The role of binder mobility in spontaneous adhesive contact and implications for cell adhesion

The standard view of mechanical adhesive contact is as a competition between a reduction in free energy when surfaces with bonding potential come into contact and an increase in free energy due to elastic deformation that is required to make these surfaces conform. An equilibrium state is defined by an incremental balance between these effects, akin to the Griffith crack growth criterion. In the case of adhesion of biological cells, the molecules that tend to form surface-to-surface bonds are confined to the cell wall but they are mobile within the wall, adding a new phenomenon of direct relevance to adhesive contact. In this article, the process of adhesive contact of an initially curved elastic plate to a flat surface is studied for the case in which the binders that account for adhesion are able to migrate within the plate. This is done by including entropic free energy of the binder distribution in the total free energy of the system. By adopting a constitutive assumption that binders migrate at a speed proportional to the local gradient in chemical potential, the transient growth of an adhesion zone due to binder transport is analyzed. For the case of a plate of very large extent, the problem can be solved in closed form, whereas numerical methods are invoked for the case of a plate of limited extent. Results are presented on the rate of growth of an adhesion zone in terms of system parameters, on the evolution of the distribution of binders and, in the case of a plate of limited extent, on the long-term limiting size of the adhesion zone.     

化学位移各向导性对半整数自旋四极核的2D NMR章动的影响

考察了化学位移各向异性对半整数自旋四极核2D NMR章动的影响.用数值方法对2D NMR章动实验的演化期的Hamiltonian矩阵进行对角化,然后用帐篷法进行粉末平均,获得了自旋为I=3/2、5/2、7/2和9/2的四极核在不同化学位移各向异性下的2D NMR章动谱.实验结果与理论计算符合较好.     

Chiral soluble polymers and microspheres for enantioselective crystallization

A series of chiral polymers based on poly(N‐acryl) amino acids was synthesized using a convergent synthetic approach. These chiral polymers have been used as chiral additives to induce enantioselective crystallization of racemic or conglomerate amino acids in solutions. These polymeric additives showed strong capabilities to enhance highly enantioselective resolution during the crystallization of amino acids. In addition, these polymers caused unusual modifications of amino acid crystal morphologies. Furthermore, spherical microparticles of those same chiral polymers were also shown active in similar chiral discriminations during amino acid crystallizations occurring on microparticle surfaces. Our study demonstrates the high potential of chiral polymers and microparticles to resolve amino acids throughout crystallization processes. High enantiomeric excesses in one targeted enantiomer of amino acids can also be maximized via time‐dependent kinetic control of crystallizations. © 2006 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Polym Sci Part A: Polym Chem 44: 3009–3017, 2006     

Structural characterisation of Sb-based heterostructures by X-ray scattering methods

Antimonide-based superlattices dedicated to the elaboration of opto-electronic devices have been studied by X-ray scattering techniques. In particular, specular and non-specular X-ray reflectometry experiments have been performed on two MBE-samples elaborated with different shutter sequences at the interfaces. The results have shown a limitation of the incorporation of Sb species in the subsequent InAs layer for one of the samples, as expected.Then, a study on a InGaAs-cap layer/(InGaAs/AlAsSb)_N superlattice grown on a InGaAs/InP buffer layer by both specular X-ray reflectometry and High resolution X-ray diffraction is reported. In particular, the results have revealed the presence of a highly disturbed thin-layer on top of the MOVPE-made GaInAs, whose presence has been explained by In-concentration modification during the desoxidation procedure at the surface of the MOVPE-made GaInAs.Beside the results on the Sb-based heterostructures, the use of X-ray scattering metrology as a routinely working non-destructive testing method has been emphasized.     

对称双吡咯甲烷的合成与分子内氢键的研究

５－甲基吡咯－２－羧酸酯在磺酰氢，溴或四乙酸铅作用下，生成相应的在５－甲基上含取代基的产物，后者不经分离不便可自缩合得标题化合物，核磁共振氢谱研究和分子构象木匠，当３，３位的取代基为甲酸（酯）基或乙酸（酯）基时，可形成３，３位酯基与另一吡咯环上的氮氢之间的分子内氢键，而３，３位是其它取代基，如乙酰基，丙酸（酯）基，丁酸（酯）基时不能形成类似的分子内氢键。     

基团共轭效应研究Ⅱ：^13C核磁共振的化学位移与取代基的共轭效应强度

引言在定量和定性研究有机化合物的结构与性质的关系中,最广泛使用的是Hammett等所提出的σ_m、σ_p等取代基常数以及基团的诱导(场)效应和共轭效应常数。在建立基团的共轭效应常数方面,人们做了大量的工作,但多数工作是基于对基团的Hammett常数σ的人为分解上,建立的模型和分解方式(系数因子)不同,则得到不同的结果。另一方面纯理论计算工作大多引入较多参数,使计算复杂和使用不便。作者曾在建立表征诱导效应大小的     

苯部分加氢制环己烯的非晶态Ru-M-B/ZrO2催化剂的表征

采用化学还原法，制备了高活性，高选择性非晶态RU-M-B/ZRO2催化剂，并将其用于催化苯部分加氢制环己烯，在140℃、5.0Mpa氢压下，苯转化40%时，环己烯选择性达到85%左右。环己烯最高收率达到52.1%，用XRD、SEM、BET比表面积测定等手段对摧化剂进行表征，XRD和SEM测试表明，RU-U-B/ZRO2属于非晶态，活性组分高度分散，XRD结果证实，在加氢过程中，非晶分解，RU晶化；温度愈高，RU晶化愈快，催化剂的活性、选择性与RU微晶的粒径有关，RU微晶粒径应控制在5nm左右，BET比表面积测定表明，ZRO2的负载提高了催化剂的比表面积，从而有利于活性组分的高度分散，并可阻止RU微晶的长大，讨论了B和ZRO2对提高选择性的作用。     

Nanoscale organization of the pathogen receptor DC-SIGN mapped by single-molecule high-resolution fluorescence microscopy.

DC-SIGN, a C-type lectin exclusively expressed on dendritic cells (DCs), plays an important role in pathogen recognition by binding with high affinity to a large variety of microorganisms. Recent experimental evidence points to a direct relation between the function of DC-SIGN as a viral receptor and its spatial arrangement on the plasma membrane. We have investigated the nanoscale organization of fluorescently labeled DC-SIGN on intact isolated DCs by means of near-field scanning optical microscopy (NSOM) combined with single-molecule detection. Fluorescence spots of different intensity and size have been directly visualized by optical means with a spatial resolution of less than 100 nm. Intensity- and size-distribution histograms of the DC-SIGN fluorescent spots confirm that approximately 80 % of the receptors are organized in nanosized domains randomly distributed on the cell membrane. Intensity-size correlation analysis revealed remarkable heterogeneity in the molecular packing density of the domains. Furthermore, we have mapped the intermolecular organization within a dense cluster by means of sequential NSOM imaging combined with discrete single-molecule photobleaching. In this way we have determined the spatial coordinates of 13 different individual dyes, with a localization accuracy of 6 nm. Our experimental observations are all consistent with an arrangement of DC-SIGN designed to maximize its chances of binding to a wide range of microorganisms. Our data also illustrate the potential of NSOM as an ultrasensitive, high-resolution technique to probe nanometer-scale organization of molecules on the cell membrane.     

用铜（Ⅱ）—L—精氨酸配体交换薄层色谱拆分氨基酸对映体

报道了一种新的配体交换薄层色谱拆分氨基酸对映体的方法。以醋酸铜－Ｌ－精氨酸的络合物为配体交换剂，用浸渍的方法吸附在硅胶薄层板上，制成配体交换薄层，用ＰＲＩＳＭＡ优化法选择出展开剂的最佳组成为：甲醇／乙腈／四氢呋喃／水＝８０：８．２：５．８：６，在此色谱条件下，十对氨基酸对映体得到良好的分离，Ｄ－和Ｌ－氨基酸的相对比移值在１．０９－２．４０之间。文中对配体交换薄层的制备方法，样品的分子结构及色谱行为