is it possible that supersaturated solutions are formed with the shake flask method leading to errors in the quantification of the solubility?

09 October 2015 6,151 6 View

How two melting peaks in DSC of polypropylene can be merged into one crystallization peak?

The figure shows DSC cooling (blue) and 2nd heating (green) curves (step: 10 K/min) for a commercial sample supplied as Atactic Polypropylene (APP). The heating curve illustrates two major...

03 March 2021 5,857 3 View

Is IMPACT FACTOR justified in case of Taxonomy?

There is huge pressure of getting good impact factor on scholars now a days. On the other hand Taxonomy is a very dry subject and the concerned papers can only get citation in same group of organism.

26 February 2021 5,851 1 View

Uncertianiny in using dry or wet basis in mixing a sediment with fuel oil?

Hello I'm currently working on a topic related to studying the anaerobic biodegradation of TPH in marine sediments. In this work, sediment should be mixed with fuel oil to a concentration of 20 g...

24 February 2021 9,839 3 View

Standard curve shifting over time. How do I stabilise the ELISA?

24 February 2021 1,365 3 View

How can I selectively dry etch Ti on a polymer substrate?

24 February 2021 5,378 1 View

How to reduce static electricity of powder after lyophilization?

I am working on synthesizing and then purifying peptides using the SPPS system. After purification of the peptide, the peptide powder is obtained using a freeze dryer. When measuring the powder,...

22 February 2021 10,099 5 View

Plant research: Watering uniformity/consistency. How important is it?

Trying to gather insight from an unresolved discussion with a colleague here, and either the available literature surrounding this topic and/or my keywords in search of are lacking. Context:...

21 February 2021 6,389 3 View

How does a freeze dryer destruct your solid sample?

Several times I lost my sample during freeze drying. There was no solid or powder in the vial after freeze drying. I'm sure sample contained solute because i took its NMR spectrum. I covered the...

15 February 2021 6,749 2 View

Problem in detection of a specific gene & elimination of primer dimer in qpcr?

In our lab, we are trying to do real time PCR for some genes. One of them has a size of 85 bp. Whatever we do, we had an amplification in negative control. When we run agarose gel, it always a...

14 February 2021 9,750 11 View

Can i use the " weight moisture" ( humidite ponderale in French) of plants to describe their efficiency in using water?

Weight moisture is : water content/ dry weight , if for example it is 4 it means that this plant have for each 1gam of dry mass 4 grams of water. can i use this to interpret the plant use of...

14 February 2021 5,784 1 View