What are the processing steps of a Lithium ion battery ?

Dear All, I have built a Lithium ion pouch battery cell from NMC 111 and graphite with a specific seperator and electrolyte. I now want to do the first steps in testing this battery cell, ie....

01 February 2019 6,010 1 View

Book that is less advanced than Bard and Faulkner's "Electrochemical Methods" text book.

Can someone help me out with suggestions for books that one should read before starting Bard and Faulkner's book on Electrochemical methods ? I am in need of lectures/books that provide basic...

05 June 2017 5,125 0 View

Why does charging current decrease at potentiostatic conditions on the entry side of a Devanathan-Stachurski Cell with Palladium working electrode?

Dear all, I am doing the classical Devanathan - Stachurski experiment with acid electrolyte. The above observation needs an explanation. Also, once I perform a run with a fresh Pd foil, for the...

02 March 2015 5,061 3 View

How do you remove a PVB coating from a thin Pd substrate?

06 July 2014 5,419 3 View

How can I coat only one side of a Palladium substrate with a self assembled monolayer?

I need to coat only one side of a substrate (Palladium) with a self assembled monolayer SAM (alkanethiol) solution. All the methods in literature coat both sides of the substrate with the SAM by...

04 May 2014 5,878 11 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

How do I increase the yield of my PCR product?

Hello, We would like to increase the yield of our PCR product. We are running a series of PCR reactions that is targeting ~1.1kb sequence. We begin each reaction with ~400pg of template DNA...

02 March 2021 4,029 3 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

PACYC PCR not working after several attempts. Would anyone have any suggestions?

So, I have been trying to run a pACYC PCR which will be used later on for a Gibson Assembly. However the PCR is not working. I have already tried gradient PCR and changing extension time; however...

02 March 2021 1,146 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

Which fluorescent dye to use for measuring total ROS production?

Is DCFDA appropriate for measuring total ROS production, or can it only detect certain types of ROS? If I want to measure total ROS production, which dye should I use?

01 March 2021 9,447 3 View

How to address this issue in the analysis of Real-Time PCR results?

To dear Researchers, I was analyzing a series of concentration for estimation of Real-Time PCR efficiency. The concentration was 1:10. I used MS-excel to evaluate Slope. The result of slope was -8...

01 March 2021 8,683 4 View

How to remove DCU and HOBT from my reaction?

I am doing a acid and a chiral amino alcohol reaction using DCC and HOBT in DCM or THF? Can anyone suggest me how to remove DCU and HOBT from a reaction mixture??

28 February 2021 2,153 1 View

What is the most common number of epitopes in an multi-epitope Vaccine?

hi everyone, I'm interested in the field of vaccine design specifically multi-epitope cancer vaccines , I want to know if there is a minimum and maximum number of epitopes we could use in a...

27 February 2021 3,882 3 View

Runs of nucleotides in Sanger sequencing?

I performed site directed mutagenesis, transformation, and then I sent out plasmids for Sanger sequencing and found out that there is extension of DNA just before the stop codon. I am not sure...

27 February 2021 547 3 View