Origin and Prediction of Highly Specific Bond Cleavage Sites in the Thermal Activation of Intact Protein Ions

Predicting the fragmentation patterns of proteins would be beneficial for the reliable identification of intact proteins by mass spectrometry. However, the ability to accurately make such predictions remains elusive. An approach to predict the specific cleavage sites in whole proteins resulting from collision-induced dissociation by use of an improved electrostatic model for calculating the proton configurations of highly-charged protein ions is reported. Using ubiquitin, cytochrome c, lysozyme and β-lactoglobulin as prototypical proteins, this approach can be used to predict the fragmentation patterns of intact proteins. For sufficiently highly charged proteins, specific cleavages occur near the first low-basicity amino acid residues that are protonated with increasing charge state. Hybrid QM/QM′ (QM=quantum mechanics) and molecular dynamics (MD) simulations and energy-resolved collision-induced dissociation measurements indicated that the barrier to the specific dissociation of the protonated amide backbone bond is significantly lower than competitive charge remote fragmentation. Unlike highly charged peptides, the protons at low-basicity sites in highly charged protein ions can be confined to a limited sequence of low-basicity amino acid residues by electrostatic repulsion, which results in highly specific fragmentation near the site of protonation. This research suggests that the optimal charge states to form specific sequence ions of intact proteins in higher abundances than the use of less specific ion dissociation methods can be predicted a priori.     

基于伪模态转换的红外目标融合检测算法

为提高红外图像目标检测的精度和实时性,提出一种基于伪模态转换的红外目标融合检测算法.首先,利用双循环的生成对抗网络无需训练图像场景匹配的优势,获取红外图像所对应的伪可见光图像;然后,构建残差网络对双模态图像进行特征提取,并采取add叠加方式对特征向量进行融合,利用可见光图像丰富的语义信息来弥补红外图像目标信息的缺失,从而提高检测精度;最后,考虑到目标检测效率问题,采用YOLOv3单阶段检测网络对双模态目标进行三个尺度的预测,并利用逻辑回归模型对目标进行分类.实验结果表明,该算法能够有效地提高目标检测准确率.     

Halide Anion Triggered Reactions of Michael Acceptors with Tropylium Ion

Tropylium bromide undergoes noncatalyzed, regioselective additions to a large variety of Michael acceptors. In this way, acrylic esters are converted into β-bromo-α-cycloheptatrienylpropionic esters. The reactions are interpreted as nucleophilic attack of bromide ions at the electron-deficient olefins and the approach of the tropylium ion to the incipient carbanion. Quantum chemical calculations were performed to elucidate the analogy to the amine- or phosphine-catalyzed Rauhut–Currier reactions. Subsequent synthetic transformations of the bromo-cycloheptatrienylated adducts are reported.     

Chemical synthesis and characterization of manganese oxide coated Ni particles

Nanosized Ni particles with an average diameter of about 8 nm were prepared by reducing of NiCl 2 with sodium borohydride (NaBH 4 ) in aqueous solution. By moderate annealing in protective atmosphere, the composite grew up to be 15-20 nm particles. Both of the as-prepared and annealed Ni particles were coated by a layer of manganese oxide via decomposition reaction in aqueous KMnO4 solution. Hysteresis loops of as-prepared samples show a large increase in the magnetization with decreasing temperature and an unsaturated component at high magnetic field. In contrast, the ferromagnetic characteristics of annealed one are much stronger with large magnetization and coercivity. The thermomagnetic curves verified the coexistence of ferromagnetic Ni and antiferromangetic Mn oxide phases. But there exists no exchange bias behavior in the samples, even though the interface structure between the ferromagnetic Ni core and the antiferromagnetic manganese oxides has been distinctly formed. The absence of exchange bias probably originates from the weak ferromagnetic characteristic of Ni cores.     

SiO2@AgCl:Ag纳米复合材料:一种可见光催化降解罗丹明B的高效等离子体光催化剂

采用多元醇沉淀以及光化学还原法制备了SiO₂担载AgCl:Ag等离子体纳米粒子。通过表征发现SiO₂@AgCl:Ag粒子呈立方-四足角状。同时,由于表面Ag簇的等离子共振效应,该催化剂在可见光区有很强的光吸收,可用于在高效降解稳定的有机染料,例如,罗丹明B。合成的SiO₂@AgCl:Ag复合催化剂可在2 min内将罗丹明B分子完全降解。自由基捕获实验进一步探究发现O₂·^-和·OH是参与降解反应的主要氧化活性物种。以上SiO₂@AgCl:Ag的这些特性使其在水净化和环境治理方面有着潜在的应用。     

离子液体电沉积CuInxGa1-xSe2薄膜

采用循环伏安法(CV)对离子液体Reline中三元CuCl₂+InCl₃+SeCl₄体系和四元CuCl₂+InCl₃+GaCl₃+SeCl₄体系的电化学行为进行了研究。研究表明,In³⁺并入三元CIS(Cu-In-Se)薄膜体系和Ga³⁺并入四元CIGS(Cu-In-Ga-Se)薄膜体系均有两种途径：一是发生共沉积,二是直接还原。利用电感耦合等离子体发射光谱(ICP)和扫描电镜(SEM)对沉积电势、镀液温度和主盐浓度对CIGS薄膜组成、镀层表面形貌的影响进行了测试,结果表明通过工艺参数的选择可以控制Ga/(Ga+In)和CIGS薄膜组成并得到化学计量比为Cu_1.00In_0.78Ga_0.27Se_2.13的薄膜。     

酒石酸铅锆的制备、表征及其燃烧催化作用

以酒石酸、硝酸氧锆和硝酸铅为原料,合成出了双金属盐酒石酸铅锆,采用有机元素分析、X射线荧光光谱和FTIR对其进行了表征。在程序升温条件下,利用TG/DTG、DSC、固相原位反应池/FTIR联用技术,研究了酒石酸铅锆的热行为和热分解机理,描述了酒石酸铅锆的热分解过程,分析得出其最终分解产物为ZrO2、PbO和C。利用螺压工艺制备了含酒石酸铅锆的推进剂样品,研究了酒石酸铅锆对双基系推进剂燃烧性能的影响,分析了其燃烧催化作用。结果表明,酒石酸铅锆对双基系推进剂的燃烧具有良好的催化作用,是一种高效的燃烧催化剂;酒石酸铅锆热分解的最终产物PbO是催化燃烧的主要活性物质,推进剂燃烧过程中形成了氧化铅-铅循环催化体系,而锆和碳则起辅助催化的作用。     

复合离子交换再生剂FH-30的性能试验研究

采用自有的专利技术配制了复合离子交换再生剂FH-30,模拟工业锅炉软化水制备的工艺条件,研究了FH-30对软化水水质和运行周期的影响。动态模拟实验结果表明:在室温下,运行流速为35cm/min,再生剂用量不同时,运行周期基本不变,软水中钠离子和铵离子含量均随运行时间的增加而逐渐减少,当复合再生剂使用量为2.1g/mL树脂时,软化出水中的钠离子和铵离子摩尔比基本不变,复合再生剂可完全替代单一钠盐再生剂。通过对再生和失效后树脂层中钠离子和铵离子进行检测,验证了钠离子、铵离子在树脂层中没有出现累积现象。     

壳聚糖的改性及其纳米粒子的制备

通过壳聚糖上的氨基与硬脂酸和硫辛酸的羧基脱水缩合反应,将硬脂酸和硫辛酸接枝在壳聚糖上,引入的疏水性基团使修饰的壳聚糖具有两亲性。对修饰壳聚糖残留的自由氨基进行甲基化,使氨基的pKa值由6.6增加到6.8~7.1。修饰的壳聚糖在水介质中经超声分散即可形成纳米粒子,纳米粒子的Zeta电位为正值,说明修饰壳聚糖中残留的氨基和甲基化的氨基处于纳米粒子的表面。纳米粒子经二硫苏糖醇还原,然后经空气中的氧气氧化,在纳米粒子中形成二硫键交联结构。