We report on an electrochemical method for the determination of the activity of trypsin. A multi-functional substrate peptide (HHHAKSSATGGC-HS) is designed and immobilized on a gold electrode. The three His residues in the N-terminal are able to recruit thionine-loaded graphene oxide (GO/thionine), a nanocover adopted for signal amplification. Once the peptide is cleaved under enzymatic catalysis by trypsin (cleavage site: Lys residue), the His residues leave the electrode, and the GO/thionine cannot cover the peptide-modified electrode anymore. Thus, the changes of the electrochemical signal of thionine, typically acquired at a voltage of -0.35 V, can be used to determine the activity of trypsin. A detection range of 1 × 10−4 to 1 U, with a detection limit of 3.3 × 10−5 U, can be achieved, which is better than some currently available methods. In addition, the method is highly specific, facile, and has the potential for the detection of trypsin-like proteases.
Graphene oxide was adopted as a nanocover for the development of a sensitive electrochemical method to detect the activity of trypsin.
Water‐splitting photoanodes based on semiconductor materials typically require a dopant in the structure and co‐catalysts on the surface to overcome the problems of charge recombination and high catalytic barrier. Unlike these conventional strategies, a simple treatment is reported that involves soaking a sample of pristine BiVO4 in a borate buffer solution. This modifies the catalytic local environment of BiVO4 by the introduction of a borate moiety at the molecular level. The self‐anchored borate plays the role of a passivator in reducing the surface charge recombination as well as that of a ligand in modifying the catalytic site to facilitate faster water oxidation. The modified BiVO4 photoanode, without typical doping or catalyst modification, achieved a photocurrent density of 3.5 mA cm?2 at 1.23 V and a cathodically shifted onset potential of 250 mV. This work provides an extremely simple method to improve the intrinsic photoelectrochemical performance of BiVO4 photoanodes. 相似文献
Lithium–sulfur (Li–S) battery is considered as a promising option for electrochemical energy storage applications because of its low-cost and high theoretical capacity. However, the practical application of Li–S battery is still hindered due to the poor electrical conductivity of S cathode and the high dissolution/shuttling of polysulfides in electrolyte. Herein, we report a novel physical and chemical entrapment strategy to address these two problems by designing a sulfur–MnO2@graphene (S–MnO2@GN) ternary hybrid material structure. The MnO2 particles with size of ~ 10 nm are anchored tightly on the wrinkled and twisted GN sheets to form a highly efficient sulfur host. Benefiting from the synergistic effects of GN and MnO2 in both improving the electronic conductivity and hindering polysulfides by physical and chemical adsorptions, this unique S–MnO2@GN composite exhibits excellent electrochemical performances. Reversible specific capacities of 1416, 1114, and 421 mA h g?1 are achieved at rates of 0.1, 0.2, and 3.2 C, respectively. After a 100 cycle stability test, S–MnO2@GN composite cathode could still maintain a reversible capacity of 825 mA h g?1. 相似文献
We consider the minimum problem for the functional
EΩ(u)=∫Ω(|Du|2+λ2χ{u>0})
in three dimensional space, where λ>0 is a constant. We will establish a Liouville type theorem for this variational problem: if u∈C(R3) is a nonnegative and nonzero global minimizer, then u(x)=λ((x−x0)⋅ν)+ for some point x0 and some unit vector ν. 相似文献