藻蓝蛋白原位还原Ag(Ⅰ)与纳米Ag(0)形成动态过程的谱学研究

在4℃避光条件下,将藻蓝蛋白(简称PC)与AgNO3作用,通过UV,FS,FTIR等谱学方法研究了PC与Ag(工)原位还原与纳米Ag(0)粒子形成的动态过程.结果显示:PC在615 nm的特征吸收峰强度明显减弱,并随Ag(Ⅰ)浓度增加和时间延长单调降低;PC的荧光发射峰和荧光激发峰也均呈现衰减趋势.同步荧光光谱观察到纳米Ag(0)粒子形成的动态过程.用TEM观察到所形成的Ag(0)分散于PC表面,形成PC为核,纳米银为壳部分包覆的生物缀合物,粒子呈球形,有较窄的分布尺寸,粒径在15～30 nm之间.     

藻蓝蛋白对Au(Ⅲ)原位还原与纳米Au(0)形成动态过程的谱学研究

在4℃、避光条件下,将藻蓝蛋白(PC)与AuCl₃作用,通过UV、FS、FT-IR等谱学方法研究了PC与Au(Ⅲ)作用的动态过程,结果显示:PC在615nm的特征吸收峰强度明显减弱,并随Au(Ⅲ)浓度增加和时间延长单调降低;PC的荧光发射峰和荧光激发峰也均呈现衰减趋势.同时通过TEM观察到纳米Au(0)粒子形成,纳米金基本呈球形,有较窄的分布尺寸,粒径在20 nm左右,均匀地分散于PC中,这是PC原位还原Au(Ⅲ)所形成的.     

Microdroplet targeting induced by substrate curvature

Fundamental understanding of the wettability of curved substrates is crucial for the applications of microdroplets in colloidal science, microfluidics, and heat exchanger technologies. Here we report via lattice Boltzmann simulations and energetic analysis that microdroplets show an ability of transporting selectively to appropriate substrates solely according to substrate shape(curvature), which is called the substrate-curvature-dependent droplet targeting because of its similarity to protein targeting by which proteins are transported to the appropriate destinations in the cell. Two dynamic pathways of droplet targeting are identified: one is the Ostwald ripening-like liquid transport between separated droplets via evaporating droplets on more curved convex(or less curved concave) surfaces and growing droplets on less curved convex(or more curved concave) surfaces, and the other is the directional motion of a droplet through contacting simultaneously substrates of different curvatures. Then we demonstrate analytically that droplet targeting is a thermodynamically driven process. The driving force for directional motion of droplets is the surface-curvature-induced modulation of the work of adhesion, while the Ostwald ripening-like transport is ascribed to the substrate-curvature-induced change of droplet curvature radius. Our findings of droplet targeting are potentially useful for a tremendous range of applications, such as microfluidics, thermal control, and microfabrication.