How does the performance of AgNPs vary when they are directly coated on a substrate vs when they are embedded in solid matrices before application?

Is the surface area and accessibility entirely different in these two cases? If yes, then, does that have a significant influence on the performance? Since my work pertains to antibiofouling...

07 December 2020 6,285 3 View

Is there any correlation between the chemical nature of coating agent and incorporated nanoparticles, in terms of performance, for surface coatings?

Generally, the inclusion of nanoparticles in paints and coatings is meant to uplift the properties of the latter. Is there any such report where the chemical nature of the coating agent might...

03 December 2020 1,545 7 View

Can I use a stainless steel plate as a counter electrode during water oxidation/oxygen reduction reactions (in basic media)?

30 January 2016 5,865 10 View

How can I perform photoelectrochemical water splitting with top illumination?

In our lab, we have a vertical light source. For PEC water splitting, light should fall directly on the working electrode. So generally horizontal light source is used and the electrode is kept...

09 January 2015 542 5 View

Which filter paper is best to get Graphene oxide film or is there any way to get GO film from GO solution?

I am trying to get GO film from GO solution (water). I tried to filter it using Polyamide filter paper but the GO film sticks to the filter paper and it's hard to separate the film even after...

21 May 2014 9,003 7 View

What is the effect of dispersibility of the core for better shell formation around it?

Consider two nanoparticles one of which is dispersible in some solvent and another is not. Now if one wants to form a shell around that nanoparticle, for which one among the above two would it be...

18 May 2014 1,069 2 View

I would like to know whether your focus is specific to habitat or ecological niche for collection of samples?

Congratulations for choosing such an important aspect of Plant Biology. We are working on Fern rhizosphere metagenomics and would love to collaborate with this endeavour.

01 January 1970 8,689 6 View

What kind of fluid could I use for a pitfall trap that also does not invalidate molecular testing?

Hi, I want to start testing pitfall trap to obtain ants samples, but I need to conduct molecular analysis on those insects. So, what kind of fluid can I use? Ethanol expires too early and I need...

03 March 2021 5,978 5 View

What are the most reliable approaches to extract key continuous frames from a video, with complete automation?

I have an input video, of skin (from a microscope that means it is magnified such that blood capillaries are visible). The idea is to extract 15 sec of continuous frames from a video of 1 min,...

02 March 2021 2,735 2 View

Does Napabucasin soluble in dichloromethane and in ethanol?

I need to prepare a solution of Napabucasin (inhibitor of cancer cell stemness) in dichloromethane. The drug is expensive, so maybe somebody already tried to do it. If it is soluble, what is the...

02 March 2021 9,945 3 View

Which is the best place in the world for the plant biotechnology research?

I am searching for a good place for the Post Doc,

02 March 2021 4,053 3 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

How can extract ciprofloxacin hydrochloride disolve in water er to organic solvent such as dichloromethan or any other solvent?

I need a procedure to extract the ciprofloxacin hydrochloride from aqueous solution by using dichloromethane in detail,. I thank you very much.

01 March 2021 4,306 1 View

Which bacteria are suitable for quorum sensing screening?

I want to find a quorum sensing inhibitor from plant extracts. Klebsiella pneumoniae, Moraxella catarrhalis, Staphylococcus aureus, and Streptococcus pneumoniae. I looked for these strains...

01 March 2021 7,675 3 View

Isolates of Hymenoscyphus fraxineus?

Dear Dr. Cai, my name is Simone Prospero and I work in the team of Phytopathology at the Swiss Federal Institute for Forest Snow and Landscape Research (WSL;...

01 March 2021 1,133 1 View

How to perform statistical analysis of coefficients extracted from transform techniques?

I am studying the potential of DCT and FFT coefficients extracted from a signal to classify the different objects that emit the signal. I applied the Shapiro-Wilk to confirm that data was not...

01 March 2021 8,079 2 View

Where to find data on trees in tropical agroforestry?

Hi, I'm looking for data (mainly related to management: growth rate, canopy size, soil and climate preferences, etc.) about tropical trees used in tropical agroforestry. Have you ever heard about...

28 February 2021 7,356 8 View