JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT
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2021
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Ying Zhang,Yujie Luo,Shiqi Fu,Xiulong Lv,Qian He,Fangying Ji,Xuan Xu
UVC (wavelength < 280 nm) has a wide range of applications in the field of water disinfection due to its excellent bactericidal performance. In this work, we synthesized an upconversion luminescent material, β-NaYF 4 : Pr 3+ , Li + (NYF), which can generate UVC, and compounded it with a BiOCl photocatalyst to synthesize β-NaYF 4 : Pr 3+ , Li + @BiOCl (NYF-Bi) with a core-shell structure. The NYF-Bi composite material can be driven under visible light and has high photocatalytic activity . The bactericidal performance of NYF and NYF-Bi were evaluated using Escherichia coli , Staphylococcus aureus , Shigella and Salmonella . The NYF-Bi composite material killed 99.99% of E. coli under visible light (λ ≥ 420 nm) within 180 min and maintained high germicidal efficacy after 4 cycles. Finally, we deduced the sterilization mechanism of the NYF-Bi composite material through carrier dynamics studies and catching agent experiments. The death of bacteria was mainly caused by UVC light and active species , including h + , OH, and O- 2. This research provides a new material for water disinfection.
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CHIRALITY
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2021
·Vol. 33
·期 9
·549-557
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IF 2.437
Qianyun Ma,Wei Cong,Ye Liu,Zikai Geng,Ying Lin,Zhaokun Wang
In this work, enantioseparation of four chiral fluoroquinolones (FQs), namely, ofloxacin, gemifloxacin, lomefloxacin, and gatifloxacin, was achieved by capillary electrophoresis with sulfated-β-cyclodextrin (S-β-CD) as chiral selector. Factors affecting the enantiomeric resolution, such as the concentrations of S-β-CD, BGE pH conditions, and the buffer types and concentrations, were optimized and discussed. A BGE consisting of 30 g/L S-β-CD and 30-mM phosphate at pH 4.0 was found fit for enantiomeric resolution of ofloxacin and gemifloxacin, while the same BGE at pH 3.0 was suitable for enantioseparation of lomefloxacin and gatifloxacin. The pH-dependent experiments showed that separation resolutions of four FQs enantiomers were significantly affected by BGE pH, which was thought to be related with the varying electrostatic attraction between the enantiomers and chiral selector. To verify this speculation, molecular docking studies were used for further investigation of the enantiomeric recognition mechanism of S-β-CD. Molecular model indicated that hydrophobic effect and hydrogen bond were involved in host-guest inclusion, but the electrostatic attraction enhanced the chiral discrimination by increasing the difference in binding energy between individual enantiomers and S-β-CD. This work provided a further insight into the chiral recognition mechanisms of CD derivatives.
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JOURNAL OF SEPARATION SCIENCE
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2021
·Vol. 44
·期 17
·3295-3304
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IF 3.645
Xiuyu Sui,Jin Guan,Xiaoyu Li,Lei Gu,Feng Yan,Shuang Shi,Dongxiang Zhang
An open tubular capillary electrochromatography column was prepared by immobilizing β-cyclodextrin on the inner wall of pretreated capillary via noncovalent adsorption of polydopamine. The resulting coating layer on the capillary was characterized by scanning electron microscopy and Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy. Electroosmotic flow was studied to evaluate the variation of the immobilized columns. The prepared columns showed good chiral separation performance toward five proton pump inhibitors including lansoprazole, pantoprazole, tenatoprazole, rabeprazole, and omeprazole. The influences of β-cyclodextrin concentration, coating time, buffer pH, buffer concentration, and applied voltage on separation were investigated. In the optimum conditions, the enantiomers of five analytes were fully resolved within 15 min with high resolutions of 4.57 to 8.13. The method was extensively validated in terms of accuracy, precision, and linearity and proved to be robust. The relative standard deviation values for migration times and peak areas of the analytes representing intraday and interday were less than 1.9 and 3.6%, respectively. Further, the polydopamine/β-cyclodextrin coated capillary column could be successively used over 100 runs without showing significant decrease in the separation efficiency.
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INTERNATIONAL IMMUNOPHARMACOLOGY
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2021
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Huijuan Luo,Nan Xu,Jiazhen Wu,Yuxuan Gan,Liping Chen,Fengkun Guan,Mengyao Li,Yucui Li,Jiannan Chen,Ziren Su,Yuhong Liu
Non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH), an extreme progressive subtype of metabolic associated fatty liver disease, is well characterized by hepatic steatosis, injury and inflammation. It causes irreversible hepatic damage and there are no approved interventions for it. β-PAE, a representatively pharmacological active substance isolated from Pogostemon cablin , has been indicated to alleviate hepatic steatosis and injury through modulating lipid metabolism in rats with simple steatosis. However, its protection against NASH remains unclear. Here, this study explored the potential effect of β-PAE against high-fat diet-induced NASH in rats. The results displayed that β-PAE significantly reduced the gains of body weight and epididymal adipose tissue, liver index and attenuated liver histological damages in NASH rats. It also markedly alleviated hepatic inflammation by inhibiting NLRP3 inflammasome activation. In NASH, the active NLRP3 inflammasome is caused by hepatic lipid abnormal accumulation-induced oxidative stress. Excessive oxidative stress results in hepatic histanoxia, which exacerbates lipid metabolism disorders by elevating CD36 to suppress AMPK signalling pathways. Moreover, the lipid accumulation led by lipid metabolism dysfunction intensifies oxidative stress. A vicious circle is formed among oxidative stress, histanoxia and lipid accumulation, eventually, but β-PAE effectively interrupted it. Interestingly, soluble CD36 (sCD36) was tightly associated not only with hepatic steatosis and injury but also with inflammation. Collectively, β-PAE exerted a positive effect against NASH by interrupting the vicious circle among oxidative stress, histanoxia and lipid accumulation, and sCD36 may be a promising non-invasive tool for NASH diagnosis.
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Microbial Drug Resistance
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2021
·Vol. 27
·期 3
·337-341
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Mingzhi Wang,Bo Ma,Yunfeng Ni,Xiaoyan Xue,Mingkai Li,Jingru Meng,Xiaoxing Luo,Chao Fang,Zheng Hou
Multidrug resistance poses a severe threat to public health and urgently requires new solutions. The natural product chelerythrine (CHE) is a benzophenanthridine alkaloid with antimicrobial potential. In this study, CHE was effective against seven gram-positive bacterial strains, and the minimum inhibitory concentrations (MICs) ranged from 2 to 4 μg/mL. By contrast, CHE showed inferior antibacterial activities against 11 gram-negative strains, and the MICs varied from 16 to 256 μg/mL. We also determined the synergistic/additive effects of combining CHE with nine currently used antibiotics. CHE restored the antibacterial efficacy of the antibiotics against methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus and extended-spectrum β-lactamases producing Escherichia coli. This study suggests that the combination of CHE with conventional antibiotics may be a promising strategy to combat infections caused by multidrug-resistant organisms.
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ANALYTICA CHIMICA ACTA
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2021
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IF 6.558
Meiyan Zhu,Xiaotong Dong,Ming Li,Liangbin Jia,Ye Ma,Minggang Zhao,Hongzhi Cui
Detection of pollutants in seawater faces a great challenge of strong interference, and the facile detection method is lacked. The CoMn 2 O 4 /β-MnO 2 p-n junction oxidase mimetics were successfully prepared for colorimetric detection of hydroquinone in seawater. The catalysis ability was enhanced significantly by the photo-induced p-n junction interface effect. It not only promoted the formation of H 2 O 2 by suppressing the recombination of photon-generated carriers, but also provided the driving force for electron transport . The colorimetric detection of hydroquinone was achieved by fading and exhibited good adaptability in seawater. The obtained good recovery rate (97.23%–101.37%) in seawater makes it an inspiring method for practical application. The photo-induced p-n junction interface effect provides an opportunity for developing the application of colorimetric sensing in seawater detection.
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Journal of Materiomics
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2020
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Pramod K. Kalambate,Sharad S. Upadhyay,Yue Shen,Wanida Laiwattanapaisal,Yunhui Huang
A highly sensitive and selective electrochemical chiral sensor was developed based on the competitive supramolecular interaction of carbon nanofibers (CNFs) embedded sulfobutyl ether-β-cyclodextrin (SBE-β-CD) with optically active cationic drugs at glassy carbon electrode (GCE). The difference in intermolecular hydrogen bonding/stability constant/enantioselectivity coefficient and Gibbs free energy of anionic host SBE-β-CD with enantiomers of amlodipine (R-/S-AML), clenbuterol (R-/S-CBL) and metoprolol (R-/S-MET) as a guest paved the way for efficient discrimination. The proposed sensing platform (CNFs-SBE-β-CD/GCE) could recognize the aforementioned enantiomers based on the discernible difference of peak potential (S/R-AML (ΔE p = 135 mV), R/S-MET (ΔE p = 99 mV) and R/S-CBL (ΔE p = 111 mV). The binding mechanisms and thermodynamic study of the enantiospecific behavior have been investigated using the host-guest chemistry approach inside the nanocavity and results suggest that S-AML, R-MET, and R-CBL show stronger stability constants than their antipodes. Formation of the diastereomeric complex was taken as a measure of enantioselectivity and experimental results indicated that anionic SBE-β-CD is a better chiral ligand than neutral cyclodextrins. The fabricated sensor could be a useful low-cost electrochemical tool for molecular recognition of a variety of cationic species not only of drugs but also from other sources.
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JOURNAL OF DRUG DELIVERY SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
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2020
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IF 2.734
Hongyan Zhang,Shuang Dong,Sheng Zhang,Yufen Li,Ji Li,Yinghui Dai,Dongkai Wang
Effective delivery of anti-tumor drugs to the tumor site remain a challenging issue, such as insufficient uptake by tumor cells, degradation by lysosomes and insufficient drug release. Therefore, it is crucial to utilize smart nanoparticles (NPs) designed with the ability to target the tumor site and respond to the unique microenvironment of the tumor tissue. In this paper, we prepared a novel pH responsive core-shell lipid polymer NPs (FA/PBAE/DTX-NPs). The NPs are composed of a mixed lipid shell (DSPE-PEG 2000 , FA-DSPE-PEG 2000 and lecithin) and a polymer core (poly (β-amino ester), PBAE) for targeted delivery of docetaxel (DTX) to breast cancer. FA-PBAE/DTX-NPs had uniform particle size and excellent physical stability. The study of drug release in vitro showed that FA/PBAE/DTX-NPs could release DTX on demand under different pH.Blank NPs were considered nontoxic, while drug-loaded NPs have strong cytotoxicity to 4T1 cells in vitro . The tertiary amine group of PBAE enhanced endosomal/lysosomal escape of the NPs via the proton sponge effect, which triggers the rapid release of DTX. What's more, in vivo experiments have shown that FA/PBAE/DTX-NPs have favorable targeting, antitumor effect, and minimal systemic toxicity in tumor-bearing mice. To sum up, FA/PBAE/DTX-NPs could be selected as a candidate to delivery drug for breast cancer and improving the efficacy of chemotherapy.
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2020
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IF 1.566
Junda Wu,Jia Gao,Zhiqing Hou,Wendong Xing,Jiangdong Dai,Yongsheng Yan,Yilin Wu
Enoxacin, as the broad-spectrum antibacterial activity antibiotics, has been widely used in treatment of bacterial diseases in animals and humans around the world. The extensive use of enoxacin in healthcare has also caused increasingly serious environmental risk as a matter of course. In this work, enoxacin imprinted poly (vinylidene fluoride) (PVDF) composite membranes (EIPCMs) were developed by strategy of surface grafting beta-cyclodextrin ( β -CD) for the improved hydrophilic and antifouling properties of the basal membrane. PVDF membrane was prepared by phase inversion method, and β -CD was grafted onto the surface after hydroxyl groups modification. The effects of adding amount of β -CD on performance of basal membranes were systematically examined. Further, the specific recognition sites were fabricated via sol–gel surface imprinting method using 3-aminopropyltriethoxysilane (APTES) and tetraethoxysilane (TEOS) as functional monomer and cross-linker, respectively. The specific adsorption and permeation experiments were investigated and explored the separation performance and mechanism of EIPCM. The results indicated that the as-prepared EIPCMs not only exhibited highly favorable features and high rebinding strength (31.25 mg g − 1 ) , but also possessed superior selective performance toward enoxacin (imprinted factor β is 3.15). Furthermore, in order to investigate the practical applications of EIPCMs, the adsorption experiments were carried out using environmental sewage. The work developed here shows great potential for further applications in selective recognition and separation antibiotics pollution from the environment.
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JOURNAL OF ELECTROANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY
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2021
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Jing-He Yang,Xiuhong Xu,Miaomiao Chen,Duo Yang,Hongye Lu,Yazhou Sun,Can Shao,Qiangqiang Song,Jie Zhang,Li Gao,Yatao Zhang
The establishment of non-noble metal electrocatalysts with controllable morphology is crucial significance for overall water splitting. Ni-based catalyst is perceived as a promising electrocatalyst due to its excellent oxygen evolution reaction (OER) and hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) performance. Herein, β-Ni(OH) 2 /NF is designed for OER and HER, using a facile hydrothermal etching method. The separation rate of hydroxide is controlled by the copper-ammonium complexation reaction, and the different amounts of oleic acid is added as a protective agent to regulate the surface morphology of the Ni foam. The ingenious combination of several reactants allows us to synthesize different morphology catalysts, and get the best performance from them. The catalyst exhibits superior OER and HER electrocatalytic performance, which overpotential is 329 mV during the OER and 170 mV for the HER at 50 mA cm −2 . Meanwhile, it demonstrates small Tafel slopes of 51 mV dec −1 for HER and 40 mV dec −1 for OER in 1.0 M KOH solution. Moreover, the catalyst presents a stable activity with no significant attenuation after 24 h OER and HER reaction. The hydrothermal etching method is expected to offer an adjustable synthetic strategy for the reasonable design of highly efficient, durable and non-noble-metal bifunction catalysts.
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CERAMICS INTERNATIONAL
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2020
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Weide Wang,Dongxu Yao,Hanqin Liang,Yongfeng Xia,Kaihui Zuo,Jinwei Yin,Yu-Ping Zeng
The effect of the GdH 2 on the shrinkage behavior, microstructure, thermal conductivity , and flexural strength was investigated. The pre-sintering enables the elimination of native SiO 2 and the simultaneous formation of Gd 2 O 3 . The N/O ratio in the liquid phase was increased because of the increasing Gd 2 O 3 /SiO 2 ratio, resulting in the restricted shrinkage during gas pressure sintering. The high N/O ratio in the liquid phase benefits not only the nucleation and growth of β-Si 3 N 4 but also the removal of lattice oxygen, leading to the increase of thermal conductivity . Although the replacement of Gd 2 O 3 by GdH 2 leads to enhanced flexural strength at low temperature, it tends to reduce the flexural strength at high temperature. This variation related largely to the exaggerated bimodal microstructure. This work signifies that GdH 2 is an effective sintering additive for obtaining Si 3 N 4 ceramics with both high flexural strength and high thermal conductivity.
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Soft Matter
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2020
·Vol. 16
·期 46
·10558-10566
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Qiaofeng Gao,Jing Hu,Jianmin Shi,Wenwei Wu,Dereje Kebebew Debeli,Pengju Pan,Guorong Shan
A graphene oxide/poly(N-isopropylacrylamide-co-β-cyclodextrin) (GO/poly(NIPAM-co-β-CD)) hydrogel has been synthesized through host–guest interaction between β-cyclodextrin (β-CD) and the isopropyl group of N-isopropylacrylamide (NIPAM). The product exhibits rapid responses to the stimuli of temperature and near-infrared (NIR) irradiation, self-healing properties, and excellent mechanical properties. The host–guest interaction serves as the main physical cross-linker, while a hydrogen bond between the hydroxyl group of β-CD, GO sheets and amide group of NIPAM acts as a secondary cross-linker. The volume phase transition temperature and NIR response rate of such a hydrogel are controlled by its contents of β-CD and GO. The obtained hydrogels showing excellent properties might be applied in remote contactless control devices in advanced smart technologies. Based on the excellent characteristics of the hydrogels, remote light-controlled switches have been designed, and more applications will be explored, such as intelligent light-controlled drivers and soft robots.
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