Preparation of PVA-based composite alkaline solid polymer electrolyte with La2O3 nanoparticle filler

Journal of Nanoparticle Research - The electronic sensitivity and reactivity of polyamidoamine (PAMAM) and polyester dendrimers toward favipiravir (T705) were inspected using density functional...     

An ultra-sensitive electrochemical sensor for ascorbic acid based on click chemistry

A highly selective and sensitive electrochemical sensor for ascorbic acid (AA) assay has been prepared through Cu(I) catalyzed azide-alkyne cycloaddition reaction (CuAAC). The catalyst, Cu(I) species, is acquired from the reduction of Cu(II) by AA in situ. In the presence of Cu(I) catalyst, the azide modified Au electrode surface is shown to react quantitatively with terminal propargyl-functionalized ferrocene forming 1,2,3-triazoles. The electrochemical response of propargyl-functionalized ferrocene modified Au electrode surface can be monitored using differential pulse voltammetry (DPV) technique. Under optimal conditions, it is found that the current intensity has a linear relationship with the logarithm of AA concentration in the range of 5.0 × 10(-12) to 1.0 × 10(-9) M. Furthermore, the proposed electrochemical sensor shows a good stability (RSD 4.2%), high selectivity and low detection limit for AA detection. In addition, it also demonstrates that the proposed sensor can be applied to detect AA in real urine samples with satisfactory results.     

Iron(III) Chloride Catalyzed Oxidative Coupling Reaction of 1,2‐Diarylethylene Derivatives

A nontoxic FeCl₃ catalyzed intramolecular oxidative coupling reaction was developed for mild synthesis of a series of phenanthrenes with different substituents. The method involves cross dehydrogenative coupling of a variety of 1,2‐diarylethylene derivatives with di‐tert‐butylperoxide (DTBP) as a sole oxidant at room temperature in CH₂Cl₂/TFA (9:1 V/V) to yield phenanthrenes in good to excellent yields.     

Room-Temperature Spin Transport in Metal Nanocluster-Based Spin Valves

As a new type of inorganic-organic hybrid semiconductor, quantum-confined atomically precise metal nanoclusters (MNCs) have been widely applied in the fields of chemical sensing, optical imaging, biomedicine and catalysis. Herein, we successfully design and fabricate the first example of MNC-based spin valves (SVs) that exhibit remarkable magnetoresistance (MR) value up to 1.6 % even at room temperature (300 K). The concomitant photoresponse of MNC-based SVs unambiguously confirms that the spin-polarized electron transmission takes place across the MNC interlayer. Furthermore, the spin-dependent transport property of MNC-based SVs is largely varied by changing the atomic structure of MNCs. Both experimental proofs and quantum chemistry calculations reveal that the atomic structure-discriminative spin transport behavior is attributed to the distinct spin-orbit coupling (SOC) effect of MNCs.     

Light-Induced Self-Escape of Spherical Nucleic Acid from Endo/Lysosome for Efficient Non-Cationic Gene Delivery

Developing non-cationic gene carriers and achieving efficient endo/lysosome escape of functional nucleic acids in cytosol are two major challenges faced by the field of gene delivery. Herein, we demonstrate the concept of self-escape spherical nucleic acid (SNA) to achieve light controlled non-cationic gene delivery with sufficient endo/lysosome escape capacity. In this system, Bcl-2 antisense oligonucleotides (OSAs) were conjugated onto the surface of aggregation-induced emission (AIE) photosensitizer (PS) nanoparticles to form core–shell SNA. Once the SNAs were taken up by tumor cells, and upon light irradiation, the accumulative ¹O₂ produced by the AIE PSs ruptured the lysosome structure to promote OSA escape. Prominent in vitro and in vivo results revealed that the AIE-based core–shell SNA could downregulate the anti-apoptosis protein (Bcl-2) and induce tumor cell apoptosis without any transfection reagent.     

新型龙胆酸衍生物的合成及其抑制酪氨酸酶活性研究

为发现新型的美白活性化合物,以龙胆酸甲酯、卤代烃和α-羟基酸乙酯为原料,合成了10个未见文献报道的2-羟基-5-烷(H)氧基苯甲酸酯类衍生物(3a,3b和6a～6h),其结构经1H NMR,IR,MS和HRMS确认.初步生物活性测试结果表明6a,6b,6e和6f具有较强的抑制酪氨酸酶活性,进一步药理实验表明经取代改造后的6a～6h,其毒性和光学毒性都相对龙胆酸甲酯和氢醌更低.     

Max-min weight balanced connected partition

For a connected graph $G=(V,E)$ and a positive integral vertex weight function $w$ , a max-min weight balanced connected $k$ -partition of $G$ , denoted as $BCP_k$ , is a partition of $V$ into $k$ disjoint vertex subsets $(V_1,V_2,\ldots ,V_k)$ such that each $G[V_i]$ (the subgraph of $G$ induced by $V_i$ ) is connected, and $\min _{1\le i\le k}\{w(V_i)\}$ is maximum. Such a problem has a lot of applications in image processing and clustering, and was proved to be NP-hard. In this paper, we study $BCP_k$ on a special class of graphs: trapezoid graphs whose maximum degree is bounded by a constant. A pseudo-polynomial time algorithm is given, based on which an FPTAS is obtained for $k=2,3,4$ . A step-stone for the analysis of the FPTAS depends on a lower bound for the optimal value of $BCP_k$ in terms of the total weight of the graph. In providing such a lower bound, a byproduct of this paper is that any 4-connected trapezoid graph on at least seven vertices has a 4-contractible edge, which may have a value in its own right.     

N1-甲基鸟嘌呤阳离子脱质子动力学的研究

在所有DNA碱基中, 鸟嘌呤碱基G具有最低的氧化电位, 导致其最容易被氧化. G碱基被单电子氧化成为G正离子自由基(G^+·), G^+·存在两个脱质子位点, 其中脱嘧啶环上亚氨基质子N¹-H比脱环外氨基质子N²-H更有利, 因而在普通G碱基中研究脱N²-H的过程无法排除脱N¹-H过程的干扰, 使得其脱N²-H的动力学迄今尚不明确. 在本文中, 通过将G碱基上的N¹-H用CH₃取代(即mG), 采用纳秒时间分辨瞬态紫外可见吸收光谱方法研究了mG碱基单电子氧化后脱质子N²-H的动力学. 根据瞬态紫外可见吸收光谱, 确定了mG^+·脱质子的产物是mG(N²-H)^·, 即脱质子的位点是N²-H. 进一步通过测量mG(N²-H)^·的生成速率常数与mG的浓度依赖关系, 得到室温下SO₄^-·单电子氧化mG生成 mG^+·的速率常数为(3.7±0.1)×10⁹ L·mol^-1·s^-1以及 mG^+·脱N²-H的速率常数为(7.1±0.2)×10⁶ s^-1. 并通过检测不同温度下mG^+·脱N²-H的速率常数, 利用阿仑尼乌斯方程得出脱质子N²-H的活化能为19.9±1.0 kJ·mol^-1. 这些结果可为DNA碱基的氧化损伤过程提供更为丰富的动力学信息.     

Multi-axial strain-stiffening elastic potentials with energy bounds: explicit approach based on uniaxial data

According to the well-known models for rubberlike elasticity with strainstiffening effects, the unbounded strain energy is generated with the unlimitedly growing stress when the stretch approaches certain limits. Toward a solution to this issue, an explicit approach is proposed to derive the multi-axial elastic potentials directly from the uniaxial potentials. Then, a new multi-axial potential is presented to characterize the strain-stiffening effect by prescribing suitable forms of uniaxial potentials so that the strain energy is always bounded as the stress grows to infinity. Numerical examples show good agreement with a number of test data.     

处理方法对多壁碳纳米管结构及负载Ru催化剂氨分解反应活性的影响

分别用H2O2、强碱（NaOH、KOH）和HNO3处理CNTs。以处理后的CNTs为载体、通过浸渍RuCl3水溶液结合高温H2还原制备Ru/CNTs催化剂,并将其应用在氨分解催化反应中。利用XRD、TPR、TPD-MS表征手段研究了Ru在CNTs表面的分散、还原性能及CNTs表面化学基团,探究催化剂结构-性能间构效关系。结果表明,强碱及双氧水处理CNTs,为其表面引入了数量适宜的羧基、酸酐、酚等官能团,而传统硝酸处理则引入了大量的羧基、酸酐、酯、内酯、酚、醌和羰基等官能团,对CNTs本征结构性质影响很大。经强碱及双氧水处理CNTs上负载Ru后所得催化剂的效果明显优于传统硝酸处理CNTs上负载Ru催化剂。本研究为CNTs的新型处理方法、表面化学官能团分析、提高Ru/CNTs催化分解氨活性提供了新的思路。