Polymers with tertiary amine groups for drug delivery and bioimaging

Over the past decade, biopolymers have gained great interests especially in biomedicine due to their physical properties and/or chemical structures changes in response to external stimuli in a certain time frame or at a specific location. Among them,poly(β-amino ester)s, methacrylate-based block copolymers and polypeptide with tertiary amine groups have been extensively studied and exhibit pH sensitive properties due to the protonation of tertiary amine groups. The pH values in normal organs,tissues, and subcellular compartments are always different from those in pathological tissues. These interesting properties allow their applications in a variety of fields ranging from diagnosis and therapeutics of diseases. Here, we review the recent progress of poly(β-amino ester)s, methacrylate-based block copolymers and polypeptide with tertiary amine groups and their applications in drug delivery and bioimaging.     

DNA tile based self-assembly: building complex nanoarchitectures.

DNA tile based self-assembly provides an attractive route to create nanoarchitectures of programmable patterns. It also offers excellent scaffolds for directed self-assembly of nanometer-scale materials, ranging from nanoparticles to proteins, with potential applications in constructing nanoelectronic/nanophotonic devices and protein/ligand nanoarrays. This Review first summarizes the currently available DNA tile toolboxes and further emphasizes recent developments toward self-assembling DNA nanostructures with increasing complexity. Exciting progress using DNA tiles for directed self-assembly of other nanometer scale components is also discussed.     

具有优异甲醇催化氧化性能的Pt/MoO3-WO3/CNTs催化剂

以聚二烯丙基二甲基胺盐酸盐(PDDA)为连接剂,采用原位自组装方式将MoO3和WO3负载到碳纳米管(CNTs)上,然后通过乙二醇还原法负载Pt纳米颗粒,得到Pt纳米颗粒均匀分布的Pt/MoO3-WO3/CNTs催化剂.当氧化物总量控制在10 wt%,MoO3与WO3摩尔比为1:0.5时,Pt/MoO3-WO3/CNTs催化剂催化甲醇氧化活性最高,甲醇氧化峰电流If高达835 A/gPt.WO3和MoO3的加入提高了催化剂的甲醇氧化活性、抗CO中毒能力和稳定性,使得Pt/MoO3-WO3/CNTs催化剂表现出优异的甲醇电催化氧化性能.     

聚阳离子糖缀物氢键诱导TPPS手性聚集

利用原子转移自由基聚合(ATRP)方法制备了亲水性嵌段聚合物聚乙二醇-b-聚甲基丙烯酸N,N-二甲氨基乙酯(PEG-b-PDMAEMA),并通过季铵化反应,得到侧链接枝不同单糖分子(葡萄糖、半乳糖、甘露糖)的聚阳离子糖缀物PEG-b-P(DMAEMA-co-DMAEMA-Sac)(Monosaccharide).研究了该聚合物与5,10,15,20-四(对磺酸基苯基)-卟啉(TPPS)在水溶液中的复合自组装行为.研究结果表明,TPPS在该组装体中以J-聚集体形式存在且显示超分子手性特征.手性信号的产生是聚合物侧链糖单元C(4)和C(5)上的羟基与TPPS通过非共价键——氢键相互作用的结果,因此手性信号方向应与糖单元构型有关.通过对比单糖构型发现,具有(4S,5R)构型的糖单元可诱导TPPS产生424 nm正Cotton效应和490 nm负Cotton效应的聚集体,具有(4R,5R)构型的糖单元可诱导TPPS产生424 nm负Cotton效应和490 nm正Cotton效应的聚集体.     

A novel synthesis route to furo[3,2-a]carbazole

In this paper,we report a novel approach to the heteroaryl-condensed nuclei of natural furo[3,2-a]carbazole alkaloids.Our synthetic studies use N-phthaloyl tryptophan methyl ester as starting material and zinc ion mediated transamination reaction as the key step.This work also implicated a novel strategy to assemble other [a]-fused carbazoles.     

瞄准精度对中子半影成像的影响

在Monte Carlo方法模拟中子半影成像的基础上,对视场内点的空间线性不变性进行了研究.在视场范围内,离轴点产生了与离轴距离成正比的展宽现象,但点的积分强度保持了很好一致性,证明系统满足线性不变性假设.利用这一结果,分析了瞄准精度对成像系统的影响.结果表明：靶心在物面上的径向偏差应控制在50μm之内;物距误差控制应在300μm以内;编码孔旋转弧度须小于0.1mrad. 关键词： 空间线性不变性 瞄准精度 展宽效应 图像畸变     

分形多孔介质的粒子扩散特点(Ⅱ)

本文进一步讨论了粒子在分形结构中的扩散,首先计算测定了各分形结构的谱维数,然后对其布朗运动特点进 行了分析讨论,最后模拟得到了粒子扩散概率分布,它们表现出很多有趣的特征:不均匀性,内含空洞和标度性等.这些 结果可以更好地了解气体在分形结构中的扩散。     

腺嘌呤及其β-环糊精包结物的光谱研究

通过紫外光谱的摩尔比法确定了腺嘌呤与β-环糊精（β－CD）包结物的包结比为1：1，通过紫外光谱和荧光光谱研究了腺嘌呤在酸性，中性，及碱性条件下的光谱变化及与β－CD包结物的光谱变化，分别求得了它们与β－CD包结的平衡常数。     

Influence of pretreatment conditions on low-temperature CO oxidation over Au/MOx/Al2O3 catalysts

Composite oxide MO_x/Al₂O₃ supported gold catalysts for low-temperature CO oxidation were prepared and investigated. The presence of transition metal oxide was proved to be beneficial to the improvement of catalytic performance of Au/Al₂O₃ catalysts for low-temperature CO oxidation. Furthermore, the influence of various pretreatment conditions on Au/MO_x/Al₂O₃ catalysts was studied carefully. The image of TEM showed that gold catalyst with small gold particles only in the form of a fine dispersion exhibited highly catalytic activity. The XPS, Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) spectroscopy characterization results of Au/FeO_x/Al₂O₃ catalyst showed that gold catalysts having partially oxidized gold species have the best catalytic performance. One possible pathway for CO oxidation on Au/FeO_x/Al₂O₃ catalyst is that the CO adsorbed on gold particles reacts with adsorbed oxygen, which is possible to occur on oxygen vacancies on the support or at the metal–support interface.     

CO/light dual-activatable Ru(ii)-conjugated oligomer agent for lysosome-targeted multimodal cancer therapeutics

Stimuli-activatable and subcellular organelle-targeted agents with multimodal therapeutics are urgently desired for highly precise and effective cancer treatment. Herein, a CO/light dual-activatable Ru(ii)-oligo-(thiophene ethynylene) (Ru-OTE) for lysosome-targeted cancer therapy is reported. Ru-OTE is prepared via the coordination-driven self-assembly of a cationic conjugated oligomer (OTE-BN) ligand and a Ru(ii) center. Upon the dual-triggering of internal gaseous signaling molecular CO and external light, Ru-OTE undergoes ligand substitution and releases OTE-BN followed by dramatic fluorescence recovery, which could be used for monitoring drug delivery and imaging guided anticancer treatments. The released OTE-BN selectively accumulates in lysosomes, physically breaking their integrity. Then, the generated cytotoxic singlet oxygen (¹O₂) causes severe lysosome damage, thus leading to cancer cell death via photodynamic therapy (PDT). Meanwhile, the release of the Ru(ii) core also suppresses cancer cell growth as an anticancer metal drug. Its significant anticancer effect is realized via the multimodal therapeutics of physical disruption/PDT/chemotherapy. Importantly, Ru-OTE can be directly photo-activated using a two-photon laser (800 nm) for efficient drug release and near-infrared PDT. Furthermore, Ru-OTE with light irradiation inhibits tumor growth in an MDA-MB-231 breast tumor model with negligible side effects. This study demonstrates that the development of an activatable Ru(ii)-conjugated oligomer potential drug provides a new strategy for effective subcellular organelle-targeted multimodal cancer therapeutics.

The anticancer therapeutics of lysosome disruption/PDT/chemotherapy based on Ru-OTE complex was achieved, which provides a new strategy for developing multimodal and effective stimuli-activatable subcellular organelle-targeted cancer therapeutics.