The heterogeneity of extracellular vesicles (EVs) surface information represents different functions, which is neglected in previous studies. In this study, a label-free SERS analysis approach is demonstrated to study fundamental EV biological and physical information heterogeneity by matching specific sizes of nano-enhanced particles. This strategy reveals informative, comprehensive, and high-quality SERS spectra of the overall exosome surface, and effectively circumvents the key information loss caused by the spatial resistance of NPs binding to the 293 exosomes' concave structure. The classification of normal and cancerous cell-derived exosomes by PCA method, the accuracy is improved from 91.2% to 95.1% by optimizing sizes of nano-enhanced particles. In addition, stem cell-derived EVs of diverse sizes and morphologies similarly show acuity of spectrum variation to NPs size, which is conductive to qualitative studies. This new strategy will offer a widened in-depth understanding of the surface information, size, and morphology of EVs, which can be applied to the study of biological functions.
Le Lyu,Guanqiu Hao,Yuhao Wang,Yingying Chen,Yongping Chen,Xiangdong Liu
This study presents a microfluidic approach for fabrication of compound phase change fibers (CPCFs) encapsulating nano-enhanced phase change material (PCM), RT25, for thermal regulation. The produced fibers are flexible and have strong compatibility and durable stability, with their size and the proportion of PCM can be precisely controlled by the microfluidic approach. Especially, a hydroxy surface modification method was used to uniformly disperse SiO 2 nanoparticles into the RT25, aiming to enhance the thermal regulation performance of the CPCFs. Thermal performance test was conducted and it indicated that, compared with the compound phase change fiber (CPCF) with pure RT25, the CPCF incorporated with 2 wt% SiO 2 nanoparticles presented a notable increase in thermal conductivity by 46.52 % and 45.51 % for solid-state and liquid-state enclosed PCM with a limited reduction in both melting and solidification enthalpies by 9.21 % and 10.1 %, respectively. Moreover, an experiment simulating the heat dissipation scenario of the electronic cabinet under intermittent running with short operation and long rest was conducted by using the CPCFs. It showed that adding SiO 2 nanoparticles can improve the heat absorption process (solid-to-liquid phase) via the CPCFs with a smaller temperature increase (i.e., the maximum temperature of simulated inner electronic device in the cabinet for the repeated intermittent running) and it is also able to make the CPCFs renew (liquid-to-solid phase) more quickly and ready for heat absorption process in the next cycle. These CPCFs offer a promising alternative for more efficient and sustainable thermal management of the electrical/electronic equipment.