Category: 6. Chemistry

Mechanical properties of hydrogel for various mixing ratios

Polymers like hydrogels rely on interactions between monomers and crosslinkers to form polymer networks. Crosslinkers play a crucial role in linking monomers and form a structured network…

Characterization results

XRD

Figure 2 illustrates the X-ray diffraction (XRD) patterns of synthesized nanocomposite samples MP600 (Fig. 2A) and MP800 (Fig. 2B). The identified peaks in both samples matched the standard diffraction patterns of…

Design of experiment

DoE offers clear advantages over the traditional OFAT approach in the fabrication of electrospun nanofibers for drug delivery. DoE enables simultaneous optimization of multiple parameters, demonstrating the interactions…

Cell culture

Cerebral microvascular endothelial cells (HBEC 5i) were purchased from ATCC (CRL-3245, USA) and cultured up to the 9th passage in DMEM/F12 (Gibco, UK) medium supplemented with 10% fetal bovine serum (FBS, Gibco, UK),…

The UK is facing a drought. I’m not talking about the paucity of rainfall this summer but the way in which undergraduate chemistry provision across the country is starting to dry up. With cash-strapped universities discontinuing courses or…

Researchers in the UK have developed a transformer-based model for quickly predicting the physical properties of molecular crystals. Called Molecular Crystal Representation from Transformers, or MCRT for short, the team behind the model liken it…

The closure of university chemistry departments and courses in the UK is leading to the emergence of ‘cold spots’, areas where the subject cannot be studied within a reasonable travel time, the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) has…

Synthesis

Designed MPA conjugates include selected, naturally occurring phenolic moieties with various functional groups in their side chains, affecting their overall bioactivity. Their syntheses are shown in Fig. 2. The synthesized compounds…

Characterization of La@TG

The FTIR spectrophotometer was leveraged to identify the functional groups in the TG extract and La@TG (Fig. 1a). The similarity of most peaks in both spectra indicates the presence of the same chemical bonds in the…

Spectral characteristic

Lacidipine exhibits native fluorescence with a maximum excitation wavelength at 281 nm and an emission maximum at 430 nm, as shown in Fig. 3. The acid-induced degradation product of lacidipine displays its own…