What type of bonding happens between a polymer and a crosslinker during a ionotropic gelation technique?

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How to differentiate strength of Target-DNA Aptamer interaction versus DNA Aptamer-Complementary DNA hybridization?

We will be developing competitive lateral flow aptasensors for a small molecule target. However, we are concerned about the strength of the DNA aptamer- target interaction versus the interaction...

02 March 2018 4,118 3 View

Why is that the zeta potential of purified gold nanoparticles is higher than the zeta potential of the unpurified gold nanoparticles?

I am doing an aptamer-based sensing of heavy metals and I will be using gold nanoparticles (AuNPs) as the optical label. Part of the preparation of the aptamer-AuNP recognition label is that the...

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Why is that absorbance ratio is considered in optimizing detection conditions of gold nanoparticles?

I am currently doing literature search on gold nanoparticles for my Masters' thesis. And all of the papers Ive read always considered absorbance ratio of gold nanoparticles in their optimization...

02 March 2017 5,698 4 View

Why is rubber prone to crosslinking?

Reason why rubber is prone to crosslinking?

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UV Visible spectra of salbutamol sulfate.

I have scanned a 5mg solution of salbutamol (as sulfate) in pH 7.4 PBS from 200nm - 400nm in order to obtain its absorption spectra. Based on the certificate of analysis, its maximum absorption is...

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What are the possible applications of inorganic nanomaterials?

I've been looking at some papers regarding the synthesis and characterization of different inorganic materials and I am becoming interested with this topic.

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What does it mean when there is a large amount of moisture in drug-loaded calcium alginate microparticles?

Does it mean that the content of the polymer is mostly water? How about the drug? How can it be explained chemically?

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Why is that the calcium - alginate coordination called "egg-box" model?

I am currently doing an undergrad research which is about calcium alginate-based drug delivery systems...

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What is the best drying method to do in order to get low-moisture content alginate hydrogels?

Im only doing air-drying. Can you suggest other methods that will produce low-moisture content alginate hydrogel without altering the properties of the drug loaded inside the polymeric matrix.

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Is pH 7.4 phosphate buffer saline more suitable to use than pH 7.4 phosphate (acid-conjugate base buffer system) in simulating physiological pH?

Which is more stable to degradation even in short periods of time?

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MD MOE RMSD

How to calculate the RMSD values for a MD simulation using MOE?

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MD MOE RMSD

How to calculate the RMSD values for a MD simulation using MOE?

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fatal error

When I tried to energy minimization my system, I got fatal error as below. Fatal error: Atomtype opls_116 not found Although I've already added this line: ; include water #include "oplsaa.ff/spc.itp" to [molecultype] directive in my topology.

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flexibility of polymers chain

effect of double bond on the flexibility of polymers

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Formulation of polymer color flakes

I am writing to request some information for making polymer color flakes. I would appreciate the help.

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What is the most Operating System (OS) which can be INSTALL on Tiny hard devices like Raspberry Pi (RPi) hardware ?

I'm targeting to deploy a mesh network and manually configure MANET routing protocols. I'm preparing scenarios, architectures, and hard devices needed to do that. Are there some step-by-step...

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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...

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