Good sites to recruit survey participants on a grad school student budget?

Any good recommendations for participant recruitment for online surveys on a grad school student budget?

02 March 2021 4,293 4 View

What is the best way to improve the working potential window of a solid electrolyte?

My solid polymer electrolyte shows low bulk resistance show quite a low bulk resistance. However, the potential window (obtained from LVS) is very small. Please how can I improve the operating...

31 January 2021 3,340 9 View

What is the best procedure for measuring the pH of aqueous colloidal systems?

There has long been a debate among my colleagues about measuring the pH of aqueous colloids. As I see there is no general truth in the matter, so I ask this question below. What is the best and...

31 January 2021 8,203 3 View

Is carboxymethyl cellulose a better electrolyte host polymer than methyl cellulose and cellulose acetate?

I want to prepare a cellulose-based biopolymer solid electrolyte by solution casting technique. However, choosing the right cellulose derivative has been my major challenge. Among the many factors...

30 January 2021 5,355 3 View

How can I implement a Generalized Estimating Equation method on spatially autocorrelated time-series data?

I used Generalized Estimating Equations (geepack in R) on my regularly monitored (twice a year) plant abundance data in grid cells to evaluate their trends of density. Since these are time-series...

26 January 2021 3,833 1 View

How to extract isodose lines from radiotherapy dose cloud into masks that can be overlaid on images using python?

I'm able to load a dose cloud into python as a numpy ndarray using pynrrd. The next challenge is to extract isodose lines (like V50%) to create masks (bitmap images) that I can overlay onto other...

19 January 2021 8,503 2 View

How to calculate percent of identity in aligned RNA sequences with a sliding window ?

Hello, I aligned some RNA sequences to identify if some part are similar. I would like to represent my result with the similarity in y-axis and the alignement in x-axis. I want to calculate this...

13 January 2021 7,833 3 View

Which peak should I consider when calculating ZIF-8's crystalline size from XRD?

Hello, Using the Scherrer's equation, one could calculate, roughly, the crystalline size of ZIF-8. However, I am confused as to which peak in the XRD pattern should be taken for the calculation?...

10 January 2021 8,633 3 View

Bio Rad CFX96 Touch Real time PCR System?

Dear friends I would like to ask about your experience with the instrument (Bio Rad CFX96 Touch Real time PCR System) and its performance. Also I would like to know if this version need...

29 November 2020 2,166 5 View

Can you recommend any packages in R which are able to create a ternary plot / triplot?

I already used the triplot() function of package klaR, but I cannot label points in this function by the row and column names of the distance-matrix. Any ideas?

25 November 2020 1,230 12 View

Looking for Materials with high thermal expansion coefficient and high temperature resistance?

03 March 2021 8,272 1 View

Can we classify HV and LV lines based on line length?

I have dataset which shows the length of power lines. I need to classify the lines based on the line length. Is there a rule to classify the High voltage (HV) and low voltage (LV) lines based on...

03 March 2021 4,116 4 View

Chlorinated organic formation in odor control scrubbers using hypochlorite?

I'm involved in a study of odor control technologies for municipal wastewater treatment plant. One of the control options involves a chemical 2-stage (acid/alkaline) packed bed scrubber. The...

03 March 2021 3,661 2 View

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

I am try to make the Paal Knorr reaction between 2.5 hexnedione and 6-amino hexanoic acid, my problem is type of solvent to use, because 6-hexaminohexanoic acid is soluble in water but I am not...

02 March 2021 4,443 2 View

How the parameters (such as Mw, Chemical bonds, polymer bland and so on) affect the mechanic property of polymer (such as storage, loss modulus) ?

Anyone can recommend any books on such topics? Thanks in advance.

02 March 2021 8,457 2 View

Waters 2707 HPLC autosampler problem?

I am using a 2707 waters HPLC device. When I try to inject a sample, it says missing plate or rack. I changed the needle and calibrated its position but I still get the same problem. I even get...

02 March 2021 1,408 1 View

Is There Any Feasible Method To Test Fluorescent Compounds Other Than Fluorescence Spectrometers ??

Is There Any Feasible Method To Test The Efficiency Of Fluorescent Compounds Other Than UV Spectrometers ? Suggestions Would Be Appreciated !

02 March 2021 5,785 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

How optimize the Size Exclusion Chromatography?

Hello! I'll do a size exclusion chromatography, but I only have an open column, and I'll perform the peptide extraction from yeast, using buffer lysis (sodium phosphate 50 mM/NaCl 30 mM/DNAse and...

01 March 2021 2,215 2 View

Ester cleavage conditions?

Hi all, I need to cleave the ester in Ethyl 2-amino-1H-imidazole-5-carboxylate to make the carboxylic acid and retrieve the product from solution to use in downstream applications of linking to...

01 March 2021 8,766 3 View