INTERNATIONAL BIODETERIORATION & BIODEGRADATION
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2016
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Chuanhua Wang,Lingfeng Gu,Xiaoyan Liu,Shimei Ge,Tingru Chen,Xiaoxin Hu
The objectives of this study were to evaluate the effects of plant and immobilized microbes on pyrene removal and soil microbial functional diversity of co-contaminated soil. The results indicated that the dissipation ratios of pyrene in the soil with plant (P), soil with immobilized microbes (IM) and soil with both of them(PIM) were 51.5 ± 0.69%, 55.2 ± 3.8%, 63.2 ± 1.29% respectively, and were higher than CK (31.2 ± 1.5%) with neither of them. Soil microbial functional diversity was assessed by the community-level physiological profiles (CLPP) using Biolog Eco-plates. The Biolog results revealed that the metabolic intensity in the rhizospheric soil marked P-R and PIM-R was significantly higher than that of non-rhizospheric soil and the CK during the incubation period . A similar variation in the diversity indexes (Shannon, Simpson and McIntosh) was observed. Principal component analysis (PCA) of the distribution of carbon substrate utilization for all treatments suggests that the microbial community catabolic diversity is different. Among the carbon utilization profile, carbohydrates were the main carbon source of the sample soil and IM increased the potential utilization of two substrate groups (phenols and carbohydrates) more strongly than that of the other groups.
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JOURNAL OF CHROMATOGRAPHY A
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2016
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IF 3.926
Li-Shun Zhang,Pei-Yao Du,Wen Gu,Qing-Li Zhao,Yan-Ping Huang,Zhao-Sheng Liu
A new lanthanide metal-organic frameworks NKU-1 have successfully incorporated into poly (BMA- co -EDMA) monolith and evaluated by capillary electrochromatography (CEC). Lanthanide metal-organic frameworks [Eu 2 (ABTC) 1.5 (H 2 O) 3 (DMA)] (NKU-1) were synthesized by self-assembly of Eu(III) ions and 3,3′,5,5′-azo benzene tetracarboxylic acid ligands have been fabricated into poly(BMA- co -EDMA) monoliths. 1-Butyl-3-methylimidazolium tetrafluoroborate and N , N -dimethylformamide were developed as binary porogen obtaining homogeneous dispersibility for NKU-1 and high permeability for monolithic column. The successful incorporation of NKU-1 into poly(BMA- co -EDMA) was confirmed and characterized by FT-IR spectra, scanning electron microscopy, X-ray diffraction, energy dispersive spectrometer area scanning, and transmission electron microscopy. Separation ability of the NKU-1-poly (BMA- co -EDMA) monoliths was demonstrated by separating four groups of analytes in CEC, including alkylbenzenes, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon, aniline series and naphthyl substitutes. Compared with bare monolithic (column efficiency of 100,000 plates/m), the NKU-1-poly (BMA- co -EDMA) monoliths have displayed greater column efficiency (maximum 210,000 plates/m) and higher permeability, as well as less peak tailing. The results showed that the NKU-1-poly (BMA- co -EDMA) monoliths are promising stationary phases for CEC separations.
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OPTICS EXPRESS
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2016
·Vol. 24
·期 14
·A1148
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IF 3.148
Ruifang Yang,Nanjing Zhao,Xue Xiao,Gaofang Yin,Shaohui Yu,Jianguo Liu,Wenqing Liu
It is still difficult to determine the concentrations of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons accurately in natural water by fluorescence technique because of their low solubility, different fluorescent intensity, and the complex interferents from water environments. In this work, three-way fluorescence spectra combined with three methods including three-way parallel factor analysis, multi-way partial least square with residual bilinearization and unfolded partial least square with residual bilinearization were used to predict the concentrations of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons at the μg L−1 level in reservoir and river water, respectively. The prediction abilities of these methods on different analytes were evaluated by validation sets. The results demonstrate that unfolded partial least square with residual bilinearization yields the optimal results with relative error less than or equal to 6% for phenanthrene, pyrene, anthracene and fluorene, and 35% for acenaphthene and fluoranthene in different water backgrounds.
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ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces
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2017
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IF 7.504
Ye Tian,Xiaoshuang Wei,Zhi Jian Wang,Pengju Pan,Fangyuan Li,Daishun Ling,Zi Liang Wu,Qiang Zheng
We report a facile approach to prepare ultrathin physical hydrogel films based on the Marangoni effect, which drives an ethanol solution of poly(stearyl acrylate-co-acrylic acid) (P(SA-co-AAc)) to rapidly spread on the water surface. The subsequent solvent exchange leads to sol–gel transition, where the long alkyl chains of SA units segregate to form physical cross-linking junctions. The resultant disk-shaped single-network (SN) gel films are uniform with tunable thickness (40–80 μm) and diameter (5–12 cm) and possess robust mechanical properties with tensile breaking stress, σb, and breaking strain, εb, being 0.3–1.1 MPa and 30–290%, respectively. The mechanical properties of SN gel films can be further improved by introducing ductile poly(N-isopropylacrylamide) (PNIPAm) into the preformed gel matrix, which forms strong hydrogen bonds with the first network. The obtained physical double-network (DN) hydrogel films are transparent and show excellent mechanical performances with σb of 3–5 MPa and εb of 100–500%. Due to the ultrathin thickness of gel films and response of PNIPAm to saline solutions, the tough DN gel films exhibit fast response (≤60 s) and large stroke force (0.5 MPa) after switching the environment from water bath to saline solution, making them an ideal material to design artificial muscles, soft actuators, and chemomechanical devices.
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CHEMOSPHERE
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2017
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Yong Li,Ling Long,Jing Ge,Li-xuan Yang,Jin-jin Cheng,Ling-xiang Sun,Changying Lu,Xiang-yang Yu
Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) accumulated in agricultural soils are likely to threaten human health and ecosystem though the food chain, therefore, it is worth to pay more attention to soil contamination by PAHs. In this study, the presence, distribution and risk assessment of 16 priority PAHs in rice-wheat continuous cropping soils close to industrial parks of Suzhou were firstly investigated. The concentrations of the total PAHs ranged from 125.99 ng/g to 796.65 ng/g with an average of 352.94 ng/g. Phenanthrene (PHE), fluoranthene (FLT), benzo [a] anthracene (BaA) and pyrene (PYR) were the major PAHs in those soil samples. The highest level of PAHs was detected in the soils around Chemical plant and Steelworks, followed by Printed wire board, Electroplate Factory and Paper mill. The composition of PAHs in the soils around Chemical plant was dominated by 3-ring PAHs, however, the predominant compounds were 4, 5-ring PAHs in the soils around other four factories. Meanwhile, the concentration of the total PAHs in the soils close to the factories showed a higher level of PAHs in November (during rice harvest) than that in June (during wheat harvest). Different with other rings of PAHs, 3-ring PAHs in the soils around Chemical plant and Steelworks had a higher concentration in June. The results of principal component analysis and isomeric ratio analysis suggested that PAHs in the studied areas mainly originated from biomass, coal and petroleum combustion. The risk assessment indicated that higher carcinogenic risk was found in those sites closer to the industrial park.
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RSC Advances
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2017
·Vol. 7
·期 48
·30250-30261
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IF 3.108
Xin Liu,Yuebin Li,Jian He,Tingting Zhao,Changmei Chen,Haoshuang Gu,Xingguo Wang
A novel anticancer drug PFPSNT, paclitaxel (PTX)-loaded polymeric F127/P123 silica nanocapsules conjugated with TRAIL (tumor necrosis factor (TNF)-related apoptosis-inducing ligand), was designed and synthesized. Transmission electron microscopy (TEM), dynamic light scattering (DLS), UV-vis absorption and particle size analysis revealed that the synthesized PFPSNT was a spherical particle with a size of 24 nm and excellent colloidal stability. Drug loading efficiency (DL%) and encapsulation ratio (ER%) were 0.39% and 26.5%, and its cumulative release profile was linear. In vitro study showed that PFPSNT had marked cytotoxic and apoptotic activities towards HepG2 (liver cancer cell line) and CaSki (cervical cell line) cells with the IC50 values of 921.07 ng mL−1 and 236.24 ng mL−1, respectively. The antitumor efficacy of PFPSNT was evaluated by using a HepG2-xenografted BALB/c nu/nu mice model. In vivo study showed PFPSNT markedly inhibited HepG2 hepatocellular carcinoma, and its antitumor efficacy was more superior than those of TRAIL, PTX or PTX/F127/P123 silica nanocapsules. Our studies provided a novel strategy to synthesize anticancer nanodrugs with mutiple functions, and demonstrated that PFPSNT was a very effective anticancer drug. This novel nanodrug should be a promising drug for targeted cancer therapy to treat complex cancers.
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CHEMICAL ENGINEERING JOURNAL
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2017
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Na Wen,Shaoyu Lü,Chunmei Gao,Xiubin Xu,Xiao Bai,Can Wu,Piao Ning,Mingzhu Liu
Both blood stability and glucose responsiveness for carriers are the most important issues in insulin controlled release studies. However, few reports focus on reducing macrophage response performance for drug carriers themselves. Zwitterionic self-assembled micelles mitigated recognition by immune cell has evolved to address this limitation. In this work, novel zwitterionic dialdehyde starch-based micelles, sulfobetaine (SB) as the hydrophilic shell, and 3-aminophenylboronic acid (APBA) as glucose-responsive groups to the dialdehyde starch (DAS) backbones (SB-DAS-APBA) with glucose-responsive behavior were developed. Insulin release from the nanocarriers is sensitive to the different concentration of the glucose, rapidly at the condition of 3 mg/mL of glucose at pH 7.4. Methyl thiazolyl tetrazoliumviability (MTT) assay confirmed that zwitterion micelles were cytobiocompatible and low cytotoxic activity with A549 cells. For comparison, PEGylation micelles, monomethyl ether (mPEG) as the hydrophilic shell, and APBA as glucose-responsive groups to the DAS backbones (mPEG-DAS-APBA), were also synthesized. Confocal laser scanning microscopy (CLSM) and flow cytometry results displayed that PEGylation and zwitterion coating micelles have different recognition processes in contact with macrophages. After 4 h, doxorubicin (Dox) fluorescence of the Dox-loaded mPEG-DAS-APBA micelle groups were mostly located in nuclei. However, SB-DAS-APBA micelle groups were slightly detected in both nuclei and cytosol. In addition, the fluorescence signals of mPEG-DAS-APBA micelles showed enhanced trend than that of SB-DAS-APBA micelles in macrophage cells. These results suggest that, as drug carriers, zwitterionic self-assembled micelles SB-DAS-APBA not only possessed glucose-responsive insulin delivery property, but also reduced macrophage response performance.
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TALANTA
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2016
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IF 4.035
Li-Shun Zhang,Qing-Li Zhao,Xin-Xin Li,Xi-Xi Li,Yan-Ping Huang,Zhao-Sheng Liu
A hybrid monolith incorporated with mesoporous molecular sieve MCM-41 of uniform pore structure and high surface area was prepared with binary green porogens in the first time. With a mixture of room temperature ionic liquids and deep eutectic solvents as porogens, MCM-41 was modified with 3-(trimethoxysilyl) propyl methacrylate (γ-MPS) and the resulting MCM-41-MPS was incorporated into poly (BMA-co-EDMA) monoliths covalently. Because of good dispersibility of MCM-41-MPS in the green solvent-based polymerization system, high permeability and homogeneity for the resultant hybrid monolithic columns was achieved. The MCM-41-MPS grafted monolith was characterized by scanning electron microscopy, energy dispersive spectrometer area scanning, transmission electron microscopy, FT-IR spectra and nitrogen adsorption tests. Chromatographic performance of MCM-41-MPS grafted monolith was characterized by separating small molecules in capillary electrochromatography , including phenol series, naphthyl substitutes, aniline series and alkyl benzenes. The maximum column efficiency of MCM-41-MPS grafted monolith reached 209,000 plates/m, which was twice higher than the corresponding MCM-41-MPS free monolith. Moreover, successful separation of non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons demonstrated the capacity in broad-spectrum application of the MCM-41-MPS incorporated monolith. The results indicated that green synthesis using room temperature ionic liquid and deep eutectic solvents is an effective method to prepare molecular sieve-incorporated monolithic column.
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Materials Science & Engineering C-Materials for Biological Applications
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2016
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Kai Chen,Jiacheng Li,Yuhong Feng,Furui He,Qingfeng Zhou,Dunchao Xiao,Yiyuan Tang
Amphiphilic polymers that form self-assembled structures in aqueous media have been investigated and used for the diagnosis and therapy of various diseases, including cancer. In our work, a series of environment-sensitive hydrophobic alginates (Ugi-Alg) with various weight-average molecular mass values (Mw ~ 6.7 × 10 5 –6.7 × 10 4 g/mol) were synthesized via Ugi reaction. The structure of Ugi-Alg was characterized by 1 HNMR spectrometer. The electrostatic self-assembly of different molecular weight (Mw) and composition (M/G ratio) of Ugi-Alg chain under various Na + concentrations, was investigated by dynamic light scattering, electron spin resonance experiments, and transmission electron microscopy. Result showed that by comparing to other Ugi-Alg, the mid-Mw Ugi-Alg (Mw ~ 2.8 × 10 5 g/mol) could form stable and homogeneous nanoparticles in low Na + concentration solution. However, G/M values exerted no obvious effect on nanoparticles structure. Additionally, steady-shear flow, thixotropy and dynamical viscoelasticity tests were performed to characterize the rheological behavior of Ugi-Alg aqueous solutions as influenced by Mw and M/G ratio. All of the samples exhibited a non-Newtonian shear-thinning behavior above a critical shear rate ( γ ̇ c 2 ). The greater the Mw, the more sensitive the temperature-dependent behavior will be. The upward-downward rheograms showed that all of the systems evaluated in this study displayed a hysteresis loop, indicating a strong thixotropic behavior, and the thixotropic of mid-Mw Ugi-Alg was the strongest. The dynamical viscoelastic properties were characterized by oscillatory frequency sweep, revealing the gel-like viscoelastic behavior of mid-low Ugi-Alg and the fluid-like viscoelastic behavior of high-Mw Ugi-Alg.
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International Journal of Nanomedicine
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2016
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Wenhui Pan,Mengyao Qin,Guoguang Zhang,Yueming Long,Wenyi Ruan,Jingtong Pan,Zushuai Wu,Tao Wan,Chuanbin Wu,Yuehong Xu
Tacrolimus (FK506), an effective immunosuppressant for treating inflammatory skin diseases, hardly penetrates into and through the skin owing to its high hydrophobicity and molecular weight. The aim of this study was to develop a hybrid system based on nicotinamide (NIC) and nanoparticles (NPs) encapsulating FK506, such as FK506–NPs–NIC, for facilitating percutaneous delivery, which exploited virtues of both NIC and NPs to obtain the synergetic effect. Solubility and percutaneous permeation studies were carried out. The results showed that NIC could increase the solubility and permeability of FK506 and that 20% (w/v) NIC presented higher FK506 permeability and was thus chosen as the hydrotropic solution to solubilize FK506 and prepare FK506–NPs–NIC. Hyaluronic acid (HA) was chemically conjugated with cholesterol (Chol) to obtain amphiphilic conjugate of HA–Chol, which self-assembled NPs in 20% NIC solution containing FK506. The particle size, zeta potential, and morphology of NPs were characterized. The encapsulation efficiency and in vitro percutaneous permeation of NPs were evaluated in the presence and absence of NIC. The results demonstrated that hydrotropic solubilizing FK506 was readily encapsulated into NPs with a higher encapsulation efficiency of 79.2%±4.2%, and the combination of NPs with NIC exhibited a significantly synergistic effect on FK506 deposition within the skin (2.39±0.53 μg/cm2) and penetration through the skin (13.38±2.26 μg/cm2). The effect of the combination of NPs with NIC on drug permeation was further visualized by confocal laser scanning microscope through in vivo permeation studies, and the results confirmed that NPs–NIC synergistically enhanced the permeation of the drug into the skin. The cellular uptake performed in HaCaT cells presented a promoting effect of NPs on cellular uptake. These overall results demonstrated that HA–Chol–NPs–NIC can synergistically improve the percutaneous delivery of FK506, and it is a novel potential strategy based on a nano-sized carrier for FK506 to treat skin diseases.
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ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND POLLUTION RESEARCH
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2017
·Vol. 24
·期 23
·19194-19200
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IF 2.741
Chen Tingru,Liu Xiaoyan,Zhang Xinying,Hu Xiaoxin,Cao Liya
To understand the accumulation and uptake of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) and heavy metals by plants is an important part of the assessment of phytoremediation for PAHs and heavy metals co-contaminated soil. This study was an investigation of the accumulation and uptake of pyrene and lead (Pb) by Scirpus triqueter under the condition of alkyl polyglucoside (APG) and nitrilotriacetic acid (NTA) combined application. The results indicated that the accumulation of Pb by S. triqueter was significantly improved by NTA and APG addition into the soil. The pyrene accumulation in plant was also increased after application of APG when compared to the control treatment. However, the pyrene accumulation was decreased when APG was applied together with NTA. SEM and TEM images of root surface suggested that more Pb in the soil transferred to the plant by combined application of APG and NTA. More importantly, TEM images of xylem cells of S.triqueter root showed that permeability of cell membrane was improved by application of APG.
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MICROCHIMICA ACTA
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2017
·Vol. 184
·期 7
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IF 4.58
Wu Tong,Wang Juntao,Liang Weiqian,Zang Xiaohuan,Wang Chun,Wu Qiuhua,Wang Zhi
The authors describe a three-dimensional single layer graphitic carbon nitride-modified graphene composite (g-C 3 N 4 @G) deposited on a stainless steel wire by a sol-gel technique. The coated fiber was applied to direct immersion solid-phase microextraction of trace levels of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) from cosmetics samples prior to their determination by gas chromatography with mass spectrometry (GC-MS). Due to π stacking interaction and hydrophobic interaction between the g-C 3 N 4 @G coating and the analytes (naphthalene, acenaphthene, fluorene, phenanthrene, fluoranthene and pyrene), the fiber displays an excellent adsorption capability for the analytes. Under optimized conditions, the method has a wide linear range, low LODs (from 1.0 to 2.0 ng L −1 ), good repeatability and high recoveries. It was successfully applied to the determination of PAHs in cosmetics. The g-C 3 N 4 @G fiber also exhibited good durability.
Schematic of a three-dimensional single layer graphitic carbon nitride-modified graphene composite (g-C 3 N 4 @G) that was coated onto a stainless steel wire for the direct-immersion solid phase microextraction of trace levels of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons prior to gas chromatography-mass spectrometric detection.
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