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 stability of 2 3-dihydroxyquinoxaline in acidic water?

I'm developing a UHPLC assay, and the fluorescent product is 2,3-dihydroxyquinoxaline. The reaction to produce this requires hydrochloric acid (about 1.2 M). Will storage in this acidic...

20 February 2021 5,820 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

Why does a Nested PCR protocol amplify samples and not amplify positive control?

I have this problem. Today I used a new positive control of an isolated NC-1 strain in cell culture and the problem persists. I performed a serial dilution test to test the sensitivity of the...

08 December 2020 6,252 2 View

what is the simplest definition of ion exchange capacity

What this unit identifies for the ion exchange capacity ca. 0.92 meq. g-1. I am a newcomer in the membrane area. I just started. I highly appreciate your help

08 May 2021 0 0 View

what is the simplest definition of ion exchange capacity

What this unit identifies for the ion exchange capacity ca. 0.92 meq. g-1. I am a newcomer in the membrane area. I just started. I highly appreciate your help

08 May 2021 0 0 View

Buffer to disrupt platelet alpha granules for PF4 quantification?

Hello! I want to quantify by ELISA the secreted (from platelets poor plasma) and the non-secreted (from platelet lysate) PF4 before and after TRAP stimulation. I will use the ELISA from R&D...

03 March 2021 1,499 2 View

What is the procedure to determine the permeability of concrete?

can anyone help me in this, it will help me with my research work

01 March 2021 834 3 View

How to remove the residual PDMS on the silicon mold?

Incompletely cross-linked pdms are difficult to remove.

01 March 2021 798 3 View

How to remove fatty material from plant extract?

The resultant solid was partitioned three times with 250 ml of petroleum ether (40-60/c) to remove any fatty material and evaporated to dryness.

28 February 2021 9,464 2 View

1 nm thick MgO thin-film to be deposited on Si wafer using thermal evaporation. What will be the optimum deposition conditions?

Favourable conditions of base pressure, rate of deposition. Also, by which characterisation technique to be used to verify the thickness of the deposited film.

28 February 2021 3,640 3 View

Dapi fluorescence protocol for colon cell lines ?

28 February 2021 2,534 2 View

What is the best solvent to remove PDMS from nano particles?

I want to remove PDMS oligomers from the surface of nanolayers. I have just read a very helpful paper about the compatibility of PDMS with different solvents( Solvent Compatibility of...

24 February 2021 7,845 5 View

Cloudy/high background western blot - can anyone help me?

Hi everyone! I try to detect VDR protein (~48 kDa) using Western Blot. After SDS-PAGE using 10% MP TGX Stain-Free Gel from BioRad I transferred the protein onto an metOH activated PVDF membrane...

23 February 2021 6,266 3 View