Viscometric study of gelatin in dilute aqueous solutions

The viscosities of aqueous solutions of gelatin at different temperatures were carefully measured in a common glass‐capillary Ubbelohde viscometer at dilute to extremely dilute concentrations. The adsorption effect that occurred in the viscosity measurements was theoretically analyzed and discussed. A theory based on Langmuir isotherms could adequately describe the existing data. Some structural information was obtained by the use of an iterative fitting procedure to treat the reduced viscosity data, which disclosed that individual gelatin chains underwent a coil‐to‐helix transition as the solution cooled from 40 to 15 °C. © 2006 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Polym Sci Part B: Polym Phys 44: 1804–1812, 2006     

明胶/羟基磷灰石复合物微球中明胶对无机相影响的研究

在油包水的乳液体系中,通过原位合成的方法使羟基磷灰石(HAP)在明胶链上化学沉积,改变明胶溶液的浓度,制得了一系列的明胶/HAP复合物微球.采用X射线衍射仪(XRD)、傅里叶变换红外光谱仪(FTIR)、扫描电子显微镜(SEM)、透射电子显微镜(TEM)和热失重分析仪(TGA)等对产物的组成、形貌以及热失重情况进行了表征.结果表明,明胶用量对复合物微球中HAP的形成具有重要影响.在明胶溶液浓度为0.025 g/mL时,明胶分子链提供的结合位点恰好与溶液中游离的Ca²⁺、PO₄^3-等离子达到平衡状态,复合物微球中无机相含量达40%,这是明胶与HAP以化学键合的形式结合所能得到的最大值.     

铜(II)/明胶(酶解明胶)络合物的制备及其络合形态的探讨

许多金属元素对于生物体是必需的,Ｎａ、Ｋ、Ｍｇ、Ｃａ、Ｍｎ、Ｆｅ、Ｃｏ、Ｃｕ、Ｍｏ和Ｚｎ在人体中的含量约３％;各种金属离子在生物体中具有不同的作用,其功能是很复杂的．铜在生物体内主要是进行氧化还原反应,起输送氧气和电子载体的作用．如果人体内缺乏铜,则...     

光致清洁电极可见光在线更新与细胞实时监测

电化学传感器在用于细胞实时监测过程中,电极界面污染严重影响其检测性能.通过将纳米光催化剂与电化学传感材料复合,构建光致清洁电化学传感器,为电极界面的高效及无损更新提供了新思路.然而光催化产生的活性氧自由基导致细胞损伤,限制了细胞培养及检测过程中电极界面的实时更新.为此,我们在PEDOT@CdS/TiO₂/ITO可见光致更新电极表面旋涂明胶薄层,在保持电极良好的光致清洁和电化学传感性能同时,利用明胶薄层阻碍光催化产生的活性氧自由基扩散至细胞表面,显著降低了细胞损伤.此外,明胶优良的生物相容性有利于细胞的黏附及增殖.利用该电极,我们实现了人脐静脉内皮细胞（HUVECs）培养过程中,电极的在线更新以及细胞释放一氧化氮的实时监测.     

Gelatin Nanoparticles with Enhanced Affinity for Calcium Phosphate

Gelatin nanoparticles can be tuned with respect to their drug loading efficiency, degradation rate, and release kinetics, which renders these drug carriers highly suitable for a wide variety of biomedical applications. The ease of functionalization has rendered gelatin an interesting candidate material to introduce specific motifs for selective targeting to specific organs, but gelatin nanoparticles have not yet been modified to increase their affinity to mineralized tissue. By means of conjugating bone‐targeting alendronate to biocompatible gelatin nanoparticles, a simple method is developed for the preparation of gelatin nanoparticles which exhibit strong affinity to mineralized surfaces. It has been shown that the degree of alendronate functionalization can be tuned by controlling the glutaraldehyde crosslinking density, the molar ratio between alendronate and glutaraldehyde, as well as the pH of the conjugation reaction. Moreover, it has been shown that the affinity of gelatin nanoparticles to calcium phosphate increases considerably upon functionalization with alendronate. In summary, gelatin nanoparticles have been developed, which exhibit great potential for use in bone‐specific drug delivery and regenerative medicine.

     

纳米硫化钴与明胶蛋白质的原位键合作用研究

利用紫外-可见吸收光谱(UV-Vis)和傅里叶变换红外光谱(FT-IR),研究了pH值11.00时,不同温度下CoS纳米粒子与明胶蛋白质的键合作用.根据吸光度与CoS浓度的关系,由Lineweave-Burk方程计算了不同温度下CoS纳米粒子与明胶蛋白作用的键合常数K(温度为293 K时键合常数K为3.01×10³L/mol;温度为301 K时键合常数K为2.12×10³L/mol;温度为313 K时键合常数K为1.85×10³L/mol)以及对应温度下反应的热力学参数(ΔrH_m=-17.93 kJ/mol;ΔrS_m=4.93 J/(K.mol);ΔrG_m=-19.37/-19.41/-19.47kJ/mol).CoS纳米粒子与明胶蛋白之间主要靠静电力结合.研究结果为初步探索纳米颗粒与纤维状蛋白质之间相互作用的化学机制提供了必要的信息.     

Structure and wettability relationship of coelectrospun poly (L‐lactic acid)/gelatin composite fibrous mats

Coelectrospun polylactide(PLA)/gelatin (GE) composite fibrous matrixes have been identified to exhibit much improved performances compared to the respective components; however, the reasons for their water contact angles decreasing to zero at proper PLA/GE ratios remain unclear. To get a deep understanding of the phenomenon, PLA and GE were coelectrospun with different PLA/GE ratios in this study. Although the resulting composite fibers were homogeneous in appearance, they were detected different microscopic structures by transmission electron mircroscope (TEM) and via morphological observations after selective removal of either PLA or GE component. Together with the results of degradation study in phosphate buffered solution, a kind of cocontinuous phase separation microstructure could be identified for the PLA(50 wt%)/GE(50 wt%) composite fibers, which also showed the water contact angle of 0°. This value was far lower than those of electrospun PLA (～123°) and GE (～42°) fibrous matrixes. The X‐ray photoelectron spectrometry (XPS) data revealed that the polar side groups of protein macromolecules have moved toward composite fiber surface with solvent evaporation during electrospinning, due to the hydrophobic interaction between PLA and GE. Then the excellent hydrophilicity of PLA(50 wt%)/GE(50 wt%) composite fibers could be suggested as the consequence of: (1) the cocontinuous phase separation structure could provide more interface and void for water molecules penetrating; and (2) the accumulation of polar groups on composite fiber surface significantly increased the surface wettability. Copyright © 2010 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

壳聚糖/明胶/TiO2三元复合膜的制备与功能特性

纳米TiO2用阴离子表面改性剂SDS改性后,以溶液共混法制备了壳聚糖／明胶/TiO2复合膜,用FTIR、XRD、SEM、TEM表征了其结构与形态,并测试了其吸水率、透光率、力学性能和抑菌性能。进而探讨了复合膜中明胶和纳米TiO2含量对壳聚糖膜性能的影响。结果表明：复合膜中,壳聚糖、明胶和TiO2微粒间存在强烈的氢键相互作用,从而使明胶与壳聚糖具有良好的相容性,TiO2与壳聚糖、明胶分子间有很好的界面作用。适量TiO2的加入,可使壳聚糖／明胶共混膜的力学性能得到改善,明胶质量分数为0．30时,掺杂wTiO2为0．01、0．02的复合膜较壳聚糖／明胶共混膜的湿强及干态韧性分别提高了55．9％,40．8％和49．7％,47．9％。此外,复合膜的抑菌性能随明胶的增加而降低,但随TiO2的掺杂比的增加而增强,纳米TiO2的引入拓宽了壳聚糖和明胶两种天然高分子材料的应用范围。     

Cu~(2 )和 Fe~(3 )与明胶的相互作用

利用荧光猝灭法,研究了不同温度、酸度下,Ｃｕ２＋和 Ｆｅ３＋与明胶的相互作用．计算了猝灭常数和结合常数．紫外光谱和显微红外光谱的测定结果表明,Ｃｕ２＋、Ｆｅ３＋与明胶分子中的酰胺键发生了作用．探讨了猝灭机理．计算出的热力学函数表明,在Ｃｕ２＋、Ｆｅ３＋与明胶的相互作用过程中熵变起主要的作用．