Speciation analysis of platinum antitumoral drugs in impacted tissues

Chemical compounds containing platinum have been employed since 1978 as drugs to beat certain type of tumours. Nevertheless, besides of their exceptional antitumoral properties, these drugs also have important deleterious side effects, such as, nephrotoxicity and ototoxicity.A study of Pt accumulation and a speciation analysis has been performed by ICP-MS in samples from kidney and inner ear in a controlled population of Wistar rats treated with, either, cisplatin, carboplatin or oxaliplatin. The results on Pt accumulation point out to drug structure and not only to Pt content as the responsible for the alteration of organ functionality.Speciation studies in the samples from kidney and inner ear were performed coupling two-dimensional liquid chromatography (2D-LC) to ICP-MS. Size exclusion (SEC) and anion exchange fast protein liquid chromatography (FPLC) was employed for 2D orthogonal separation. After these separations, free drug peaks were not observed in any of the samples.The binding of Pt to biomolecules was demonstrated by SEC and, independently of the drug used, Pt eluted as two main bands with molecular weights of 12 kDa and 25-65 kDa for inner ear samples, and as two different bands with 20 kDa and 50-60 kDa in the samples from kidney. However, the relative band intensity presented important differences for the three drugs. Using the same chromatographic conditions, it was shown that a metallothionein (MT) standard eluted in the same position as some of the cytosolic Pt-biomolecules.High Pt-containing fractions eluting from the SEC column were analysed by anion exchange FPLC after a preconcentration step. Among the different preconcentration methods tested, sample focusing on the head of the FPLC column shows main advantages. In this way, the separation by 2D chromatography of the high molecular Pt-species has been considerably improved.     

AuPt Bipyramid Nanoframes as Multifunctional Platforms for In Situ Monitoring of the Reduction of Nitrobenzene and Enhanced Electrocatalytic Methanol Oxidation

Multifunctional metal nanostructures with a hollow feature, especially for nanoframes, are highly attractive owing to their high surface-to-volume ratios. However, pre-grown metal nanocrystals are always involved during the preparation procedure, and a synthetic strategy without the use of a pre-grown template is still a challenge. In this article, a template-free strategy is reported for the preparation of novel AuPt alloy nanoframes through simply mixing HAuCl₄ and H₂PtCl₆ under mild conditions. The alloy nanostructures show a bipyramid-frame hollow architecture with the existence of only the ten ridges and absence of their side faces. This is the first report of bipyramid-like nanoframes and a template-free method under mild conditions. This configuration merges the plasmonic features of Au and highly active catalytic sites of Pt in a single nanostructure, making it an ideal multifunctional platform for catalyzing and monitoring the catalytic reaction in real time. The superior catalytic activity is demonstrated by using the reduction of nitrobenzene to the corresponding aminobenzene as a model reaction. More importantly, the AuPt nanoframes can track the reduction process on the basis of the SERS signals of the reactants, intermediates, and products, which helps to reveal the reaction mechanism. In addition, the AuPt nanoframes show much higher electrocatalytic properties toward the methanol oxidation reaction than commercial Pt/C electrocatalysts.     

One-step synthesis of monodispersed Pt nanoparticles anchored on 3D graphene foams and its application for electrocatalytic hydrogen evolution

Although platinum-based materials are regarded as the state-of-the-art electro-catalysts for hydrogen evolution reaction(HER),high cost and quantity scarcity hamper their scale-up utilization in industrial deployment.Herein,a one-step strategy was developed to synthesize multi-walled carbon nanotubes and reduced graphene oxide supported Pt nanoparticle hydrogel(PtNP/rGO-MWCNT),in which only ascorbic acid was used as the reductant for one-pot reduction of both GO and chloroplatinic acid.The hydrogel can be directly used as a flexible binder-free catalytic electrode to achieve high performance of HER.Compared to conventional strategies,the current strategy not only significantly reduces the Pt loading to 3.48 wt%,simplifies the synthesis process,but also eliminates the use of any polymer binders,thus decreasing the series resistance and improving catalytic activity.An overpotential of only 11 mV was achieved on as-prepared PtNP/rGO-MWCNT to drive a geometrical current density of 10 mA/cm2 in0.5 mol/L H2 SO4,with its catalytic activity being kept over 15 h.In acidic medium,the HER activity of the PtNP/rGO-MWCNT catalyst exceeds most of the reported Pt-based electro-catalysts and is 3-fold higher than that obtained on commercial Pt/C electrode.     

有序介孔Sn-SBA-15负载铂催化剂上丙烷脱氢性能的提高

丙烷脱氢制丙烯能够将低级烷烃转变成烯烃,是有效扩大丙烯来源的生产工艺.铂锡催化剂用于丙烷催化脱氢的主要缺点是稳定性差、选择性低,通过稳定锡的氧化态可以大大改善催化剂的脱氢性能及稳定性.本文采用一锅水热合成法制备了一系列高比表面积具有高度有序介孔结构的Sn掺杂的Sn-SBA-15材料,并作为载体负载铂催化剂用于丙烷脱氢反应.同时利用传统浸渍法(IM)合成了Sn/SBA-15-IM材料作为对比.结合X射线衍射(XRD)、BET比表面积和孔体积测试、红外光谱(FT-IR)、X射线光电子能谱、H2程序升温脱附(H2-TPD)、热重分析(TGA)、扫描电镜和透射电镜等多种物理化学表征手段研究了Sn-SBA-15材料和催化剂的结构性质及其丙烷脱氢反应性能.XRD和BET比表面积和孔体积测试结果表明,水热合成法原位引入助剂Sn不影响载体SBA-15的有序孔道结构,同时能够保持较大的比表面积.传统浸渍法引入Sn会堵塞载体孔道,载体比表面积及孔道有序度下降.Sn掺杂进入SBA-15骨架能够增强Sn物种与载体的相互作用,有利于Sn物种在反应过程中保持氧化态,提高催化剂丙烷脱氢反应的活性及选择性.当Sn掺杂量增至2.0 wt％时,Pt,Sn组分与载体之间的相互作用减弱,催化剂中Sn0物种所占比例增多,导致催化剂丙烷脱氢性能下降.在丙烷脱氢反应过程中,一锅法引入Sn的催化剂上反应活性和稳定性明显优于浸渍法引入Sn的催化剂.其中,Pt/0.5 Sn-SBA-15催化剂表现出最优的丙烷脱氢性能,丙烷转化率为43.8％,丙烯选择性为98.5％.     

Interfacial Engineering in PtNiCo/NiCoS Nanowires for Enhanced Electrocatalysis and Electroanalysis

Searching for new anti-poisoning Pt-based catalysts with enhanced activity for alcohol oxidation is the key in direct alcohol fuel cells (DAFCs). However, in the traditional strategy for designing bimetallic or multimetallic alloy is still difficult to achieve a satisfactory heterogeneous electrocatalyst because the activity often depends on only the surface atoms. Herein, we fabricate the multicomponent active sites by creating a sulfide structure on 1D PtNiCo trimetallic nanowires (NWs), to give a PtNiCo/NiCoS interface NWs (IFNWs). Owing to the presence of sulfide interfaces, the PtNiCo/NiCoS IFNWs enable an impressive methanol/ethanol oxidation reaction (MOR/EOR) performance and excellent anti-CO poisoning tolerance. They have the MOR and EOR mass activities of 2.25 Amg^-1_Pt and 1.62 Amg^-1_Pt, around 1.26, 3.21 and 1.46, 2.96 times higher than those of PtNiCo NWs and commercial Pt/C, respectively. CO-stripping and XPS measurements further demonstrate that the new interfacial structure and optimal bonding of Pt−CO can result in accelerating the removal of surface adsorbed carbonaceous intermediates. Moreover, such a unique structure has also demonstrated a much-improved ability for the electrochemical detection of some important molecules (H₂O₂ and NH₂NH₂).     

Kinetic Isotope Effect as a Tool To Investigate the Oxygen Reduction Reaction on Pt-based Electrocatalysts – Part II: Effect of Platinum Dispersion

We investigated the oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) mechanism on Pt nanoparticles (NPs) dispersed on several carbon blacks with various physicochemical properties (i. e. specific surface ranging from 80 to 900 m² g⁻¹, different graphitization degree, etc.). Using the kinetic isotope effect (KIE) along with various electrochemical characterizations, we determined that the rate determining step (RDS) of the ORR is a proton-independent step when the density of Pt NPs on the surface of the carbon support is high. Upon decrease of the density of Pt NPs on the surface, the RDS of the ORR starts involving a proton, as denoted by an increase of the KIE >1. This underlined the critical role played by the carbon support in the oxygen reduction reaction electrocatalysis by Pt supported on high surface area carbon.     

Octahedral and Cubic Gold Nanoframes with Platinum Framework

Herein, we report a general synthetic pathway to various shapes of three‐dimensional (3D) gold nanoframes (NFs) embedded with a Pt skeleton for structural rigidity. The synthetic route comprises three steps: site‐specific (edge and vertex) deposition of Pt, etching of inner Au, and regrowth of Au on the Pt framework. Site‐specific reduction of Pt on Au nanoparticles (NPs) led to the high‐quality of 3D Au NFs with good structural rigidity, which allowed the detailed characterization of the corresponding 3D metal NFs. The synthetic method described here will open new avenues toward many new kinds of 3D metal NFs.     

Pt-FeOx催化剂微结构对催化CO氧化性能的影响

借助较为成熟的纳米技术手段,采用PVP为保护剂、乙二醇为还原剂制备具有不同Pt/Fe比例的双金属纳米粒子,最终通过氧化处理获得具有不同微结构环境的纳米Pt-FeO_x催化剂,并以此为模型考察它们对CO氧化性能的影响。结果表明FeO_x物种的数量一方面影响Pt物种的价态,同时也影响Fe物种自身的氧化还原性质,这些性质直接和间接地影响着CO和氧分子的活化,Pt周围适量FeO_x物种的存在对构建高活性CO氧化催化剂有利。     

铂基团簇Pt3X(X=Al，Si，Cu)催化水制氢及其水解副产物氧化CO

本文基于第一性原理研究了利用具有幻数结构特点的Pt₃X(X=Al,Si,Cu)团簇仅通过一步反应就能催化分解水制氢的反应过程. 吸附物H₂O@Pt₃X团簇在波长300∽760 nm的紫外和可见光范围内有强吸收,表明太阳光可以方便地用于Pt₃X的催化水解制氢的反应. 此外,水解后滞留在团簇上的O原子可在反应活化能为0.34∽0.58 eV内与CO氧化反应生成CO₂. 这个通过氧化消除“毒性”CO的结果表明了反应副产物有能作催化剂的循环再利用能力. 本文发现生成的CO₂分子还可以在323 K的温度下脱离Pt₃X小团簇.