How to know homogeneity of two thermoplastic polymer composite?

I have melt mixed to thermoplastic polymers. But I want to know the homogeneity of the composite. What are the methods to determine whether the composite is homogeneous or not? Please help.

20 January 2021 9,085 5 View

What is the alternative name of glass transition temperature? How many stages of glass transition range is possible for a polymer?

Is it possible for more than one glass transition range for a thermoplastic polymer. If so why and how? I need the exact answer of this question. Please help.

10 January 2021 379 4 View

How to determine the thickness of Graphene Nanoplatelets (GNPs) by using XRD Technique? What are the other methods to determine the thickness of GNP?

I have been asked a question by a reviewer, how to determine the thickness of the graphene nanoplateles. What are the different techniques to measure the thickness of GNP. Is it possible to...

21 December 2020 1,638 4 View

What is the possibility of side reactions during atmospheric plasma coating of NiCrBSi with Graphene?

I want to coat NiCrBSi metal matrix composite with Graphene Nano Platelets as reinforcing agent. The coating is to be developed by atmospheric plasma spraying method. I am in doubt on possible...

05 October 2020 5,102 3 View

When the Editor Calls for additional Reviewers ?

Recently I have submitted one manuscript to RSC Advances. Within one week the status of my manuscript was in peer review (one reviewer agreed to review). But after about twenty days the manuscript...

24 September 2020 5,601 12 View

Why some hydrogels are opaque and some are transparent? Does it depends upon the thermodynamics/kinetics of gelation? Or on nanostructures of gel?

I have four hydrogels. Out of four two are transparent which take 8-10 hours to form. Other two are opaque which are formed after 3-4 hours. How to explain the transparency and opacity of these...

20 May 2018 8,511 3 View

I want to study spherulite of transparent polyethylene. What is the procedure for sample preparation to study it ; using Polarized Light Microscope?

I am working on to study the crystal behavior of Polypropylene and HDPE composite. For this I am using a Polarized light microscope. But I am not getting the spherulite structure. I need help of...

03 November 2017 6,600 3 View

When Polarized Light microscope should be used ? Can it be used for micro-structure study of polymer composites ?

I am working on HDPE (High density polyethylene)-Polypropylene (PP) composite characterization. For micro structure study is it efficient to use Polarized light microscope or SEM. How PLM is...

13 September 2017 1,553 3 View

How to calculate bond dissociation energy of O-H and N-H bond in Phenolic and Aminic antioxidant?

I would like to correlate BDE with antioxidant performance to protect the hydrocarbon. From where do I can get BDE values for various phenols and amines.

05 June 2016 6,906 6 View

Whether SCI and SCIE Journals equally important for academic Jobs?

Now a days for Indian academic jobs (Particularly in NITs) the applicants should have publications in SCI Journals (should not be paid). But how the SCIE journals can be differentiated? Whether...

01 January 1970 4,357 2 View

How two melting peaks in DSC of polypropylene can be merged into one crystallization peak?

The figure shows DSC cooling (blue) and 2nd heating (green) curves (step: 10 K/min) for a commercial sample supplied as Atactic Polypropylene (APP). The heating curve illustrates two major...

03 March 2021 5,857 3 View

New Journal, "Integrative Psychological and Behavioral Science" -- do you not know, and have you not seen, this done before?

Question to you and THEM, the New Journal, "Integrative Psychological and Behavioral Science" -- do you not know, and have you not seen, this done before? There appears to be a core problem for...

02 March 2021 3,024 2 View

Which is a lucid standard comprehensive book to guide on psychological scale construction and its standardization?

02 March 2021 7,082 3 View

LOAD DISPLACEMENT CURVES Stiffness increasing in ANSYS non linear analysis. HOW CAN I CORRECT IT?

Hi. I am doing non linear FE analysis using a new material beam under flexural 2 point loading using ANSYS. I have defined a bilinear material model. The solution has converged. In results I am...

01 March 2021 9,911 3 View

What are the new 2D nanomaterials were used for Silver nanoparticles stabilization?

In the stabilization of AgNPs are vital in current research interest. However, some of the 2D nano-materials like graphene oxide, MoS2, etc... previously used to stabilize it. But still they shown...

01 March 2021 2,207 3 View

How to choose ANN number of hidden layers and nodes?

Hello, Could you please share any interesting research explaining how to choose the number of hidden layers and nodes per layer in case of regression problems using ANN? Thank you, any help would...

01 March 2021 6,200 3 View

PUC19 as a transfer plasmid for lentiviral delivery?

Hello, Is it possible to use pUC19 as a transfer vector to be packed in using the second generation viral particles packaging system( pMD2.G; psPAX2 plasmids)? As far as I understand it there is...

28 February 2021 4,868 2 View

How to eliminate Steady state error from Reinforcement learning genetic algorithm code?

The following code (see 1st 2 images attached) is used to produce PID controller values that are designed to control the system (G). The code finds the PID controller values (noted as k) by using...

28 February 2021 6,560 14 View

How could I take into consideration the weights of observation in a system of seemingly unrelated regressions (SUR) in rstudio?

I build a model of 4 regression equations (probit and OLS) in R studio. I need to take the weights of observations into consideration. While it is simple to do so for every regression equation,...

27 February 2021 1,233 1 View

Can random sampling have inclusion criteria?

As random sampling means that everyone in the population have an equal chance to be chosen, can it have inclusion criteria? My research participants have been chosen based on the inclusion...

26 February 2021 6,905 10 View