The Antibacterial Activity of Egyptian Wasp Chitosan-Based Nanoparticles against Important Antibiotic-Resistant Pathogens

The current work discusses the production and characterization of new biodegradable nanoparticles for biomedical applications based on insect chitosan. Chitosan has numerous features due to the presence of primary amine groups in repeating units, such as antibacterial and anticancer activities. When polyanion tripolyphosphate is added to chitosan, it creates nanoparticles with higher antibacterial activity than the original chitosan. In this study, the ionic gelation technique was used to make wasp chitosan nanoparticles (WCSNPs) in which TEM and FTIR were used to investigate the physicochemical properties of the nanoparticles. In addition, the antibacterial activities of chitosan nanoparticles against extended-spectrum beta-lactamase (ESBL)- and carbapenemase-producing Klebsiella pneumoniae, Escherichia coli, and Pseudomonas aeruginosa were evaluated. The extracted wasp chitosan exhibited high solubility in acetic acid and met all standard criteria of all characterization testes for nanoparticles; the zeta potential indicated stable WCSNPs capable of binding to cellular membrane and increasing the cellular uptake. The produced WCSNPs showed growth inhibition activity against all tested strains, and the bacterial count was lower than the initial count. The inhibition percent of WCSNPs showed that the lowest concentration of WCSNPs was found to be effective against tested strains. WCSNPs’ antibacterial activity implies that they could be used as novel, highly effective antibacterial agents in a variety of biological applications requiring antibacterial characteristics.     

Approximating weak Chebyshev subspaces by Chebyshev subspaces

We examine to what extent finite-dimensional spaces defined on locally compact subsets of the line and possessing various weak Chebyshev properties (involving sign changes, zeros, alternation of best approximations, and peak points) can be uniformly approximated by a sequence of spaces having related properties.     

氮化硼纳米管-纳米片分级结构的制备及光学和吸附特性

将五硼酸铵、 氨硼烷络合物和氧化镁混合, 球磨均匀后, 在1200 ℃及0.6 L/min流动氨气保护条件下退火6 h, 即可在氧化铝基片上收集到白色毛状产物. 采用X射线衍射(XRD), 红外光谱(FTIR)、 扫描电子显微镜(SEM)、 透射电子显微镜(TEM)、 拉曼光谱(Raman)、 紫外-可见吸收光谱(UV-Vis)和荧光光谱(PL)对产物进行了表征. 结果表明, 样品呈一维线状分级结构, 长度大于5 mm, 中间为竹节状空心结构, 内部管径为50~350 nm, 外径范围为200~800 nm. 分级结构表面负载了大量氮化硼(BN)纳米薄片, 单个薄片厚度约为13 nm. 薄片弯曲褶皱, 相互交织, 构成1个氮化硼片层, 其厚度约为50~200 nm. UV-Vis和PL光谱测试结果表明, 氮化硼纳米管(BNNT)分级结构在紫外光材料领域具有一定的应用潜力, 且对亚甲基蓝具有良好的吸附能力(7 min即可吸附71%, 107 min时可吸附96%). 对比实验结果表明, BNNT的生长机理遵循气-液-固相(VLS)模型, 而表面负载的超薄BN片的生长机理遵循气-固相(VS)模型.     

3,9-咔唑聚合物基态和激发态性质的理论研究

用密度泛函B3LYP方法对3,9-咔唑低聚物[(3,9-carbazole)n(n=1,2,3,4,6,8)]体系进行了全优化, 计算得到电离能、电子亲合势、空穴抽取能及电子抽取能等相关能量, 用ZINDO和TD-DFT方法计算得到吸收光谱; 分析了各种能量的变化及光谱规律. 用外推法由低聚物分子的各种性质与聚合度n相联系得到高聚物的性质, 将所得结果与2,7-咔唑(2,7-carbazole)及类似聚合物进行了比较分析. 结果表明, 3,9位聚合的咔唑整体共轭程度降低, 光谱蓝移, 其IP值和聚芴相近, 可以作为空穴接受材料应用于多层电子荧光器件的空穴传输层. 用CIS方法进行优化得到部分分子的S1激发态结构, 用ZINDO和TD-DFT方法得到对应的发射光谱.     

碱性水蒸气处理的ZSM-5沸石酸性质及孔结构的影响

 采用XRD，NH3－TPD，比表面积和孔结构测定等研究了在不同温度下用含10％NH3的水蒸气处理时HZSM－5沸石n（Si）／n（Al）＝25）酸性质及孔结构的变化规律．结果表明，随着处理温度的提高，HZSM－5的结构未发生明显的变化；样品的总酸量下降很快，但弱酸分布量相对提高，而强酸分布量相对下降；提高处理温度，样品的比表面积和微孔体积减小，二次孔或中孔体积及外表面积有增大的趋势．     

Synthesis,crystal structure,and luminescence of a new zinc(II) coordination polymer based on 2-naphthol-5-carboxylate and 4,4′-bipyridine

To further explore the coordination possibilities of naphthalene-based carboxylic acids, a Zn^II coordination polymer, [Zn₃(L)₆(bipy)₂] _n (1), with bulky 2-naphthol-5-carboxylate (L) and bridging 4,4′-bipyridine (bipy), was synthesized and characterized. Structural analysis reveals that 1 is a 1-D polymeric chain with trinuclear units as nodes, which are further extended via interchain secondary interactions, such as O–H ··· O hydrogen-bonding and aromatic π ··· π stacking interactions, to form an overall 3-D framework. Complex 1 exhibits strong solid-state luminescence emission at room temperature, mainly originating from intraligand π→π* transition of L.     

Invariant Mean—Value Property and M—Harmonicity in the Unit Ball of R^n

In 1993,Ahern,Flores and Rudin showed that,if f is integrable over the unit ball BC^n of C^n and satisfies∫BC^nfoφdv=f（φ（0)) for every φ∈Aut(BC^n),then f is M-harmonic if and only if n≤11.The present paper is about an analogous question in the context of the unit ball Bn of R^n as well as in the weighted setting.     

纳米团簇B92的密度泛函理论研究

利用密度泛函理论(DFT)研究了一种新颖的准球形纳米团簇B92.经过结构优化和频率分析,这一准球形笼状团簇的直径为0.968 nm,其结构满足Eoustani提出的"Aufbau principle".团簇B92的平均结合能、能隙(HOMO-LUMO gap)、垂直电离势(VIP)及垂直电子亲和势(VEA)分别为5.28 eV,1.19 eV,5.47eV及2.45 eV.计算所得到的红外谱(IR)上有一个明显的峰在895 Cm-1处.此谱将有助于从实验上确定本文所提出的团簇B92的结构,团簇B92的电荷分布表明,其有望成为未来纳米电子学中的一种电容器,另外,作为比较,本文也给出了其他一些笼状硼团簇的性质.     

单调和Fuzzy单调变分不等式的补偿方法

在实自反Banach空间,用补偿方法研究单调和Fuzzy单调广义非线性变分不等式,得到了几个解的存在性定理.改进和推广了Browder,Pascali-Sburlan,Zhang等人的各种结果.     

聚丙烯酰胺水溶液的流变性质

粘性指进现象;聚丙烯酰胺水溶液的流变性质