Electrochemical Determination of Carbofuran in Tomatoes by a Concanavalin A (Con A) Polydopamine (PDA)-Reduced Graphene Oxide (RGO)-Gold Nanoparticle (GNP) Glassy Carbon Electrode (GCE) with Immobilized Acetylcholinesterase (AChE)

A new biosensor method was developed to determine residual carbofuran in tomatoes in a rapid and convenient fashion based on immobilizing acetylcholinesterase (AChE) on an electrode modified by concanavalin A (Con A)/polydopamine (PDA)-reduced graphene oxide (RGO)-gold nanoparticle (GNP) nanocomposites. The specific binding between Con A and AChE was investigated by the Ellman method and cyclic voltammetry (CV). The synthesis of nanocomposites was monitored by ultraviolet-visible absorption spectroscopy, scanning electron microscopy (SEM), and electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (EIS). The results showed that, due to the specific binding and good electrical conductivity, the biosensor had 2.2 times higher bioactivity, leading to high sensitivity with a low Michaelis constant of 0.10?mM. Parameters that affect the response of the biosensor, such as the pH, enzyme loading, ionic concentration, and inhibition time, were optimized. When used for the detection of carbofuran, this biosensor showed a wide range of applicability from 5?µg/kg to 40?µg/kg with a detection limit of 0.012?µg/kg. In addition, the biosensor demonstrated good recovery values of 101% and 90% for 10?µg/kg and 100?µg/kg of the analyte, good stability, high repeatability, and a rapid detection time of 20?min for carbofuran in tomatoes, which provides significant advantages for future analysis.     

Fe-N共掺杂的碳纳米管串联空心球对氧还原反应的电催化

以ZIF-8为模板,通过表面包覆聚多巴胺、同时刻蚀ZIF-8中的Zn²⁺,形成空心球,在与三氯化铁络合后,经高温碳化和氨气热处理,得到了高比表面积的Fe-N共掺杂的碳纳米管串联的碳纳米空心球催化剂. 氨气不仅刻蚀碳基底提高比表面积,还可还原铁元素形成Fe₄N纳米粒子,提升了催化剂对氧还原反应的电催化活性,其氧还原半波电位达0.79 V,仅比商业Pt/C低60 mV,而且其稳定性和耐甲醇性更优于商业Pt/C,展示出良好的燃料电池应用潜力.     

Polytetrafluoroethylene‐jacketed stirrer modified with graphene oxide and polydopamine for the efficient extraction of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons

Steel stirrers jacketed with polytetrafluoroethylene can be regarded as an ideal substrate for stirrer bar sorptive extraction. However, it is still a great challenge to immobilize graphene onto a polytetrafluoroethylene stirrer due to the high chemical resistance of the surface of a polytetrafluoroethylene stirrer. We describe here a method to modify the surface of polytetrafluoroethylene stirrers with graphene. In this work, graphene was used as the sorbent due to its excellent adsorption capability for aromatic compounds, such as polycyclic aromatic compounds. Graphene was successfully immobilized onto polytetrafluoroethylene‐stirrer by a bio‐inspired polydopamine functionalization method. The graphene‐modified polytetrafluoroethylene‐stirrer shows good stability and tolerance to stirring, ultrasonication, strong acidic and basic solutions, and to organic solvents. The multilayer coating was characterized by scanning electronic microscopy and Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy. After the optimization of some experimental conditions, the graphene‐modified polytetrafluoroethylene stirrer was used for the stirrer bar sorptive extraction of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, in which the binding between the polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons and the graphene layer was mainly based on π–π stacking and hydrophobic interactions. The graphene‐modified polytetrafluoroethylene‐stirrer‐based stirrer bar sorptive extraction and high‐performance liquid chromatography method was developed for the determination of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons with great extraction efficiency, with enrichment factors from 18 to 62. The method has low limits of detection of 1–5 pg/mL, wide linear range (5–100 and 10–200 pg/mL), good linearity (R ≥ 0.9957) and good reproducibility (RSD ≤ 6.45%). The proposed method has been applied to determine polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in real dust samples. Good recoveries were obtained, ranging from 88.53 to 109.43%.     

Polydopamine‐Coated Porous Microspheres Conjugated with Immune Stimulators for Enhanced Cytokine Induction in Macrophages

Polydopamine‐coated porous microsphere (PPM) is investigated as a simple and versatile immobilization strategy for immune‐stimulating biomolecules to enhance delivery efficiency and immune‐stimulating effects such as cytokine induction in macrophages. The PPMs, with diameters of about 2 μm, exhibit simultaneous and efficient incorporation of biomolecules (nucleotides and proteins), which is comparable to that achieved using microspheres carrying biomolecules internally by virtue of their porous structure. Ovalbumin‐conjugated PPMs are internalized into macrophages efficiently and selectively via the phagocytic pathway, without any noticeable toxicity. Internalized CpG oligodeoxynucleotide (ODN)‐conjugated PPMs (PPM‐CpG) greatly enhance the induction of selected cytokines (TNF‐α and IL‐6) in RAW 264.7 cells compared to that by the soluble CpG ODN and ionic complexes. Therefore, PPMs generated in this study may serve as effective carriers of immune‐stimulating biomolecules such as diverse toll‐like receptor agonists.

     

氯霉素在过氧化聚多巴胺修饰电极上的电化学行为及测定

利用多巴胺(DA)的自聚反应在玻碳电极(GCE)表面形成聚多巴胺(PDA)膜,将聚多巴胺修饰电极浸入碱溶液中进行电化学处理,制得过氧化聚多巴胺修饰电极(OPDA/GCE)。通过方波伏安法直接测定氯霉素在OPDA/GCE上的电化学响应信号,得到待测溶液中氯霉素的浓度。对多巴胺的自聚时间、氯霉素在修饰电极上的电化学性质、测试条件、溶解氧的影响及去除方法等进行考察。结果表明,氯霉素在OPDA/GCE上的还原峰电流与其浓度在3.0×10-6~1.1×10-3mol/L范围内呈良好的线性关系,检出限(S/N=3)为7.8×10-7mol/L,牛奶和蜂蜜样品的加标回收率分别为83.4%~94.1%和91.5%~108.6%。该修饰电极制备方法简便易行、成本低、便于批量制备,用其检测氯霉素操作简单、选择性好。     

Applications of Polydopamine in Implant Surface Modification

There is great clinical demand for orthopedic and dental implant surface modification methods to prevent osseointegration failure and improve implant biological functions. Notably, dopamine (DA) can be polymerized to form polydopamine (PDA), which is similar to the adhesive proteins secreted by mussels, to form a stable bond between the bone surface and implants. Therefore, PDA has the potential to be used as an implant surface modification material with good hydrophilicity, roughness, morphology, mechanical strength, biocompatibility, antibacterial activity, cellular adhesion, and osteogenesis. In addition, PDA degradation releases DA into the surrounding microenvironment, which is found to play an important role in regulating DA receptors on both osteoblasts and osteoclasts during the bone remodeling process. Furthermore, the adhesion properties of PDA suggest its use as an intermediate layer in assisting other functional bone remodeling materials, such as nanoparticles, growth factors, peptides, and hydrogels, to form “dual modifications.” The purpose of this review is to summarize the recent progress in research on PDA and its derivatives as orthopedic and dental implant surface modification materials and to analyze the multiple functions of PDA.     

Stratified Polymer Brushes from Microcontact Printing of Polydopamine Initiator on Polymer Brush Surfaces

Stratified polymer brushes are fabricated using microcontact printing (μCP) of initiator integrated polydopamine (PDOPBr) on polymer brush surfaces and the following surface initiated atom transfer radical polymerization (SI‐ATRP). It is found that the surface energy, chemically active groups, and the antifouling ability of the polymer brushes affect transfer efficiency and adhesive stability of the polydopamine film. The stickiness of the PDOPBr pattern on polymer brush surfaces is stable enough to perform continuous μCP and SI‐ATRP to prepare stratified polymer brushes with a 3D topography, which have broad applications in cell and protein patterning, biosensors, and hybrid surfaces.

     

Glucose Biosensor Based on the Fabrication of Glucose Oxidase in the Bio-Inspired Polydopamine-Gold Nanoparticle Composite Film

A highly efficient enzyme immobilization method has been developed for electrochemical biosensors using polydopamine films with gold nanoparticles (AuNPs) embedded. This simple enzyme fabrication method can be performed in very mild conditions and stored in a long time with high bioactivity. The fabricated amperometric glucose biosensor exhibited a high and reproducible sensitivity, wide linear dynamic range and low limit of detection (LOD) (0.1 μmol·L^?1). A low value of 1.5 mmol·L^?1 for the apparent Michaelis‐Menten constant K^app_M was obtained. The high sensitivity, wide linear range, good reproducibility and stability make this biosensor a promising candidate for portable amperometric glucose biosensor.     

“Click & Seed” Approach to the Biomimetic Modification of Material Surfaces

A simple, versatile, protein‐repulsive, substrate‐independent biomimetic surface modification is presented that is based on the creation of a PEO brush on a polydopamine anchoring layer and its capacity for selective follow‐up modifications with various ligands using a copper‐catalyzed alkyne‐azide cycloaddition reaction. The desired surface concentration of peptide biomimetic ligands can be controlled by adjusting the peptide concentration in the reaction mixture, then measuring the activity of ¹²⁵I‐radiolabeled peptides that are immobilized on the substrates. The performance of the prepared substrates is tested in cell cultures with MEF cells and a human ECC line.