Fluorescence response of hypocrellin B to the environmental changes in a mimic biological membrane—liposome

Liposome is well known as not only a drug-delivery system but also a simple model for biological membranes. It was reported that fluorescence properties of hypocrellins were changeable over some extreme pH values. In the current work, the effects of the microenvironments on the fluorescence properties of HB in liposome, including approximately physiological range of pH values pH = 6.0-8.0, concentration of cholesterols and ionic strength of the solution, were studied. It was found that the fluorescence intensity of HB was sensitive to and also regulated by the microenvironments. When concentration of cholesterols and ionic strength keep invariable in PBS solution, there exists the maximum for the fluorescence of HB-liposome at pH 7.4 while the minimum for that of HB at pH 7.0. In addition, when pH value keeps constant (7.2), there exists the maximum at the ionic strength of 0.12 mol/kg while that at the concentration of 6×10^?4 mol/L for cholesterols. On the other hand, in PBS solution, the lower the ionic strength is, the higher the fluorescence intensity is. The environment-sensitive fluorescence may be potentially applicable to probe some specific environmental features in cells or tissues.

     

Similar or different: the same Spiro-core but different alkyl chains with apparently improved device performance of perovskite solar cells

By intelligently utilizing the odd-even effect existing in the melting points of alkanes as presented in the basic textbook of Organic Chemistry, different alkoxy groups were introduced to modify the structure of commercial Spiro-OMeTAD to give new Spiro derivatives of Spiro-OEtTAD, Spiro-OPrTAD, Spiro-OiPrTAD and Spiro-OBuTAD, with the aim to adjust the molecular packing status in perovskite solar cells as hole transporting compounds. Excitedly, with the introduction of ethoxy groups instead of the methoxy ones in Spiro-OMeTAD, Spiro-OEtTAD-based perovskite solar cells demonstrated the highest device performance of 20.16%, higher than that of Spiro-OMeTAD(18.64%).     

钯催化合成嘧啶核苷衍生物的研究进展

嘧啶核苷衍生物在药物化学、生物探针和核酸化学的研究中具有重要的作用, 金属催化碳碳的形成广泛应用于嘧啶核苷衍生物的合成. 综述了钯催化的Sonogashira反应、Stille反应、Heck反应以及Hiyama反应在嘧啶类核苷衍生物合成中的应用.     

基于二阶段异质随机森林的汽油辛烷值预测

构建了基于二阶段异质随机森林的汽油辛烷值预测模型.首先利用样本-位点信息表知识约简模型,筛选出对汽油辛烷值影响大的位点数据作为第一阶段;然后,利用集成学习思想集成支持向量回归和动态时间序列神经网络,构建异质随机森林预测模型作为第二阶段.利用十折交叉法验证模型精度,结果表明该集成学习算法具有有效性和高精度.     

Fluorescence response of hypocrellin B to the environmental changes in a mimic biological membrane--liposome

Liposome is well known as not only a drug-delivery system but also a simple model for biological membranes. It was reported that fluorescence properties of hypocrellins were changeable over some extreme pH values. In the current work, the effects of the microenvironments on the fluorescence properties of HB in liposome, including approximately physiological range of pH values pH = 6.0-8.0, concentration of cholesterols and ionic strength of the solution, were studied. It was found that the fluorescence intensity of HB was sensitive to and also regulated by the microenvironments. When concentration of cholesterols and ionic strength keep invariable in PBS solution, there exists the maximum for the fluorescence of HB-liposome at pH 7.4 while the minimum for that of HB at pH 7.0. In addition, when pH value keeps constant (7.2), there exists the maximum at the ionic strength of 0.12 mol/kg while that at the concentration of 6×10⁻⁴ mol/L for cholesterols. On the other hand, in PBS solution, the lower the ionic strength is, the higher the fluorescence intensity is. The environment-sensitive fluorescence may be potentially applicable to probe some specific environmental features in cells or tissues.     

Site‐Resolved Cu2O Catalysis in the Oxidation of CO

The identification of the contribution of different surface sites to the catalytic activity of a catalyst nanoparticle is one of the most challenging issues in the fundamental studies of heterogeneous catalysis. We herein demonstrate an effective strategy of using a series of uniform cubic Cu₂O nanocrystals with different sizes to identify the intrinsic activity and contributions of face and edge sites in the catalysis of CO oxidation by a combination of reaction kinetics analysis and DFT calculations. Cu₂O nanocrystals undergo in situ surface oxidation forming CuO thin films during CO oxidation. As the average size of the cubic Cu₂O nanocrystals decreases from 1029 nm to 34 nm, the dominant active sites contributing to the catalytic activity switch from face sites to edge sites. These results reveal the interplay between the intrinsic catalytic activity and the density of individual types of surface sites on a catalyst nanoparticle in determining their contributions to the catalytic activity.     

TiO2/Cu2O Core/Ultrathin Shell Nanorods as Efficient and Stable Photocatalysts for Water Reduction

P‐type Cu₂O has been long considered as an attractive photocatalyst for photocatalytic water reduction, but few successful examples has been reported. Here, we report the synthesis of TiO₂ (core)/Cu₂O (ultrathin film shell) nanorods by a redox reaction between Cu²⁺ and in‐situ generated Ti³⁺ when Cu²⁺‐exchanged H‐titanate nanotubes are calcined in air. Owing to the strong TiO₂‐Cu₂O interfacial interaction, TiO₂ (core)/Cu₂O (ultrathin film shell) nanorods are highly active and stable in photocatalytic water reduction. The TiO₂ core and Cu₂O ultrathin film shell respectively act as the photosensitizer and cocatalyst, and both the photoexcited electrons in the conduction band and the holes in the valence band of TiO₂ respectively transfer to the conduction band and valence band of the Cu₂O ultrathin film shell. Our results unambiguously show that Cu₂O itself can act as the highly active and stable cocatalyst for photocatalytic water reduction.     

Retardation of Trap-Assisted Recombination in Lead Halide Perovskite Solar Cells by a Dimethylbiguanide Anchor Layer

Reaching the full potential of solar cells based on photo-absorbers of organic-inorganic hybrid perovskites requires highly efficient charge extraction at the interface between perovskite and charge transporting layer. This demand is generally challenged by the presence of under-coordinated metal or halogen ions, causing surface charge trapping and resultant recombination losses. These problems can be tackled by introducing a small molecule interfacial anchor layer based on dimethylbiguanide (DMBG). Benefitting from interactions between the nitrogen-containing functional groups in DMBG and unsaturated ions in CH₃NH₃PbI₃ perovskites, the electron extraction of TiO₂ is dramatically improved in association with reduced Schottky–Read–Hall recombination, as revealed by photoluminescence spectroscopy. As a consequence, the power conversion efficiency of CH₃NH₃PbI₃ solar cells is boosted from 17.14 to 19.1 %, showing appreciably reduced hysteresis. The demonstrated molecular strategy based on DMBG enables one to achieve meliorations on key figures of merit in halide perovskite solar cells with improved stability.     

风激下结构的紊流诱发振动

高耸结构群或桥梁部件在风激下，除了产生经典气动弹性效应外，还会引起结构或部件间的相互动力干涉作用，特别是由于上游结构振荡绕流所形成的紊流激励作用，使得处于尾流场中的结构或部件的动态性能与上游结构有明显的差别。文中报导弹性约束下两Ｈ型结构的气动干涉实验结果。依据实验观察到的主要特征分析风激干涉下结构的紊流诱发振动与随机动力稳定性，得出紊流随机响应的解析表达式以及用以确定临界风速的动力稳定性条件，计算     

Fluorescence response of hypocrellin B to the environmental changes in a mimic biological membrane——liposome

Hypocrellins (HA or HB) were well known as novel photosensitizers for photodynamic therapy (PDT). The investigations on their photophysical and photochemical properties have been carried out inten-sively in the past 20 years[1—4]. Intramolecular hydro-gen bonds are formed in a hypocrellin molecule, so are intramolecular proton transfers at the excited state, which has been proved to be essential for the fluores-cence emission of hypocrellins[5]. The two phenolic hydroxyl groups in a hypocr…