE FRICTION PENDULUM BEARINGS Please?

Hello, would you please share the codes for Base Isolation of structures using Double Concave Friction Pendulum Bearings? I am doing a related research but as I am just a beginner in MATLAB, I...

18 January 2021 6,683 1 View

Are normality checks required for large sample sizes?

07 January 2021 6,360 2 View

Who created the NAMI Self-Care Inventory (SCI)?

The SCI questionnaire for measuring domains of self-care appears in several places on the internet and scantly in the literature. There are no published validation studies or...

02 December 2020 6,848 1 View

Has anyone used Colwell's EstimateS software to measure beta diversity of marine fishes?

I recently just found out about this statistical software and am interested to learn more about how this can be applied in marine fish ecology. Any leads on relevant literature would be most helpful.

15 November 2020 6,960 2 View

Any molecular beacon producing company to recommend ?

Hello, For one of my projects I would like to test a Live RNA imaging using molecular beacons such as in this paper : Molecular Beacon-based Detection and Isolation of Working-ty... As we...

28 October 2020 9,457 2 View

For acid treated montmorillonite clays what will be the result of surface area?

The organo montmorillonite nanoclays modified with octadecylamine were used for the experiment. After acid treatment, the surface area will be increase. However, in my experiment, the surface area...

10 February 2021 1,581 3 View

What could be the reason for XRD pattern starting from very high counts/intensity at 3 degree 2 theta?

I am working on XRD analysis of the clay minerals from the sea sediments. My XRD pattern shows very high counts at the start of the XRD pattern (3 degree 2 theta) which is very unusual. The counts...

31 January 2021 4,493 9 View

Which method is preferable for cutting the nanocomposites?

Which of the methods like water jet cutting, diamond cutting, laser cutting, etc. is more suitable to cut the carbon nanotubes reinforced epoxy composites into test sample to ensure the clean...

29 January 2021 1,354 5 View

What is the harmless way of cutting epoxy filled nanocomposite ?

I want to cut epoxy filled nanocomposite for FE-SEM analysis. What is the best way to cut it without resulting in any cracks or change in position or alignment of the particle reinforcement ? Also...

28 January 2021 7,084 5 View

How to get rid of the solvents from a PU-Ag nanocomposite?

I've synthesized a polyurethane-Ag nanocomposite and the product is dissolved in a two-component system i.e. DMF and DMSO. I wish to know of any ways that I can use to get rid of the solvents and...

27 January 2021 1,847 3 View

Is it possible to prepare clay minerals by mixing pure oxides of required elements? What would be theoretical difficulties with it?

Practically this is not at all necessary. But theoretically, would hydrous/hydrothermal synthesis be enough (like mix 1 mole alumina gel and 4 mole silica gel and gently heat) or would it require...

26 January 2021 6,403 3 View

Why degradation of pesticides is maximum at specific pH by using nanoparticles and nanocomposite?

actually, I am degrading pesticides by using inorganic composites the pH of the pesticide in distilled water is neutral the pH of nanocomposite is also neutral then why maximum degradation takes...

23 January 2021 8,775 3 View

What is the difference between soluble ions and exchangeable cations? And How to determine each of them?

I used percolation columns to reclamation saline-sodic clay soils . And my question is, What is the difference between soluble ions and exchangeable cations?

18 January 2021 6,868 3 View

In the tensile test for a nanocomposite sample, if the sample width decreases (thickness is constant), what does the stress-strain curve change?

Given that the stress is equal to the force divided by the area(width*thickness), what change does the reduction in sample width make to the stress-strain curve? Does stress change occur...

09 January 2021 5,124 5 View

Is there a way to identify the clay mineral based on the Si:Al ratio that has been obtained through EDAX analysis?

I have come through a few literature,were the presence of particular clay mineral has been validated through the Si:Al ratio obtained from EDAX analysis. But, I would like to understand the basic...

08 January 2021 5,982 6 View