Advances in the scaffolds fabrication techniques using biocompatible polymers and their biomedical application: A technical and statistical review

With the advancement in tissue engineering, researchers are working hard on new techniques to fabricate more advanced scaffolds from biocompatible polymers with enhanced porosity, appropriate mechanical strength, diverse shapes and sizes for potential applications in biomedical field in general and tissue engineering in particular. These techniques include electrospinning, solution blow spinning, centrifugal spinning, particulate leaching (salt leaching), freeze-drying, lithography, self-assembly, phase separation, gas foaming, melt molding, 3-D printing, fiber mesh and solvent casting. In this article we have summarized the scaffold’s fabrication techniques from biocompatible polymers that are reported so far, the recent advances in these techniques, characterization of the physicochemical properties of scaffolds and their potential applications in the biomedical field and tissue engineering. The article will help both newcomers and experts working in the biomedical implant fabrication to not only find their desired information in one document but also understand the fabrication techniques and the parameters that control the success of biocompatible polymeric scaffolds. Furthermore, a static analysis of the work published in all forms on the most innovative techniques is also presented. The data is taken from Scopus, restricting the search to biomedical fields and tissue engineering.     

Designing a 0D/2D S‐Scheme Heterojunction over Polymeric Carbon Nitride for Visible‐Light Photocatalytic Inactivation of Bacteria

Constructing heterojunctions between two semiconductors with matched band structure is an effective strategy to acquire high‐efficiency photocatalysts. The S‐scheme heterojunction system has shown great potential in facilitating separation and transfer of photogenerated carriers, as well as acquiring strong photoredox ability. Herein, a 0D/2D S‐Scheme heterojunction material involving CeO₂ quantum dots and polymeric carbon nitride (CeO₂/PCN) is designed and constructed by in situ wet chemistry with subsequent heat treatment. This S‐scheme heterojunction material shows high‐efficiency photocatalytic sterilization rate (88.1 %) towards Staphylococcus aureus (S. aureus) under visible‐light irradiation (λ≥420 nm), which is 2.7 and 8.2 times that of pure CeO₂ (32.2 %) and PCN (10.7 %), respectively. Strong evidence of S‐scheme charge transfer path is verified by theoretical calculations, in situ irradiated X‐ray photoelectron spectroscopy, and electron paramagnetic resonance.     

Precisely Tuning Photothermal and Photodynamic Effects of Polymeric Nanoparticles by Controlled Copolymerization

Cancer possesses normoxic and hypoxia microenvironments with different levels of oxygen, needing different efficacies of photothermal and photodynamic therapies. It is important to precisely tune the photothermal and photodynamic effects of phototherapy nano‐agents for efficient cancer treatment. Now, a series of copolymeric nanoparticles (PPy‐Te NPs) were synthesized in situ by controlled oxidative copolymerization with different ratios of pyrrole to tellurophene by FeCl₃. The photothermal and photodynamic effects of semiconducting nano‐agents under the first near‐infrared (NIR) irradiation were precisely and systematically tuned upon simply varying the molar ratio of the pyrrole to tellurophene. The PPy‐Te NPs were used for cancer treatment in mice, exhibiting excellent biocompatibility and therapeutic effect. This work presents a simple method to tune photothermal and photodynamic therapies effect in semiconducting nano‐agents for cancer treatment.     

汽油吸附脱硫研究进展

吸附脱硫方法以其操作简单、投资少、适合于深度脱硫、无污染等优点得到了较快的发展。本文较详细地介绍了活性炭、分子筛、金属氧化物和黏土材料等汽油脱硫吸附剂的研究进展。     

含光学活性联二萘酚基团可溶性高分子手性配体的合成及其不对称加成反应

不对称催化是有机化学研究的前沿领域和发展方向．近10年来,手性配体的研究得到了长足的发展,大量的小分子手性配体被报道,其中许多手性配体展示了优异的催化性能．但是由于昂贵的手性配体（金属催化剂）分离、回收和再利用的问题,从而限制了小分子催化剂的应用．因此,解决手性金属催化剂的分离与回收问题是不对称催化研究领域的一个热点问题．为了解决这一关键问题,国内外科学家从负载的角度出发已经成功地发展了众多的研究方法,无机负载法、交联高分子负载法、可溶性高分子负载法、树状大分子负载法等．许多负载的手性金属催化剂已经表现出优异的催化活性和高的对映选择活性．     

胶原-单宁树脂的制备及其对水溶液中UO2+2的吸附特性研究

以天然牛皮为原料,经胃蛋白酶处理制得水解胶原;通过胶原-黑荆树单宁-醛反应制备了胶原-单宁树脂(C-TR)吸附材料,并表征了材料的形貌,测定了材料的比表面积、热变形温度等性质。系统研究了C-TR对水溶液中UO22 的吸附特性。结果表明,C-TR对UO22 有较强的吸附能力。当温度为303K、pH=5.0、UO22 的初始浓度2.5mmol.L-1时,吸附容量达到1.49mmolU/g。升高温度,平衡吸附量增大。pH对吸附容量的影响较大,适宜的pH范围为5.0-6.0。C-TR对UO22 的吸附平衡符合Freundlich方程。吸附动力学可用拟二级速度方程来描述。C-TR对UO22 的吸附基本不受NaCl影响,该吸附材料可望用于海水中铀的富集和分离。     

Synthesis and Absorption Properties of New Na Specific Adsorbent Li（1＋x）AlxTi（2-x）（PO4）3

A new kind of adsorbent Li（1＋x）AlxTi（2-x）（PO4）3 was synthesized by solid state reaction method. The influence of the content of doping aluminum on the adsorbent Li（1＋x）AlxTi（2-x）（PO4）3 was investigated by XRD, while the morphology of powders was observed by SEM. The investigation of the adsorption properties showed that the adsorbent can selectively adsorb sodium with the adsorption capacity of 11.76 mg/g. The optimum conditions of adsorption are at pH 10.0-11.0 in LiCl solution.     

单分散亲水两性离子交换树脂的制备及其在生物大分子分离中的应用

采用分散聚合与溶胀聚合相结合的方法及高分子溶液致孔技术, 成功地制备了粒径为5.0 μm大孔和超大孔结构的单分散亲水性交联聚甲基丙烯酸环氧丙酯树脂, 并进行了结构表征. 将该树脂经胺化后再与1,3-丙磺酸内酯反应, 得到一种新型的两性离子交换(强阳-强阴型)高效液相色谱填料. 研究了该填料对标准蛋白分离性能及流动相中有机溶剂、 流速和pH值对蛋白保留的影响. 实验结果表明, 在流速为3 mL/min时, 采用线性梯度洗脱, 在4.0 min内可同时快速基线分离3种酸性和2种碱性蛋白.     

High-performance liquid chromatography analysis of curcumin in rat plasma: application to pharmacokinetics of polymeric micellar formulation of curcumin

A simple, rapid and reliable high-performance liquid chromatographic (HPLC) method was developed and validated for the determination of curcumin in rat plasma. Plasma was precipitated with acetonitrile after addition of the internal standard (IS), 4-hydroxybenzophenone. Separation was achieved on a Waters muBondapak C(18) column (3.9 x 300 mm, 5 microm) using acetonitrile (55%) and citric buffer, pH 3.0 (45%) as the mobile phase (flow rate = 1.0 mL/min). The UV detection wavelength was 300 and 428 nm for IS and curcumin, respectively. The extraction efficiencies were 97.08, 95.69 and 94.90% for 50, 200 and 1000 ng/mL of curcumin in rat plasma, respectively. The calibration curve was linear over the range 0.02-1 microg/mL with a correlation coefficient of r(2) > 0.999. The intra- and inter-day coefficients of variation were less than 13%, and mean intra- and inter-day errors were less than +/-6% at 50, 200 and 1000 ng/mL of curcumin. This assay was successfully applied to the pharmacokinetic studies of both solubilized curcumin and its polymeric micellar formulation in rats. It was found that polymeric micelles increased the half-life of curcumin 162-fold that of solubilized curcumin and increased the volume of distribution (Vd(ss)) by 70-fold.