INORGANIC CHEMISTRY
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2025
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Chengke Tan,Junhang Tian,Jihuan Xie,Yingnan Liu,Qi Liu,Weidong Zhuang
Luminescent properties of phosphors can be modified and improved by constructing energy transfer. In this article, a series of Ce3+- and/or Eu2+-doped Ca-α-sialon phosphors were synthesized through the traditional solid-state reaction method. The construction of an efficient energy transfer enables the modulation of a wide range of light colors, thereby facilitating a gradual color change from blue-green (0.1844, 0.2535) to yellow (0.4282, 0.5051). Moreover, the codoping of Ce3+ enhances the luminescence intensity of Eu2+ by approximately 2.2 times. Within the experimental gradient, the energy-transfer efficiency can reach up to 58.7%, and the energy-transfer mechanism is a quadrupole–quadrupole interaction. Gaussian fitting of the emission spectrum of the codoped samples reveals that the intensities of the Eu2+ and Ce3+ emission peaks of the codoped samples at 423 K are 78 and 87% of those at room temperature, respectively. Moreover, the thermal stability of the characteristic peaks of Ce3+ in the codoped samples is significantly enhanced compared to those doped alone. These excellent properties highlight the potential application of CaSi9Al3ON15/Ce3+, Eu2+ phosphor in white light WLEDs.
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FOOD CHEMISTRY
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2025
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Kaiyu Jiang,Wei Gong,Yu-Xuan Liang,Juncai Tu,Jinjin Li,Weiman Gao,Xiuping Dong,Beiwei Zhu
To investigate the effects of processing temperatures on α, β-unsaturated aldehyde-mediated modifications of cod protein, a clickable probe, 4-(2-Propyn-1-yloxy)-2-butenal (yne-ACR), was developed to simulate α, β-unsaturated aldehyde modifications on cod protein in simulated processing systems (25 °C, 90 °C, and 180 °C). Processing at 180 °C resulted in a 3-fold increase in the hydrophobicity, while modifications under thermal processing had limited effects on the content of free nucleophilic amino acids. However, modification at 180 °C significantly increased the content of carbonylated proteins to 14.7 nmol/mg protein. Cod protein modified during thermal processing (90 °C and 180 °C) exhibited superior emulsifying and foaming properties than those subjected to heating alone. Cod protein processed at 90 °C exhibited 757 identified modified components, representing the highest number among the three processing temperatures, and thermally induced structural changes in cod protein facilitated multiple modifications on a single peptide. These findings provide new tools and insights for the study of food protein modification.
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ANALYTICAL AND BIOANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY
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2023
·Vol. 415
·期 9
·1733-1740
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Tang Kexin,Dong Jiacheng,Zheng Zhengheng,Zhang Ting,Pan Huayi,Jia Honghua,Li Yan,Wei Ping
ω-Transaminases (ω-TAs) are widely available for the production of chiral amines and unnatural amino acids. Herein, a rapid spectrophotometric method was developed for screening ω-TAs based on the colored products that can be generated from transamination reactions between aliphatic α-diketones and amino donors catalyzed by ω-TAs. The possible mechanism of the formation of the colored product was investigated according to LC-Q-TOF–MS analysis. Among seven diketones, 2,3-butanedione was selected as the most suitable amino acceptor for colorimetric screening of ω-TAs with high efficiency, high sensitivity, and low background interference. Meanwhile, the absorbance of the colored product generated by 2,3-butanedione catalyzed by ω-TAs in this method was linearly correlated with the results by HPLC analysis. This method was also confirmed to effectively screen ω-TA mutants with high activity towards isopropylamine. Graphical Abstract
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COLLOIDS AND SURFACES A-PHYSICOCHEMICAL AND ENGINEERING ASPECTS
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2020
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Bao-Shui Wu,Peng Wang,Shu-Hua Teng
Mesoporous carbon-coated iron oxide (α-Fe 2 O 3 @C) nanoparticles were hydrothermally synthesized by using α-Fe 2 O 3 nanospheres (ca. 50 nm) as the cores and resorcinol as the carbon source of the shells. The formation of the mesoporous carbon coatings was confirmed by means of SEM, TEM , FT-IR, TG, XPS and BET measurements. Moreover, the coating thickness was easily adjusted to be 4, 7 and 10 nm by changing the amount of resorcinol. When used as the anodes for lithium-ion batteries (LIBs), the α-Fe 2 O 3 @C nanoparticles exhibited significantly improved electrochemical properties as compared to pure α-Fe 2 O 3 nanoparticles. With the increase of the coating thickness, the α-Fe 2 O 3 @C electrodes presented an initial increase and subsequent decrease in their cycling stability and rate performance. Especially, the α-Fe 2 O 3 @C-7 nanoparticles displayed a high reversible capacity of 1223 mA h/g at 1 A/g, a good cycling stability retaining 1093 mA h/g at 1 A/g after 100 cycles as well as a remarkable rate performance of 570 mA h/g at 5 A/g. The quantitative kinetic analysis revealed that 58 % of the charge storage was contributed by the capacitive process at 0.5 mV/s. The well-defined core-shell structure and superior electrochemical performance of the α-Fe 2 O 3 @C-7 nanoparticles will make them a promising anode for LIBs.
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Forensic Toxicology
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2016
·Vol. 34
·期 2
·398-402
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Shintani-Ishida Kaori,Kakiuchi Yasuhiro,Ikegaya Hiroshi
The toxicological detection of the new synthetic cathinone 4′-methyl-α-pyrrolidinohexanophenone (MPHP) in urine samples has been impossible, because much of MPHP is metabolized before its excretion into urine. In this study, we successfully quantified unmetabolized MPHP in urine of an autopsy case using a sensitive method by liquid chromatography–time-of-flight-mass spectrometry. The quantification method showed good linearity in the range of 1.00–100 ng/mL, and the limit of detection was 0.5 ng/mL in human urine. In the autopsy case, the concentrations of MPHP in urine, plasma, and liver tissue samples were determined to be 60.1, 32.9 ng/mL, and 63.1 ng/g, respectively.
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ZEITSCHRIFT FUR NATURFORSCHUNG SECTION A-A JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL SCIENCES
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2021
·Vol. 77
·期 3
·269-278
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Zizheng Yue,Wenlin Feng
In this work, a fiber-optic fluoride-ion-detection Michelson interferometer based on the thin-core fiber (TCF) and no-core fiber (NCF) coated with α-Fe 2 O 3 /ZrO 2 sensing film is proposed and presented. The single-mode fiber (SMF) is spliced with the TCF and NCF in turn, and a waist-enlarged taper is spliced between them. Then, a silver film is plated on the end face of NCF to enhance the reflection. After the absorption of fluoride ion by the sensing film, the effective refractive index (RI) of the coated cladding will change, which leads to the regular red shift of the interference dip with the increasing fluoride-ion concentration. Thus, the fluoride-ion concentrations can be determined according to the corresponding dip wavelength shifts. The results show that the sensor has an excellent linear response ( R 2 = 0.995) with good sensitivity (8.970 nm/ppm) when the fluoride-ion concentration is in the range of 0–1.5 ppm. The response time is about 15 s. The sensor has the advantage of good selectivity, good temperature and pH stabilities, and can be applied to detect fluoride ion effectively.
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SPECTROCHIMICA ACTA PART A-MOLECULAR AND BIOMOLECULAR SPECTROSCOPY
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2021
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Xiaogang He,Xiang Han,Jiaping Yu,Yulong Feng,Ganghui Chu
α- Glucosidase is one of the main enzymes causing elevated blood glucose, and Coreopsis tinctoria extract can be used as a natural inhibitor of α -Glucosidase. Therefore, a new method was proposed for predicting the inhibitory activity on α- Glucosidase of Coreopsis tinctoria extract based on near infrared spectroscopy. The absorbance of the inhibitory system was measured by ultraviolet spectroscopy, which was used to study the inhibitory activity on a-glucosidase of Coreopsis tinctoria extract. The near infrared spectra of the solid samples were collected. By selecting spectral preprocessing and optimizing spectral bands, a rapid prediction model of the inhibitory activity was established by partial least squares regression. The root mean square error of cross-validation (RMSECV), correlation coefficient (R) value and the ratio of prediction to deviation (RPD) value were used as indicators of the evaluation model. The near infrared spectrum model was established by combining the best spectral preprocessing of the continuous wavelet transform (CWT) and the best spectral band. The root mean square error of cross-validation (RMSECV) of this model was 0.815%, the correlation coefficient (R) value was 0.942, and the ratio of prediction to deviation (RPD) was 3.0. The root mean square error of prediction (RMSEP) of the model by prediction set was 0.819%, the correlation coefficient (R) value was 0.950, and the RPD was 3.2. The model shows that the fitting relationship between the predicted inhibition value and the reference inhibition value of the near infrared spectral model is good. The results showed that there was a good correlation between near infrared spectroscopy and the inhibitory activity of Coreopsis tinctoria extract. Thus, the established model was robust and effective and could be used for rapid quantification of α -Glucosidase inhibitory activity. The prediction method is simple and rapid, and can be extended to study the inhibition of other medicinal plants.
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JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURAL AND FOOD CHEMISTRY
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2022
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Yawen Jiang,Xiaoxiao Li,Tjaard Pijning,Yuxiang Bai,Lubbert Dijkhuizen
Limosilactobacillus reuteri 121 4,6-α-glucanotransferase (Lr121 4,6-α-GTase), belonging to the glycosyl hydrolase (GH) 70 GtfB subfamily, converts starch and maltodextrins into linear isomalto/malto polysaccharides (IMMPs) with consecutive (α1 → 6) linkages. The recent elucidation of its crystal structure allowed identification and analysis of further structural features that determine its reaction and product specificity. Herein, sequence alignments between GtfB enzymes with different product linkage specificities (4,6-α-GTase and 4,3-α-GTase) identified amino acid residues in GH70 homology motifs, which may be critical for reaction and product specificity. Based on these alignments, four Lr121 GtfB-ΔN mutants (I1020M, S1057P, H1056G, and Q1126I) were constructed. Compared to wild-type Lr121 GtfB-ΔN, mutants S1057P and Q1126I had considerably improved catalytic efficiencies. Mutants H1056G and Q1126I showed a 9% decrease and an 11% increase, respectively, in the ratio of (α1 → 6) over (α1 → 4) linkages in maltodextrin-derived products. A change in linkage type (e.g., (α1 → 6) linkages to (α1 → 3) linkages) was not observed. The possible functional roles of these Lr121 GtfB-ΔN residues located around the acceptor substrate-binding subsites are discussed. The results provide new insights into structural determinants of the reaction and product specificity of Lr121 GtfB 4,6-α-GTase.
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Nanoscale
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2018
·Vol. 11
·期 3
·1111-1122
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Chunmei Li,Zhihui Chen,Weiyong Yuan,Qing-Hua Xu,Chang Ming Li
Photoelectrochemical (PEC) water splitting represents a promising strategy to convert solar energy into chemical energy in the form of hydrogen, but its performance is severely limited by the sluggish water oxidation reaction. Herein, for the first time, we report the direct assembly of an ultrathin, uniform, and dense layer of Co3O4 on wormlike nanostructured hematite (WN-α-Fe2O3) to form a large-area and high-density WN-α-Fe2O3@Co3O4 core–shell nanoarray via in situ hydrothermal growth followed by calcination, in which the electrostatic force between WN-α-Fe2O3 and the reactants, pH- and temperature-controlled structures of WN-α-Fe2O3, and ultralow nucleation rate of Co3O4 precursors all play critical roles. The obtained heteronanostructure array shows a photocurrent density of 3.48 mA cm−2, which is 4.05 times higher than that of pristine WN-α-Fe2O3 (0.86 mA cm−2), an onset potential of ∼0.62 V, 60 mV lower than that of α-Fe2O3 (∼0.68 V), and a photoconversion efficiency of 0.55%, 3.93 times higher than that of WN-α-Fe2O3 (0.14%). This is among the highest performances reported for Fe2O3-based photoanodes for water splitting. It is discovered that the Co3O4 shells can significantly enhance the charge separation, accelerate the charge transport and transfer, and reduce the charge transfer resistance from the photoelectrode to the electrolyte for a fast water oxidation reaction, thereby greatly promoting the PEC water oxidation performance of pristine WN-α-Fe2O3. This work not only creates a novel low-cost and Earth-abundant WN-α-Fe2O3@Co3O4 photoelectrode with superior PEC water oxidation performance and provides scientific insights into the enhancement mechanism, but also offers a general strategy for the in situ growth of water oxidation catalysts on various photoelectrodes with 3-D complex geometries for PEC water splitting.
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Frontiers in Plant Science
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2021
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Liu Wenqian,Zhang Ruoyan,Xiang Chenggang,Zhang Ruiyun,Wang Qing,Wang Tao,Li Xiaojun,Lu Xiaohong,Gao Shunli,Liu Zixi,Liu Mengshuang,Gao Lihong,Zhang Wenna
Climate changes especially chilling stress affects cucurbit crops during winter seasonal production. Grafting to pumpkin rootstocks is widely used to improve the vigor of cucurbits, especially cucumber (Cucumis sativus L.) plants, in the face of chilling stress. In our study, multi-disciplinary aspect approaches were used to investigate growth changes of pumpkin under chilling stress. Firstly, the morphological and physiological characteristics of 14 pumpkin (Cucurbita moschata) varieties following different periods of chilling stress was analyzed by using physiological means. Mathematical results of principal component analysis (PCA) with chlorophyll-a, chlorophyll-b, carotenoid contents, chilling injury index and relative electrolyte permeability indicated that relative electrolyte permeability as the primary judgment index was best associated with the comparison of chilling tolerance in pumpkin rootstock varieties. Then, transcriptomic and DCMU (Diuron) application and chlorophyll fluorescence examination analysis of pumpkin leaves revealed that 390 Cucurbita moschata differentially expressed genes (CmoDEGs) that affect photosynthesis were upregulated in leaves. 127 CmoDEGs both in leaves and roots were enriched for genes involved in unsaturated fatty acid metabolism, suggesting that plasma membrane lipids are involved in chilling perception. The results of increased composition of unsaturated fatty acid in leaves and qRT-PCR analysis of relative mRNA abundance confirmed that α-linolenic acid biosynthesis was responding to pumpkin chilling tolerance. The integration of physiological, mathematical bioinformatical and biological analysis results contributes to our understanding of the molecular mechanisms underlying chilling tolerance and its improvement in cucumber grafted on pumpkin rootstocks. It provided an important theoretical basis and reference for further understanding on the impact of climate change on plant physiological changes.
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INTERNATIONAL IMMUNOPHARMACOLOGY
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2025
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Jing Tian,Feng Xiao,Yezhu Xu,Yuen Chen,Chenli He,Su Jiang,Yunping Tang
α-Monoglucosyl rutin (α-GR) is a structurally optimized rutin derivative, and its higher water solubility and bioavailability may help it exert better pharmacological effects in vivo . The present study examined the protective effects and potential mechanisms of α-GR on cyclophosphamide (CTX)-induced colonic injury in mice. The findings showed that α-GR significantly reduced serum levels of lipopolysaccharide (LPS) and diamine oxidase (DAO), effectively alleviating the histopathological damage in colon tissues caused by CTX exposure. Additionally, α-GR maintained the integrity of intestinal epithelial cells by promoting the secretion of secretory immunoglobulin A (sIgA) and upregulating the expression of tight junction proteins (Claudin-1 and ZO-1), while also reducing the levels of colonic pro-inflammatory factors and oxidative stress. In terms of gut microbiota, 16S rRNA gene sequencing and metabolomic analyses revealed that α-GR could effectively reverse the gut metabolic disorders and microbiota structural changes induced by CTX, promoted the growth of beneficial bacteria like norank_f_Muribaculaceae , Bacteroides, and Alloprevotella , and reduced the relative abundance of pathogenic bacteria ( Desulfovibrio ), while also revealing the complex correlation between them. In terms of mechanism research, α-GR further attenuated intestinal damage by regulating the TLR4/NF-κB and Nrf2/HO-1 pathways. This provides new ideas for the development of functional dietary supplements to treat CTX-associated intestinal toxicity.
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Journal of Environmental Chemical Engineering
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2025
·Vol. 14
·期 1
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Chengzhao Liu,Tao Liu,Suhua Liu,Xiufang Zhang,Guanlong Wang
Recently, it was reported photocatalytic H 2 O 2 generation performed in biphasic system could significantly increase the H 2 O 2 yield. Aiming to further improve the H 2 O 2 yield, hydrophobic heterojunction of α-S and vacancy-rich g-C 3 N 4 (CNN) was constructed. H 2 O 2 production performance tests demonstrated the 0.2α-S/CNN composite achieved H 2 O 2 yields 1.72 and 1.99 times higher than pristine CNN and α-S, respectively. N-(C) 3 bonded nitrogen(N 3 C ) promoted oxygen activation, and heterojunction facilitated the separation of photogenerated holes and electrons. These contributed more effective photocatalytic synthesis of H 2 O 2 . The optimal 0.2α-S/CNN achieved a production rate of 2218 μmol g −1 , with an impressive apparent quantum yield (AQE) of 6.92 % under 455 nm monochromatic light, outperforming the state-of-the-art catalysts. The proposed mechanism suggested that photogenerated electrons migrated from α-S to CNN, reducing adsorbed O 2 to form •O 2 − radicals. These radicals subsequently reacted with water in the aqueous phase to generate H 2 O 2 via 2e − ORR. Due to the strong hydrophobicity of the catalyst, most •O 2 − radicals were generated in benzyl alcohol (BA) phase, while H 2 O 2 predominantly formed in the aqueous phase. This spatial separation delayed H 2 O 2 decomposition, facilitating its accumulation and enhancing overall yield.
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