What mechanism is involved when chitosan is coated on magnetic nanoparticles?

Hello! I am currently working on coating of chitosan on magnetic Fe3O4 nanoparticles. I am wondering how this coating process happened? i.e. through what mechanism that chitosan can be coated on...

13 January 2021 5,657 5 View

How to reduce background noise when testing cholesterol level in rat serum?

l've got rat serum samples with different background (from pink to yellow) and l'm trying to test total cholesterol, HDL and triglyceride in mice serum. l'm worried that the background noise...

14 November 2020 6,628 3 View

Is rotary evaporator a must before going through TPC, TFC and DPPH assay?

I am doing an optimization of ginger extract using doe software, firstly I extract the ground ginger with 20ml solvents of 60%, 70% and 80% ethanol using the ultrasound water bath in different...

23 October 2020 3,268 10 View

Avoid Sample Bias: How many subjects do we need for the underrepresented categories?

Hello, We have a 3*3*2*2*2*2*3*3= 3^4*2^4 (i.e. Total eight factors: four factors with two levels each, and four factors with three levels each) design. One of our factors is Age, which has three...

12 October 2020 6,389 2 View

Failure in using Gene Pulser Xcell (Biorad) ?

02 October 2020 8,642 1 View

How to make the peak fitting better in TOPAS Rieltveld Refinement ?

Hi I am doing TOPAS Rieltveld Refinement by JEdit on PbTiO3-based perovskite solid solution found that my peak fitting is not that good. I got Rwp 4.584%, Rexp 0.825%, Rp 2.780, and GOF 5.560....

01 October 2020 1,981 5 View

How to quickly know the new research area landscape and find a research gap in this new area?

As a Ph.D. candidate who enters a new research area that differs from the research topic in the master period (e.g. shift form crop breeding to soil ecology), how to quickly know the new research...

23 September 2020 8,131 5 View

How to use a mixed level fractional factorial design?

Hello, I have a 3*3*2*2*2*2*3*3= 3^4*2^4 (i.e. Total eight factors: four factors with two levels each, and four factors with three levels each). To get a small effect size in regression, the...

09 September 2020 1,946 10 View

Algorithm to deduct process patterns in furnace operations behaviour ?

A casting plant with three identical aging furnaces is operating 24/7 using certain energy consumption and peak demand with data logging logging on 10 minute interval. I am trying to study whether...

03 August 2020 8,057 3 View

Is it necessary to do elution of proteins from Polyacrylamide gel?

Dear researchers, I would like to ask is it necessary to do Elution of proteins from Polyacrylamide gel before sending the protein sample to Nano-LC-TOF-MS Analysis? This is what I plan, I would...

01 August 2020 3,680 3 View

Physics: Why do we describe light by referring to its wavelength, but microwaves and radar pulses by referring to their frequency?

In physics, the description of the properties of light generally refers to its wavelength (nm), while in the range of microwaves and radio waves we refer to the frequency of a signal (e.g. kHz or...

03 March 2021 1,682 3 View

Why are the velocities so high in my Boussinesq approximation Fluent simulation?

Hello, I have a mechanism where air rises due to convective flows. In this simulation, nothing is driving the air except this. I understand that the Boussinesq approximation only works for small...

02 March 2021 4,910 3 View

Why almost every element would be metallized in sufficiently high pressure and low temperature?

(This statement is from wikipedia, BTW). What is so special about metallic bond that is limiting high-P low-T state of a matter (as long as individual atoms exist, not white dwarf of neutron star...

02 March 2021 3,309 2 View

What are anisotropic electrical and optical properties of a semiconductor due to?

In some materials, properties such as band gap, thermal conductivity differ along different crystallographic axes. What are the basics?

01 March 2021 1,923 3 View

How can you bring two structures together to create an adhesive bond in LAMMPS?

I have created an Ice 1h crystalline structure and an Aluminium substrate structure and equilibrated both at 250K. Now I need to bring them together in a way that an adhesive bond is created....

01 March 2021 3,325 2 View

Which one is easier and better at modeling slender masonry structures? ANSYS or ABAQUS?

I need to model masonry and reinforced concrete minarets for my MSc thesis. Which one is easier and better at modeling slender masonry structures? ANSYS or ABAQUS? (Or any other program for just...

01 March 2021 736 3 View

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...

01 March 2021 3,703 3 View

What is the density for pva electrospining?

I'm Juan Carlos, a high school student who is working with electropinning, I made an electropinning machine with a 21g needle and a 30kv high voltage source and the distance between my needle is...

28 February 2021 298 3 View

Should we reduce the standard unit of length to 0.31951540592 meter ?

The reasoning behind this question is to align the ratios of the proton potential in energy per charge to the speed of light in distance per time. As these two dimensions appear to be related,...

27 February 2021 947 7 View

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25 February 2021 5,713 1 View