Natural Polyphenols for the Preservation of Meat and Dairy Products

Food spoilage makes foods undesirable and unacceptable for human use. The preservation of food is essential for human survival, and different techniques were initially used to limit the growth of spoiling microbes, e.g., drying, heating, salting, or fermentation. Water activity, temperature, redox potential, preservatives, and competitive microorganisms are the most important approaches used in the preservation of food products. Preservative agents are generally classified into antimicrobial, antioxidant, and anti-browning agents. On the other hand, artificial preservatives (sorbate, sulfite, or nitrite) may cause serious health hazards such as hypersensitivity, asthma, neurological damage, hyperactivity, and cancer. Thus, consumers prefer natural food preservatives to synthetic ones, as they are considered safer. Polyphenols have potential uses as biopreservatives in the food industry, because their antimicrobial and antioxidant activities can increase the storage life of food products. The antioxidant capacity of polyphenols is mainly due to the inhibition of free radical formation. Moreover, the antimicrobial activity of plants and herbs is mainly attributed to the presence of phenolic compounds. Thus, incorporation of botanical extracts rich in polyphenols in perishable foods can be considered since no pure polyphenolic compounds are authorized as food preservatives. However, individual polyphenols can be screened in this regard. In conclusion, this review highlights the use of phenolic compounds or botanical extracts rich in polyphenols as preservative agents with special reference to meat and dairy products.     

用光波导光模光谱技术研究DNA-DNA结合蛋白相互作用

探讨了应用光波导光模光谱(Optical waveguide lightmode spectroscopy,OWLS)技术研究DNA-DNA结合蛋白相互作用的可行性和灵敏性。以固定在传感器芯片表面的DNA探针为捕捉分子,溶液中同时含有探针结合序列和NF—κB结合位点序列的寡核苷酸与NF-κB亚单位p50同源二聚体形成的DNA-蛋白质复合物为检测分子,用光波导光模光谱检测技术建立非标记DNA-DNA结合蛋白相互作用检测研究体系。利用这一体系对不同样品中NF-κB p50浓度和具不同NF-κB结合位点序列的寡核苷酸与NF-κB p50亲合和力进行检测。样品中低至0．33 nmol/1的NF-κB p50被光波导光模光谱检测出,不同的NF-κB结合序列与NF-κB p50亲合力有显著的差异。研究发现,光波导光模光谱技术可以用于DNA-DNA结合蛋白相互作用研究,所建立的非标记检测研究体系可以进行样品中结合蛋白含量高灵敏检测和核酸序列与结合蛋白的亲合力的检测研究。     

Facial Synthesis and Bioevaluation of Well-Defined OEGylated Betulinic Acid-Cyclodextrin Conjugates for Inhibition of Influenza Infection

Betulinic acid (BA) and its derivatives exhibit a variety of biological activities, especially their anti-HIV-1 activity, but generally have only modest inhibitory potency against influenza virus. The entry of influenza virus into host cells can be competitively inhibited by multivalent derivatives targeting hemagglutinin. In this study, a series of hexa-, hepta- and octavalent BA derivatives based on α-, β- and γ-cyclodextrin scaffolds, respectively, with varying lengths of flexible oligo(ethylene glycol) linkers was designed and synthesized using a microwave-assisted copper-catalyzed 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition reaction. The generated BA-cyclodextrin conjugates were tested for their in vitro activity against influenza A/WSN/33 (H1N1) virus and cytotoxicity. Among the tested compounds, 58, 80 and 82 showed slight cytotoxicity to Madin-Darby canine kidney cells with viabilities ranging from 64 to 68% at a high concentration of 100 μM. Four conjugates 51 and 69–71 showed significant inhibitory effects on influenza infection with half maximal inhibitory concentration values of 5.20, 9.82, 7.48 and 7.59 μM, respectively. The structure-activity relationships of multivalent BA-cyclodextrin conjugates were discussed, highlighting that multivalent BA derivatives may be potential antiviral agents against influenza infection.     

含氧酸及其盐氧化还原中几个问题的探讨

对北京师范大学等3校无机化学教研室编写的《无机化学》(第4版)中阐述的关于含氧酸及其盐氧化性的观点进行讨论。指出含氧酸中R—O键的键能、还原产物的稳定性、伴随氧化还原反应的其他能量效应和反应的熵变是影响含氧酸氧化性的4种因素;对中心原子获得电子的能力作为含氧酸氧化性的主要影响因素和用反极化作用解释含氧酸氧化性的观点提出了质疑;基于氧化还原过程的能量变化和浓度对电极电势值的影响,对低氧化态含氧酸氧化性较强、浓酸的氧化性比稀酸强和含氧酸的氧化性比含氧酸盐强的问题作出了合理的分析。     

表面粗糙度对玻璃钢材料放气速率影响的试验研究

设计了一套基于压差流量法的试验装置来测量不同表面粗糙度玻璃钢试样的放气速率;采用两种砂纸(100#和500#)打磨而得到两种不同表面粗糙度玻璃钢试样;采用扫描探针显微镜对试样表面粗糙度进行测量,测量了不同表面粗糙度试样在不同温度下的放气速率。试验结果表明:测量室温度越高,玻璃钢试样的放气速率越大;试样的表面粗糙度越大,其放气速率越大。     

Graphene-nickel nitride hybrids supporting palladium nanoparticles for enhanced ethanol electrooxidation

Electrocatalysts for ethanol oxidation reaction(EOR)are generally limited by their poor durability because of the catalyst poisoning induced by the reaction intermediate carbon monoxide(CO).Therefore,the rapid oxidation removal of CO intermediates is crucial to the durability of EOR-based catalysts.Herein,in order to effectively avoiding the catalyst CO poisoning and improve the durability,the graphene-nickel nitride hybrids(AG-Ni₃N)were designed for supporting palladium nanoparticles(Pd/AG-Ni₃N)and then used for ethanol electrooxidation.The density functional theory(DFT)calculations demonstrated the introduction of AG-Ni₃N depresses the CO absorption and simultaneously promotes the adsorption of OH species for CO oxidation removal.The fabricated Pd/AG-Ni₃N catalyst distinctively exhibits excellent electroactivity with the mass catalytic activity of 3499.5 m A mg^-1 on EOR in alkaline media,which is around 5.24 times higher than Pd/C(commercial catalyst).Notably,the Pd/AG-Ni₃N hybrids display excellent stability and durability after chronoamperometric measurements with a total operation time of 150,000 s.     

转移矩阵法在负折射率介质材料平板波导中的应用研究

利用严格电磁理论,推导出了适用于负折射率介质材料光波导的转移矩阵,分析讨论了转移矩阵的性质和应用.利用转移矩阵方法,推导出导波层为负折射率介质材料、覆盖层和衬底为右手材料的三层对称介质光波导的本征色散方程.用图解法研究了负折射率介质波导中TE波的异常色散特性.在负折射材料介质波导中没有零阶模,最低阶为1阶模,并且有截止频率,只有波导参量满足一定条件的时候才会存在,导模的横向波数可以为实数和纯虚数,而正折射率介质波导导模的横向波数只能为实数.