壳聚糖混合膜酶降解的FTIR分析

生物可降解性是壳聚糖的重要性质之一,但利用傅里叶变换红外光谱(FTIR)研究降解过程中壳聚糖的变化则较少。文章制备了由高脱乙酰度壳聚糖(HDC)和中脱乙酰度壳聚糖(MDC)组成的混合膜。运用FTIR分析了壳聚糖混合膜组分变化对其红外谱图和脱乙酰度(DD)的影响,并研究了该混合膜在溶菌酶的降解作用下红外谱图和脱乙酰度的变化。发现壳聚糖混合膜材料的脱乙酰度与膜中MDC组分的比例呈线性关系;随降解的进行,混合膜的脱乙酰度增加。结果证实了溶菌酶对较低脱乙酰度壳聚糖的选择性降解作用,而且表明FTIR可用于分析壳聚糖混合膜降解过程中的化学变化。     

磁力负刚度薄膜结构低频吸声特性

针对背腔深度较小的薄膜吸声结构难以实现低频吸声的问题,提出了磁力负刚度的解决方法。采用传递矩阵法,建立了负刚度薄膜吸声结构理论模型,分析得出该结构的声阻抗等同与大背腔常规薄膜吸声结构的声阻抗;阻抗管实验验证得出,在一定磁场条件下,不同背腔的负刚度薄膜吸声结构与无负刚度结构相比其共振频率显著下降,吸声系数曲线与理论结构吻合。负刚度机制能够降低薄膜吸声结构的共振频率,用较小背腔实现低频吸声,从而实现薄型低频吸声结构设计。     

Effects of low-intensity ultrasound on the growth,cell membrane permeability and ethanol tolerance of Saccharomyces cerevisiae

Effects of low-intensity ultrasound (at different frequency, treatment time and power) on Saccharomyces cerevisiae in different growth phase were evaluated by the biomass in the paper. In addition, the cell membrane permeability and ethanol tolerance of sonicated Saccharomyces cerevisiae were also researched. The results revealed that the biomass of Saccharomyces cerevisiae increased by 127.03% under the optimum ultrasonic conditions such as frequency 28 kHz, power 140 W/L and ultrasonic time 1 h when Saccharomyces cerevisiae cultured to the latent anaphase. And the membrane permeability of Saccharomyces cerevisiae in latent anaphase enhanced by ultrasound, resulting in the augment of extracellular protein, nucleic acid and fructose-1,6-diphosphate (FDP) contents. In addition, sonication could accelerate the damage of high concentration alcohol to Saccharomyces cerevisiae although the ethanol tolerance of Saccharomyces cerevisiae was not affected significantly by ultrasound.     

A branch-and-bound algorithm to minimize the line length of a two-sided assembly line

A new branch-and-bound algorithm is presented to solve the two-sided assembly line balancing problem of type 1 (TALB-1). First, a pair of two directly facing station is defined as a position, and then the two-sided assembly line (TAL) is relaxed to a one-sided assembly line (OAL). Some new lower bound on positions are computed, and dominance rules and reduction rules for the one-sided assembly line balancing problem of type 1 (OALB-1) are extended and incorporated into a station-oriented assignment procedure for the TALB-1 problem. Finally, the tests are carried out on a well-known benchmark set of problem instances, and experimental results demonstrate that the proposed procedure is efficient.     

陶瓷微滤膜在液相领域的分离机理和控制分析

介绍了陶瓷微滤膜的过滤机理,分析了膜污染的现状及其影响陶瓷微滤膜膜通量的因素,总结了陶瓷微滤膜的应用前景和亟待解决的问题.     

Membrane fluidity altering and enzyme inactivating in sarcoma 180 cells post the exposure to sonoactivated hematoporphyrin in vitro

Sonodynamic therapy (SDT) is a novel tumor therapy method. We investigated membrane fluidity, activity of the enzymes and membrane morphology in vitro post hematoporphyrin-SDT treatment. Furthermore, the potential mechanisms behind the changes in membrane fluidity and enzymic activity were discussed. Tumor cells were exposed to ultrasound at 1.75 MHz for up to 3 min in the presence and absence of hematoporphyrin. Fluorescence polarization, contents of Malonaldehyde, and levels of free fatty acid were assessed. Activity of enzymes was checked by the plumbic nitrate detection method. For the morphologic study, a scanning electron microscope was used to observe the cellular surface. Ultrasonically induced cell damage increased in the presence of HPD (from 15% to 24%). Compared with ultrasound treatment alone, the fluidity decreased from 5.037 to 3.908, malonaldehyde content and free fatty acid level increased from 0.743 nmol/mL to 0.979 nmol/mL and from 237.180 μmol/L to 730.769 μmol/L, respectively, post ultrasound combined with HPD treatment. Inactivity of adenylate cyclase and guanylate cyclase and significant deformation of the cellular surface were also observed post SDT treatment. Our results suggested that alterations in membrane modality and lipid composition played important roles in SDT-mediated inhibition of tumor growth, even inducing tumor cell death, which might be attributed to a sono-chemical activation mechanism.     

Electrolyte interaction with DPPC vesicles: An ESR study

Summary The partition of the spin probe TEMPO between the fluid lipid phase of single-walled vesicles of dipalmitoylphosphatidylcholine and the aqueous bulk solution have been used to investigate the interaction of monovalent ions with polar head of neutral phospholipids. The study has been performed by electron spin resonance (ESR) spectroscopy in the temperature range of (20÷60)°C and in the presence of (0÷3) M 1∶1 electrolyte. In the absence of electrolyte the spin probe TEMPO reveals the characteristic order→disorder DPPC main phase transition atT _m≈37°C, while the pretransition occurs atT _p≈27.5°C. On increasing the ionic strength of the dispersion medium it results for the partition coefficient,P _C, that, at each temperature,P _C(3)>P _C(2)>P _C(1)>P _C(0). Correspondingly, the pretransition disappears and theT _m value downshifts from ≈37°C with 0 M electrolyte to ≈34°C with 3M salt in the order:T _m(3)>T _m(2)>T _m(1)>T _m(0). The results suggest an increase in the net surface charge density of vesicles due to high ionic-strength values. The alteration of the electric interactions occurring into the polar zone of DPPC bilayer reduces the hindrances which, in turn, favour the enhancement of TEMPO partitioning in the hydrophobic core of phospholipid bilayers. The authors of this paper have agreed to not receive the proofs for correction.     

A descent principle for the Dirac-dual-Dirac method

Let G be a torsion-free discrete group with a finite-dimensional classifying space BG. We show that G has a dual-Dirac morphism if and only if a certain coarse (co-)assembly map is an isomorphism. Hence the existence of a dual-Dirac morphism for such groups is a metric, that is, coarse, invariant. We get results for groups with torsion as well.     

Modeling of mixed liquor inorganic suspended solids and membrane flux at different ratio of SRT to HRT in a submerged membrane bioreactor

In order to investigate the influence of mixed liquor inorganic suspended solids (MLISS) on membrane flux at different ratio of sludge retention time (SRT) to hydraulic retention time (HRT) in a submerged membrane bioreactor (SMBR), a pilot scale test was conducted for 452 days using traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) wastewater as influent. SRT/HRT was controlled at 150, 480 and 750, respectively. The experimental results showed that the average values of MLISS were 1271.9, 1664.5 and 6898.8 mg/L at different SRT/HRT, respectively; MLISS were accumulated from 265.5 g/h to 4912.93 g/h, which indicated that SMBR could not steadily operate for a long period without sludge withdrawal. Sludge oxygen utilized rate (SOUR) decreased from 5.115 to 1.292 mgO₂/(gVSS h) and volume oxygen utilized rate (VOUR) increased from 10.84 to 18.13 mgO₂/(L h). Model of membrane flux and MLISS were developed under different temperature and operational pressure by regressions, which were then satisfactorily employed to predict the trend of membrane flux during the experiment.     

A review on pharmaceuticals removal from waters by single and combined biological,membrane filtration and ultrasound systems

Contaminants of emerging concern (CEC) such as pharmaceuticals commonly found in urban and industrial wastewater are a potential threat to human health and have negative environmental impact. Most wastewater treatment plants cannot efficiently remove these compounds and therefore, many pharmaceuticals end up in aquatic ecosystems, inducing problems such as toxicity and antibiotic-resistance. This review reports the extent of pharmaceutical removal by individual processes such as bioreactors, advanced oxidation processes and membrane filtration systems, all of which are not 100% efficient and can lead to the direct discharge of pharmaceuticals into water bodies. Also, the importance of understanding biotransformation of pharmaceutical compounds during biological and ultrasound treatment, and its impact on treatment efficacy will be reviewed. Different combinations of the processes above, either as an integrated configuration or in series, will be discussed in terms of their degradation efficiency and scale-up capabilities. The trace quantities of pharmaceutical compounds in wastewater and scale-up issues of ultrasound highlight the importance of membrane filtration as a concentration and volume reduction treatment step for wastewater, which could subsequently be treated by ultrasound.