Recent Advances in Self‐Oscillating Polymer Material Systems

In 1996, we first reported self‐oscillating polymer gels exhibiting autonomous swelling‐deswelling oscillations driven by the Belousov‐Zhabotinsky reaction. In contrast to conventional stimuli‐responsive gels, the self‐oscillating gel can autonomously and periodically change its volume in a closed solution without any external stimuli. Since the first report, the novel concept of self‐oscillating gels has been expanded into various polymer and gel systems. Herein, we summarize recent advances in self‐oscillating polymers and gels.     

Explicit finite difference simulations for accelerating cross diffusion flow over a perpendicular shield with parabolic motion

The heat transfer phenomenon subject to thermos-diffusion effects convey important applications in the heating processes, extrusion systems, chemical processes and various engineering systems. The objective of current work is to observe the contribution of Soret and Dufour effects in oscillating shield for cross diffusion flow. The perpendicular shield with oscillating motion induced the flow. The magnitude of oscillations is assumed to be small so that laminar flow due to oscillating shield has been resulted. The motivations for addressing the thermos-diffusion phenomenon due to oscillating of shield are due to applications in oscillatory pumps, moving surface, metal detectors, power systems etc. The dimensionless problem is obtained via introducing the appropriate set of variables. The numerical outcomes are suggested by using the most interesting explicit finite difference scheme. The physical illustration for flow parameters is presented. Moreover, the aspect of physical quantities involving the flow are graphically reported.     

NiL(ClO4)2催化NaBrO3-MA-H3PO4体系振荡反应的研究

报道了一种反式Curtis环的镍(Ⅱ) 的配合物NiL(ClO4)2(L为2,4,4,9,11,11-六甲基-1,5,8,12-四氮杂环十四-1,5,8,12-四烯)催化NaBrO3-CH2（COOH）2（MA）-H3PO4体系的化学振荡反应。测得该体系的振荡范围,研究、分析了各物种浓度、自由基抑制剂和还原剂、Ag+、Hg2+以及温度对振荡反应的影响。结果表明Br-起重要动力学控制作用,在反应过程中有自由基、Br2产生并参与了反应。同时发现搅拌速度对反应有很大影响。该反应的振荡轨迹与经典BZ反应及其它四氮杂大环配合物催化的体系有所不同。     

Self-oscillating swelling and deswelling of polymer gels

Novel gel systems demonstrating rhythmically pulsatile mechanical motion similar to that of a heartbeat were developed. Self-oscillations of swelling and deswelling for the polymer hydrogels were realized by coupling pH and temperature sensitive hydrogels with a non-linear chemical reaction in the external solution media. The novel gel dynamics exhibiting cyclic and rhythmical oscillations may establish a new concept for functional materials that work under dynamic oscillating states.     

BZ类双催化及非催化化学振荡反应

本文报道以香草醛(以OA表示)为底物的双催化振荡反应以及以2,7-二羟基萘二酚(以DN表示)为有机底物的非催化振荡反应,对二类不同体系的振荡反应机理作了初步的探索。实验部分1.试剂和仪器实验中的反应物均采用分析纯,所有溶液均在去离子水中制备,测定时主要采用PXS-215型离子活度计,XWT-台式自动平衡记录仪。2.实验方法使用超级恒温槽,控制在所需温度下进行反应,以溴离子选择性电极测量并记录反应过程中电位随时间的变化来反映[Br~-]的变化,以Hg|Hg_2SO_4|K_2SO_4为参比电极,振荡现象也可以用HP8451紫外可见分光光度计测定特定波长的吸光率变化进行观察。     

Dynamic Environments as a Tool to Preserve Desired Output in a Chemical Reaction Network

Current efforts to design functional molecular systems have overlooked the importance of coupling out-of-equilibrium behaviour with changes in the environment. Here, the authors use an oscillating reaction network and demonstrate that the application of environmental forcing, in the form of periodic changes in temperature and in the inflow of the concentration of one of the network components, removes the dependency of the periodicity of this network on temperature or flow rates and enforces a stable periodicity across a wide range of conditions. Coupling a system to a dynamic environment can thus be used as a simple tool to regulate the output of a network. In addition, the authors show that coupling can also induce an increase in behavioural complexity to include quasi-periodic oscillations.     

Multimode Self‐Oscillating Vesicle Transformers

Engineering synthetic materials that mimic the complex rhythmic oscillatory behavior of living cells is a fundamental challenge in science and technology. Up to now, the reported synthetic model system still cannot compete with nature in oscillatory modes and amplitudes. Presented here is a novel alternating copolymer vesicle that exhibits drastic and multimode shape oscillations in real time, which are controlled by polymer concentrations and driven by the Belousov—Zhabotinsky oscillatory reaction, including swelling/deswelling, twisting/detwisting, stretching/shrinking, fusion/fission, and multiple division. Some of them, especially the fission oscillation, have not been observed before. In addition, the oscillation magnitude with regard to diameter is much larger than that of previously reported self‐oscillating vesicles. Such a self‐oscillating vesicle transformer would extend the complexity and capacity of membrane deformations in synthetic systems, approaching those of natural cells.     

2,7-二氨基萘-KBrO~3-H~2SO~4体系的非催化化学振荡反应

在酸性介质中,当一些有机物被KBrO_3氧化时,即使没有金属离子催化,也可以产生振荡反应,称为非催化Belousov-Zhabotinskii反应(B-Z反应)。本文研究2,7-二氨基萘-     

Evolved Colloidosomes Undergoing Cell‐like Autonomous Shape Oscillations with Buckling

In living systems, there are many autonomous and oscillatory phenomena to sustain life, such as heart contractions and breathing. At the microscopic level, oscillatory shape deformations of cells are often observed in dynamic behaviors during cell migration and morphogenesis. In many cases, oscillatory behaviors of cells are not simplistic but complex with diverse deformations. So far, we have succeeded in developing self‐oscillating polymers and gels, but complex oscillatory behaviors mimicking those of living cells have yet to be reproduced. Herein, we report a cell‐like hollow sphere composed of self‐oscillating microgels, that is, a colloidosome, that exhibits drastic shape oscillation in addition to swelling/deswelling oscillations driven by an oscillatory reaction. The resulting oscillatory profile waveform becomes markedly more complex than a conventional one. Especially for larger colloidosomes, multiple buckling and moving buckling points are observed to be analogous to cells.     

Analytical chemistry of nonlinear systems

Analytical methods for characterizing complex, nonlinear chemical systems are reviewed. Emphasis is on those aspects of systems which make their characterization more difficult than just measuring concentrations or simple reaction rates. Examples include phase transitions, oscillating chemical reactions, laser fluctuations, and electrochemical oscillations. Data reduction algorithms specific to such systems are described.     

A simplified model of oscillating electrolytes

Unstable electrophoretic transport leading to oscillations in concentration profiles occur in certain electrolyte systems known as oscillating electrolytes whose eigenmobilities are complex valued. The study of the nonlinear behavior of such systems is of great interest but is constrained due to a high degree of complexity in the governing equations. Here we present a simplified model of unstable electrophoretic transport in a binary system that reduces the governing equations to two partial differential equations only and does away with other equations that characterize acid–base dissociation reactions and electroneutrality. We present analytical expressions for electromigration fluxes and validate the model with full nonlinear simulations. The model exhibits similar nonlinear behavior as the actual unstable electrophoretic system under various initial disturbances. For comparison, we also show that similar modeling for a stable system predicts concentration profiles that quantitatively agree with its nonoscillating dynamics. Moreover, the unique feature of electromigration flux in oscillating electrolytes that unfolds from the modeling led us to find an elegant explanation of the instability mechanism. Our theory gives a qualitative understanding of the existence and growth of large oscillation patterns in oscillating electrolytes.     

CHEMIENERGIZED SPECIES IN PEROXIDASE SYSTEMS

Abstract— Several hemeprotein-catalyzed reactions generate products of the type expected from the cleavage of a high energy intermediate. For some systems, the formation, in high yield, of a carbonyl compound in its excited triplet state has been firmly established on the basis of (i) equivalence of the chemiluminescence and phosphorescence spectra of the expected products; (ii) energy transfer to sensitizers containing heavy atoms and (iii) occurrence of photoproducts. The excited species appears to be generated within the enzyme and shielded from quenching by oxygen. It may be quenched, however, via long-range triplet-singlet energy transfer.
This work strongly supports our hypothesis that excited electronic states are also formed in biological systems which are not necessarily bioluminescent. One of the functions which peroxidases may thus fulfill might be the utilization of the potential of photochemistry in the absence of light.     

Quasiresonance: switching internal energy transfer on and off

Quasiresonance involves a slow "external" switching on and off of an interaction between internal degrees of freedom described by action-angle variables having approximate resonances. The resonances or near-resonances spawn slow coordinates that fail to be adiabatic, but the remaining coordinates may be fast enough to have conserved actions. The interaction either can be imposed externally as a time dependent coupling or can arise autonomously due to interactions with other degrees of freedom. A resonance transformation into slow and fast angles reveals the action corresponding to the fast angle is adiabatic and conserved to very high accuracy. This paper extends our work on quasiresonance to new systems and regimes, including the He-H2 system, collisions with a periodic lattice, perturbative interactions, and discussion of quasiresonance in higher dimensional systems.     

On the Origin of Damped Electrochemical Oscillations at Silicon Anodes (Revisited)

Electrochemical oscillations accompanying the formation of anodic silica have been shown in the past to be correlated with rather abrupt changes in the mechanical stress state of the silica film, commonly associated with some kind of fracture or porosification of the oxide. To advance the understanding on the origin of such oscillations in fluoride‐free electrolytes, we have revisited a seminal experiment reported by Lehmann almost two decades ago. We thereby demonstrate that the oscillations are not stress‐induced, and do not originate from a morphological transformation of the oxide in the course of anodisation. Alternatively, the mechanical features accompanying the oscillations can be explained by a partial relaxation of the field‐induced electrostrictive stress. Furthermore, our observations suggest that the oscillation mechanism more likely results from a periodic depolarisation of the anodic silica.     

A microfluidic generator of dynamic shear stress and biochemical signals based on autonomously oscillatory flow

Biological cells in vivo typically reside in a dynamic flowing microenvironment with extensive biomechanical and biochemical cues varying in time and space. These dynamic biomechanical and biochemical signals together act to regulate cellular behaviors and functions. Microfluidic technology is an important experimental platform for mimicking extracellular flowing microenvironment in vitro. However, most existing microfluidic chips for generating dynamic shear stress and biochemical signals require expensive, large peripheral pumps and external control systems, unsuitable for being placed inside cell incubators to conduct cell biology experiments. This study has developed a microfluidic generator of dynamic shear stress and biochemical signals based on autonomously oscillatory flow. Further, based on the lumped-parameter and distributed-parameter models of multiscale fluid dynamics, the oscillatory flow field and the concentration field of biochemical factors has been simulated at the cell culture region within the designed microfluidic chip. Using the constructed experimental system, the feasibility of the designed microfluidic chip has been validated by simulating biochemical factors with red dye. The simulation results demonstrate that dynamic shear stress and biochemical signals with adjustable period and amplitude can be generated at the cell culture chamber within the microfluidic chip. The amplitudes of dynamic shear stress and biochemical signals is proportional to the pressure difference and inversely proportional to the flow resistance, while their periods are correlated positively with the flow capacity and the flow resistance. The experimental results reveal the feasibility of the designed microfluidic chip. Conclusively, the proposed microfluidic generator based on autonomously oscillatory flow can generate dynamic shear stress and biochemical signals without peripheral pumps and external control systems. In addition to reducing the experimental cost, due to the tiny volume, it is beneficial to be integrated into cell incubators for cell biology experiments. Thus, the proposed microfluidic chip provides a novel experimental platform for cell biology investigations.     

GA-KBrO3-H2SO4体系化学振荡的研究

研究了GA(没食子酸)-KBrO_3-H_2SO_4体系的诱导期τ、振荡周期T_2与反应物起始浓度的依赖关系, 302 K时的经验式为τ=22.8 c~(-2.23)_(H_2SO_4) c~(-2.17)_(KBrO_3) c~(0.795)_(GA) (mol.dm~(-3))~(4.25)·sT_2=0.84 c~(-2.28)_(H_2SO-4)c~(-1.97)_(KBrO_3) exp{(0.000147(mol.dm~(-3))~2/c~2_(GA)}(mol.dm~(-3))~(4.25)·sτ及T_2都随~CGA的增加而增长, 这与B-Z反应中关于有机物的结论不同。用循环伏安法研究该体系的结果表明, GA在诱导期结束时就基本上都被氧化为中间物, GA并不象前人所认为的是维持振荡的物种, 实际参与振荡的是由GA生成的物质。本文还研究了Fe(Phen)_3~(2+)对GA-KBrO_3-H_2SO_4体系振荡的影响, 发现Br~-振荡行为随Fe(Phen)_3~(2+)的浓度而变。低~CFe(phen)_3~(2+)时,Br~-的振荡行为与GA-KBrO_3-H_2SO_4体系的基本相似, 其特征是每个振荡周期内, Br~-振荡脉冲发生前是逐渐积累的。随着~CFe(phen)_3~(2+)的增大, Br~-出现另一特征的振荡行为, 在每个振荡周期内, Br~-振荡脉冲发生前是逐渐减小。我们认为, GA-KBrO_3-H_2SO_4-Fe(Phen)_3~(2+)体系的振荡不能单一地用OKN机理加以解释, 它可能是两套振荡机理耦合的振荡。     

Inhibitory Effects by Ascorbic Acid on the Oscillations of the Briggs?Rauscher Reaction

The Briggs? Rauscher oscillating reaction (in batch mode) has been shown to be sensitive to various antioxidants, some of which cause cessation of oscillations for a period of time, before a restart occurs. The length of time before oscillations restart is related to the type of antioxidant and its concentration. Procedures have been devised to apply this method as a tool for measuring antioxidant activities of pure compounds and of extracts of natural sources. The antioxidant activity in the Briggs? Rauscher system has been generally related to the reaction of an antioxidants with hydroperoxy radicals (HOO^.) present in the oscillating system. Thereby, at low concentration (<2×10^?4 M ), ascorbic acid is known to have a little effect on the reaction. However, there is a concentration range, where a nearly linear relation is observed between ascorbic acid concentration and inhibition time. We were able to model this type of inhibition by the reducing power of ascorbic acid without invoking a reaction with HOO^..     

Palladium-Catalyzed Asymmetric Alkylation in the Synthesis of Cyclopentanoid and Cycloheptanoid Core Structures Bearing All-Carbon Quaternary Stereocenters

General catalytic asymmetric routes toward cyclopentanoid and cycloheptanoid core structures embedded in numerous natural products have been developed. The central stereoselective transformation in our divergent strategies is the enantioselective decarboxylative alkylation of seven-membered β-ketoesters to form α-quaternary vinylogous esters. Recognition of the unusual reactivity of β-hydroxyketones resulting from the addition of hydride or organometallic reagents enabled divergent access to γ-quaternary acylcyclopentenes through a ring contraction pathway or γ-quaternary cycloheptenones through a carbonyl transposition pathway. Synthetic applications of these compounds were explored through the preparation of mono-, bi-, and tricyclic derivatives that can serve as valuable intermediates for the total synthesis of complex natural products. This work complements our previous work with cyclohexanoid systems.     

Brusselator的化学亲合势及熵产生的振荡

迄今为止,化学振荡的研究主要限于描述物质浓度的振荡,有关热力学量的振荡报导极少.这可能是由于振荡机理(或模型)中的热力学量无法确定的缘故.我们采用将标准化学亲合势作为可调参数的方法,并依据非平衡态热力学理论中热力学量与物质的浓度关系,使得热力学量振荡的研究变为现实.本文用计算机数值计算,得出了开放系Brusseltor各元反应的反应速率、化学亲合势及体系熵产生随时间的变化行为,展示了它们的振荡特征。     

A dual-frequency Belousov Zhabotinskii oscillating reaction with ethyl acetoacetate as organic substrate

The experimental behavior of the cerium- and manganese-catalyzed Belousov Zhabotinskii oscillating reaction with ethyl acetoacetate as organic substrate has been investigated. Under certain conditions the system displays two types of temporal oscillations. Damped highfrequency oscillations appear immediately after the addition of potassium bromate solution to complete the reaction mixture. These high-frequency oscillations may be regarded as being superimposed on an induction period of the type found in the reaction using malonic acid. After the induction period, low-frequency oscillations of the normal type are obtained. Both the high-frequency and the low-frequency oscillations can be monitored with a platinum redox or with a bromide specific ion electrode.