Yi Zhang,Shuxin Jia,Jintao Yuan,Peide Zhu,Ying Gan,Guangfang Fan,Shuling Yu,Jiahua Shi
Drug delivery carriers hold tremendous promise for improving cancer treatment, and polyrotaxane (PR) has shown excellent drug-carrying properties. However, there have been some reports that, when used as a drug carrier, water-soluble PR is not easily labeled with organic fluorescent dyes. Herein, we synthesized a drug-loaded fluorescent porphyrin-terminated PR (PR-COOH) which can be used as a tracer material in drug and gene delivery. The structure, morphology and zeta potential of PR-COOH were characterized by nuclear magnetic resonance, high-resolution transmission electron microscopy and zeta potentiometry. In this research, cisplatin (CDDP) is used as a model drug. The zeta potential, drug encapsulation efficiency and drug release of CDDP-loaded PR (PR-COOH-Pt) were studied. Confocal laser scanning microscopy showed that PR-COOH could be internalized by HeLa and CT26 cells. The antitumor efficacy of PR-COOH-Pt was investigated in vitro by the 3-(4,5-dimethylthiazol-2-yl)-2,5-diphenyltetrazolium bromide (MTT) assay and in vivo by a xenograft tumor model. The results showed that PR-COOH-Pt could significantly inhibit tumor growth; thus PR-COOH-Pt has a promising role in cancer therapy.
Up-to-date laser-driven lightings confront a challenge of simultaneously achieving good photometric and chromatic performances. Herein, the coupling of “patterned package design” and “phosphor wheel” was proposed and demonstrated effectively to deal with this tough issue, based on a new architecture of CaAlSiN 3 :Eu 2+ (CASN:Eu) glass ceramic film (GCF) on Y 3 Al 5 O 12 :Ce 3+ (YAG:Ce) GC plate. The fabricated composite has no interface between the two functional layers and retains the admirable luminescent features from CASN:Eu and YAG:Ce for the microstructural integrity during co-sintering. The studies on laser-microcrystalline interactions reveal that the luminescence saturation is almost determined by thermal quenching for YAG:Ce, but is ascribed to thermal/intensity quenching which are equally crucial for CASN:Eu. Benefiting from the elaborate architecture design, good color chromaticity tunability was obtained, and severe photon reabsorption was reduced. Moreover, accompanied with the rotation induced increase of thermal convection to air and pulse-like excitation, the constructed lighting engine under blue laser driven shows bright white light with luminous flux (LF) higher than 1000 lm, adjustable chromaticity from cool to warm, and improved color rendering index (CRI) approaching to 70.