非线性光学方法在电化学研究中的应用

非线性光学方法在电化学研究中的应用杨勇，林祖赓（固体表面物理化学国家重点实验室，厦门大学化学系３６１００５）近年来，由于大功率脉冲型激光器的发展，非线性光学方法在表面科学及电化学中的应用逐步得到重视并有了较快的发展。不少的实验事实已经表明，由于其独特...     

扫描电化学显微镜及其在界面电化学研究中的应用

对扫描电化学显微镜(Scanning Electrochemical Microscope，SECM)的发展及其在界面电化学中的研究应用进行了评述。介绍了SECM的工作原理以及常用的操作模式，并对SECM在液／液界面、固／液界面等方面的应用进行了总结。     

组合化学在开发纳米材料以及纳米生物医学研究中的应用进展

组合化学是一种将计算机辅助设计、有机化学合成以及高通量筛选一体化的技术. 它以高效、微量、高度自动化的特点而受到世人瞩目, 对药物研发中加速寻找先导化合物起到了极大的推进作用. 近年来随着纳米技术的迅速发展, 组合化学策略和高通量技术也在此领域中得到应用. 为在今后的研究中能够更好地将组合化学技术应用于纳米材料和纳米技术研究领域, 本文综述了组合化学在开发新型纳米材料以及通过对纳米材料进行表面化学修饰来提高其在生物医学领域的应用研究进展, 并对目前应用于纳米技术研究的高通量筛选技术, 如磁共振成像、自动化基因芯片系统和荧光激活细胞分类术以及对纳米组合化学目前遇到的一些挑战进行了简单概括, 并对其未来的发展趋势提出了展望.     

非标记凝血酶阵列电化学适体传感器的研究

基于自制的集成化三阵列金膜电极,构建了一个简单、灵敏、非标记的凝血酶阵列电化学适体传感器。以聚乙烯不干胶掩膜版法结合金属溅射沉积技术,在FR-4玻璃纤维板上制作了由3个金膜工作电极、1个大面积金膜对电极和1个厚膜Ag/AgCl参比电极构成的集成化金膜阵列电极系统。以集成化金膜阵列电极作为基础电极,采用巯基自组装技术将带巯基的凝血酶适体固定在3个金工作电极表面,巯基己醇封闭后获得三阵列凝血酶适体传感器,以电活性物质铁氰化钾作为电化学探针,基于凝血酶适体和凝血酶结合前后铁氰化钾在电极表面传质的不同导致电流变化进行凝血酶的测定。采用方波脉冲伏安法,铁氰化钾氧化峰电流的变化值与凝血酶浓度在1.52~63 nmol/L范围内呈良好的线性关系,检出限(S/N=3)为0.92 nmol/L。     

非标记凝血酶阵列电化学适体传感器的研究

基于自制的集成化三阵列金膜电极,构建了一个简单、灵敏、非标记的凝血酶阵列电化学适体传感器。以聚乙烯不干胶掩膜版法结合金属溅射沉积技术,在FR-4玻璃纤维板上制作了由3个金膜工作电极、1个大面积金膜对电极和1个厚膜Ag/AgCl参比电极构成的集成化金膜阵列电极系统。以集成化金膜阵列电极作为基础电极,采用巯基自组装技术将带巯基的凝血酶适体固定在3个金工作电极表面,巯基己醇封闭后获得三阵列凝血酶适体传感器,以电活性物质铁氰化钾作为电化学探针,基于凝血酶适体和凝血酶结合前后铁氰化钾在电极表面传质的不同导致电流变化进行凝血酶的测定。采用方波脉冲伏安法,铁氰化钾氧化峰电流的变化值与凝血酶浓度在 1.52~63 nmol/L范围内呈良好的线性关系,检出限(S/N=3)为0.92 nmol/L。     

银电极在电化学分析研究中的应用

银电极（包括裸银电极、修饰银电极）因其特有的物理化学性质和电化学性能,被广泛用于伏安分析、光谱／波谱电化学和压电传感器等电化学分析领域。本文对某在这些领域中的研究和应用进行了综述,引用文献一百余篇。     

电化学方法研究贮氢电极合金的P—C—T曲线

根据电化学和热力学的基础理论,考虑了氢气的逸度、碱液中水的活度以及碱液中水蒸汽的分压等影响因素,精确计算了金属氢化物电极反应的能斯特方程。结合三电极测试体系,建立了一套贮氢电极合金的P-C-T曲线电化学测定方法,并给出实验操作及相关参数确定的细节。该方法适用于涉及到大量实验工作的贮氢电极合金的成分优化及工艺研究。     

硫堇与DNA分子相互作用的电化学方法研究

采用交流阻抗技术和循环伏安法 ,研究了在硫堇自组装膜修饰金电极上 ,以及在硫堇或DNA吸附修饰的玻碳电极上 ,硫堇与DNA分子的相互作用;硫堇自组装膜修饰金电极与DNA分子作用后 ,阻抗增大 ,表明它们之间发生了作用 ;吸附在玻碳电极上的硫堇 (DNA)与DNA(硫堇 )作用后 ,峰电位和峰电流均发生了变化 ,结合光谱测定结果 ,表明硫堇与DNA分子间存在着嵌插、静电等作用 ,二者作用的反应速度与分子在电极上固定的位置有关;在PBS缓冲液中硫堇 -DNA的表观结合常数为4.9×104L·mol -1 ;交流阻抗技术和循环伏安法是研究小分子与DNA分子间相互作用的经济、快速、简便的方法     

铜电极在含苯并三唑的硼砂-硼酸缓冲溶液中的光电化学行为研究

用光电化学方法研究了铜电极在含苯并三唑(BTA)的硼砂—硼酸缓冲溶液中的光电化学行为.BTA能使铜电极的光响应由p-型转变为n-型.产生光响应的原因是铜电极表面的Cu_2O膜, 当BTA存在时由于BTA的作用致使电极表面Cu_2O膜中共存着P-型和n-型区域,电位正移和频率增加导致电极显示n-型光响应.     

甲苯胺蓝在SDS胶束中的电化学行为研究

在玻碳电极上研究了甲苯胺蓝(TB)及其在SDS胶束中的电化学行为,并与其直接电化学行为进行了比较。研究结果表明,TB在玻碳电极上的电极反应为2电子可逆氧化还原反应过程。通过介质pH对TB电极反应过程影响的研究,确定在pH<4.2,4.25.9时,参与电极过程的质子数分别为3,2和1,同时给出了TB解离常数K1与K2分别为1.68×10-5和1.93×10-6。在浓度分别为0.05mol.dm-3和0.1mol.dm-3PBS缓冲溶液中,TB在SDS浓度接近其临界胶束浓度(CMC)附近时,其还原峰电流(Ipc)和还原峰电位(Epc)随SDS浓度的增加而降低和负移。在大于CMC浓度时,其还原峰电流(Ipc)和还原峰电位(Epc)随SDS浓度的增加而上升和正移,之后出现了一个平台段。同时还测定了TB及其在胶束体系中的扩散系数D及电极反应速率常数Kf,并对SDS胶束对TB电化学行为的影响因素给出了合理的理论解释。     

Combinatorial Materials Science and Catalysis

After forever changing the drug discovery process in the pharmaceutical industry, combinatorial chemistry methodologies are increasingly being applied to the discovery and optimization of more efficient catalysts and materials (see picture). With the advent of new combinatorial synthesis and screening technologies, coupled with integrated data management systems, the application of these technologies to materials science and catalyst research holds tremendous potential and brings high expectations to this new and exciting field.     

Discovery and Optimization of Heterogeneous Catalysts by Using Combinatorial Chemistry

A novel ceramic array microreactor system has been designed and, in conjunction with resonance-enhanced multiphoton ionization (REMPI), used for the discovery of an optimum ternary catalyst composition for the dehydrogenation of cyclohexane to benzene. The catalyst library consisted of 66 ternary combinations of Pt, Pd, and In loaded on γ-Al₂O₃ pellets. The optimum catalyst for the production of benzene had the composition 0.8 % Pt, 0.1 % Pd, and 0.1 % In (see diagram). The preparation and screening of the library of 66 catalysts took about 2.5 days to complete—with conventional methods this would have taken several months!     

Parallel Synthesis and Testing of Catalysts under Nearly Conventional Testing Conditions

Acceleration by one to two orders of magnitude for catalyst development without much loss of information: Parallelized synthesis and screening has been used to evaluate catalysts for the room-temperature oxidation of CO. The overall process was highly reproducible, and the data quality is comparable to that of conventional testing. The graph shows the results of parallel testing of Au/Co₃O₄ catalyts at 25°C (y=yield of CO₂).     

Combinatorial synthesis of thin mixed oxide films and automated study of their piezoelectric properties

The development of an automated production of thin films and the characterization of their piezoelectric properties in high-throughput are described. A library of 50 undoped as well as doped lead zirconate titanate Pb(Zr,Ti)O₃ (PZT) coatings was produced by sol deposition. Afterwards, the piezoelectric properties of the library films were analyzed by automated atomic force microscopy employing the ultrasonic piezo-mode.     

High-throughput Screening:Synthesis of a Novel Fluorescent Microspheres

As one of efficient analytes, fluorescent microspheres have shown much usability on many biochemical and biomedical processes. Recent applications with fluorescent microspheres have included cytokine quantitation, single nucleotide polymorphism genotyping, phosphorylated protein detection, and characterization of the molecular interaction of nuclear receptors. These,coupled with the rapid advances in molecular biology and synthesis techniques of drugs, have presented a basis for drug screening in a high-throughput format. Based on fluorescent microspheres,earlier assay formats of HTS relied mainly on proximity-dependent energy transfer including scintillation proximity assay (SPA) (Amersham Pharmacia Biotech) and FlashPlatesTM (NEN Life Science Products, Boston, MA). Indeed, drug screening-based such fluorescent emission is still accounting for about 20～50% of current content of high-throughput screening (HTS). Now, SPA is almost a standard technique in common HTS-lab. In literature, SPA microspheres is generally prepared from inorganic scintillators such as yttrium silicate and hydrophobic polymers such as polyvinyl toluene. However, in HTS research, such microspheres often show the disadvantages of strong hydrophobicity and low quantum efficiency. The strong hydrophobicity is mainly attributed to the hydrophobic monomer, vinyl toluene. The low quantum efficiency can be as a result of low transparence of the polymer, polyvinyl toluene. Thus, the subsequent treatments for such microspheres, so as coat a polyhydroxy film to decrease the hydrophobicity, are actually considerably complicated.It has been well known that poly(methyl methacrylate) (PMMA), a good biocompatible polymer with not only adequate mechanical strength but also excellent transparence, can be regarded as an ideal candidate material for fluorescent matrix. In present study, methyl methacrylate as monomer and 2,5-diphenyloxazole (DPO) as fluorescent dye were used to the fluorescent microspheres. In guaranteeing the hydrophilicity of microsphere surfaces, dispersion polymerization was in common use (stabilizer, Polyvinyl pyrrolidone). As is apparent, with such a method in hand, one would normally find that almost no subsequent treatment for microspheres can be involved. Also such a novel fluorescent microspheres is a more suitable and the method used in present research is more practical method in comparison to common method. As the original work, the purposes of this article are to synthesize such fluorescent microspheres and probe the probable roles of synthesis conditions on microsphere synthesis. The effects of stabilizers, initiators, dispersion mediums, monomer content, and reaction temperature on the synthesis process and the particle size, as well as its panicle distribution have been shown. Also the probable role of fluorescent dye in the polymerization has been thermodynamicaily discussed.     

Discovery of Novel Catalysts for Alkene Epoxidation from Metal-Binding Combinatorial Libraries

New lead structures for olefin oxidation catalysts have been obtained from a combinatorial library of 5760 metal–ligand complexes (see the microscopy picture). Iron complexes led to clean epoxide product formation using H₂O₂ as the terminal oxidant. Parallel libraries were used to determine ligand features important for high catalytic activity and to identify enantioselective catalyst structures (see the Equation).     

Combinatorial electrochemistry using metal nanoparticles: from proof-of-concept to practical realisation for bromide detection

Principles and practical application of combinatorial electrochemistry in search for new electroactive materials in electroanalysis have been explored. Nanoparticles of three different metals: silver, gold and palladium have been independently synthesized on the glassy carbon spherical powder surface by electroless deposition process and characterized using both spectroscopic and electrochemical techniques. These three materials were then combined together onto basal plane pyrolytic graphite electrode surface and the application of the combinatorial approach to find the electrode material for bromide detection as model target analyte was demonstrated. The component electroactive for bromide detection was next identified and it was found that silver nanoparticles were the active ones. A composite electrode based on silver nanoparticle modified glassy carbon powder and epoxy resin was then fabricated and it was found to allow accurate determination of bromide. The electroactivity for the bromide determination of the composite electrode was compared with that of a bulk silver electrode and it was shown that the composite electrode is very efficient with a comparable electroactivity with only a portion of precious metals being used for its construction.     

High-Throughput Testing of Heterogeneous Catalyst Libraries Using Array Microreactors and Mass Spectrometry

Eighty isolated channels are present in the array microreactor system that was coupled to a quadrupole mass spectrometer for high-throughput testing of heterogeneous catalyst libraries. The system was used to monitor the activities, selectivities, and reaction kinetics of 66 ternary Pt/Pd/In catalysts for the dehydrogenation of cyclohexane to benzene over 24 h. It was possible to screen the entire 80-channel library in less than 10 minutes (see picture).     

A Method for High-Throughput Screening of Enantioselective Catalysts

About 1000 catalytic or stoichiometric asymmetric reactions of racemic compounds or prochiral substrates bearing enantiotopic groups can be analyzed per day. In this highly efficient method the enantioselectivity is determined by electrospray ionization mass spectrometry using isotopically labeled substrates. The picture shows the mass spectrum of the mixture obtained upon hydrolysis of 1 to afford the pseudo-enantiomeric products 2 and 3 .