World-First Experiment That Infected People With Coronavirus Shares Early Results

Cortez Deacetis

Scientists deliberately contaminated youthful, healthy volunteers with SARS-CoV-2, the coronavirus that will cause COVID-19 – and now, they’ve shared their 1st results from that experiment.      The new research, released Tuesday (Feb. 1) in Springer Nature’s preprint database, In Critique, has not however been peer-reviewed, but it could offer insight into how […]

Experiment to Teach Multiple Melting Phenomena in Semicrystalline Polymers Using Differential Scanning Calorimetry

Cortez Deacetis

Abstract This article describes a laboratory experiment used to investigate the phenomenon of multiple melting in polymers. The experiment is aimed at the level of senior undergraduate chemistry students able to carry out the investigation in a research-style approach, working together in small groups. The experiment highlights characteristic thermal behavioral […]