What techniques can I use to determine the miscibility of polymer blends?

The term miscibility refers to the single-phase state in thermodynamics. I do not mean the compatibility of different components. To determine the miscibility I know several techniques such as...

03 March 2021 4,107 4 View

How to accurately determine the total content of carbon in ammonia-ammonium carbonate mixed solution?

How to accurately determine the total content of carbon in ammonia-ammonium carbonate mixed solution? When I am doing the experiment, I find it is difficult to accurately determine the total...

04 January 2021 2,694 1 View

Which is better in determining the effectiveness of artificial licks for wildlife detection in forested areas?

Hello, I'm planning for my future research study on artificial salt lick. The study site that I've selected for this study has been confirmed with no presence of natural salt lick, thus I plan to...

02 August 2020 5,609 1 View

Should I use the Nafion 211 as proton exchange membrance in microbial fuel cell?

I'm currently using Nafion 211 for the proton exchange membrane in my microbial fuel cell experiment. I found lots of articles recommended to use Nafion 117 instead. My experiment was failed,...

11 November 2019 9,326 3 View

How to calculate effect size in R with Metafor package?

07 October 2019 8,027 3 View

What kind of cells are suitable for cytotoxicity test of nanoparticles?

Hi everyone, I'm currently working on bone-targeting polymeric nanoparticles for treatment of osteoporosis. Just wondering what kind of human osteoblast (or other bone cells) are best suitable for...

03 October 2019 9,077 2 View

Where i can download data of protein/gene interaction networks, preferably in matlab format?

Dear friends, i am a researcher on numerical computation, especially interested on PageRank computation. Now, I am teaching in a agriculture university, thus i want to do some applications to...

27 August 2019 7,598 4 View

How to stain T cells for Ki67/Granzyme B and other surface activation markers together?

Could anyone help me with staining T cells for surface activation markers (CD69) and Ki67/Granzyme B at the same time? The Ki67 staining protocol requires 70% ethanol treatment which might be too...

13 August 2019 7,513 4 View

What is the optimal diameter of the beads for extracting fungal DNA?

I want to extract fungi and bacteria DNA from skin swab. Some articles used two 5mm steel beads per sample, some used 0.4-0.6mm ceramic beads per 0.5g sample. And other diameter for beads were...

05 August 2019 6,471 1 View

How do cancer cell migraton and invation?

Recently, I want to use transwell assay to study glioma cells migration and invation. I have looked for a lot of protocols. And there were different opinions. I didn't find a complete and...

07 July 2019 1,175 3 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

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

How can you bring two structures together to create an adhesive bond in LAMMPS?

I have created an Ice 1h crystalline structure and an Aluminium substrate structure and equilibrated both at 250K. Now I need to bring them together in a way that an adhesive bond is created....

01 March 2021 3,325 2 View

Why am i not getting solid after reacting APTES with salicylaldehyde?

The reaction of APTES with salicylaldehyde in ethanol leads to the formation of imine compound yellow solid which is mention in literature, but I am not getting yellow solid I don't know why? when...

28 February 2021 2,955 2 View

Necessary tube lenght to cool Natural gas in a dry-ice cooling bath?

I have a tank which contains natural gas at 250 Bar and 293 Kelvin. I want to cool the gas in a dry-ice cooling bath to about 195 Kelvin. The gas will flow in a copper-tube through the bath with a...

27 February 2021 8,128 1 View

How to best wash a 96-well plate containing microplastic?

I am planning my protocol for my dissertation for an experiment quantifying bacterial (E. coli) biofilm formation on micro-plastic (5mm discs of polyethylene bags) by conducting a crystal violet...

23 February 2021 7,868 2 View

Are there any known solvothermal methods to synthesize MoS2 nanosheets using solvents other than water (like ethanol/ethanol-water mixture) ?

I need to synthesize MoS2 nanosheets by alternate methods without pure water as a solvent.

22 February 2021 9,246 1 View

What is the best etching method for Mg-Ca alloy?

I have used Picral etchant (4.2 g Picric acid, 10 mL Acetic acid, 70 mL Ethanol, 10 mL distilled water) but it didn't work. Is there any alternative?

21 February 2021 2,558 5 View

Can ethanol be used as an analgesic?

If ethanol has analgesic properties, why isn't it used for clinical purposes?

18 February 2021 8,227 4 View

What is the best way to isolate Hydrolysable tannins on Sephadex column?

I am currently preparing to isolate polyphenolics (Hydrolysable tannins) from aqueous extract of a plant. I want to set up a small sephadex column to guide the major isolation on a laerge...

18 February 2021 1,455 3 View