INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL MACROMOLECULES
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2022
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Xuecui Song,Jing Guo,Yuanfa Liu,Feng Li,Qiang Yang,Fucheng Guan,Chunqiu Di
Sodium alginate/krill protein/polyacrylamide (SA/AKP/PAM) hydrogel with “covalent bond―ion complex―hydrogen bond” multi-network structure was prepared by covalent cross-linking and complexion ion crosslinking using SA, AKP, and acrylamide (AM) as raw materials. The effects of ion species (Fe 3+ , Ba 2+ , Sr 2+ , Ca 2+ , and Zn 2+ ) on the structure, morphology, and properties of multi-network hydrogels were studied in detail. The results showed that the mechanical strength of ionic cross-linked hydrogels increased significantly. The compressive strength of Fe 3+ cross-linked hydrogels was 5.56 MPa, 16.13 times that of non-ionic crosslinked hydrogels. The results of ionic conductivity measurements showed that hydrogels had significant ionic conductivity and were sensitive to external forces. Interestingly, the hydrogel can be used as a capacitive pen in mobile phone writing, painting and dialing numbers. Moreover, ionic cross-linked hydrogels had a unique three-dimensional porous structure with gradient distribution, excellent shape memory effect, and good biocompatibility. Fe 3+ , Ba 2+ , Sr 2+ , and Ca 2+ cross-linked hydrogels were nontoxic and conducive to the adhesion and growth of Schwann cells. These excellent properties of ionic cross-linked SA/AKP/PAM hydrogels have broad applications prospects in flexible electronic devices, sensors, soft electronic skins, and tissue engineering.
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POSTHARVEST BIOLOGY AND TECHNOLOGY
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2023
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IF 7
Zhanpeng Liu,Miao Shao,Shahid Ahmed Junejo,Bin Zhang,Hongxin Jiang,Xiong Fu,Qiang Huang
A carrier of storing and releasing ethylene was prepared using V-type starch (VS) or cross-linked VS as core and sodium alginate (SA) as shell. Fourier Transform InfraRed spectra revealed that the VS was successfully cross-linked and its stability in water was enhanced. Scanning electron microscopy (SEM) images confirmed that ethylene was encapsulated into VS or cross-linked VS and then coated with SA-Ca 2+ matrix to form close-knit beads. The SA beads contained 0.48–0.67 mol ethylene per Kg starch and maintained a very slow ethylene-releasing rate at 4 °C for 7 d in a dry storage condition. SA shell absorbed the water from the air and swelled after being exposed to an environment with certain humidity, triggering a stable release of ethylene within 7 h. In the ripening process, banana treated with 30 mg ethylene carriers in a 2.5 L container had a delayed maturation compared to the pure ethylene treatment along, and finally, ripening effect of carriers was equal to 10 nmol L −1 ethylene gas. This carrier can accomplish stability gas storage in dry condition, precisely controlled and targeted applications of ethylene under humidity ambience for agricultural applications.
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INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL MACROMOLECULES
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2023
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IF 8.2
Zihao Feng,Wei Zhao,Liuping Jin,Jiarong Zhang,Bailiang Xue,Yonghao Ni
Natural polysaccharides show enviable advantages for preparation of sustainable hybrid materials. However, in most cases, complex chemical modifications of natural polysaccharides are required, which not only causes changes of the inherent properties of polysaccharides, but also increases the manufacturing costs of the final materials. Therefore, it is highly desired to develop efficient and low-cost ways to access polysaccharides-containing hybrid materials. In this work, we report the environmentally friendly preparation of a new kind of polysaccharide-based materials, called polysaccharide-vitrimer hybrid materials, for the first time. The vitrimer synthesis and hybridization with polysaccharides can be achieved via a convenient one-pot method in absence of solvent and catalyst. In addition, time-consuming and labor-intensive physical/chemical modifications of natural polysaccharides are completely avoided. The resultant hybrid materials show good mechanical performance (tensile toughness is up to 13.7 MJ/m 3 ), high thermal stability (T d,max is up to 457 °C), fast self-healing ability (self-healing efficiency is up to 99 % within 20s at 80 °C) and excellent reprocessability and recyclability (at least three cycles). Especially, conductive polysaccharide-vitrimer hybrid materials could be readily prepared from the resultant materials, exhibiting novel applications as flexible sensors and electromagnetic shielding materials (the EMI SE is up to 24.93 dB).
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INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL MACROMOLECULES
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2026
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IF 8.7
Jia Ding,Nan Wang,Xiao-kun Ouyang,Junhong Ling
Ulcerative colitis (UC) is associated with epithelial barrier disruption, oxidative stress, inflammation, and gut microbiota dysbiosis. Oral colon-localized delivery remains challenging because therapeutic cargos must resist gastric exposure, avoid premature release, be retained at inflamed colonic sites, and respond to pathological microenvironments. Herein, a pH/reactive oxygen species (ROS) dual-responsive calcium alginate microalgal hydrogel, denoted SP@GaTa@ALG (SGA), was developed for localized UC therapy. Gallium-tannic acid nanoparticles (GaTa NPs) were loaded onto Spirulina (SP) and encapsulated within a Ca 2+ -crosslinked alginate matrix. The calcium alginate network provided gastric protection and pH-dependent control over Ga 3+ diffusion, while GaTa enabled ROS-responsive Ga 3+ release and antioxidant activity. In vitro , SGA scavenged free radicals, reduced intracellular ROS accumulation, protected epithelial cells against H 2 O 2 -induced injury, preserved mitochondrial membrane potential, and promoted an anti-inflammatory-like macrophage phenotype. After oral administration, SGA showed prolonged gastrointestinal retention and enhanced colonic localization compared with non-encapsulated SP@GaTa (SG). In dextran sulfate sodium (DSS)-induced colitis mice, SGA alleviated body-weight loss, reduced disease activity, restored colon length, improved zonula occludens-1 (ZO-1) and Occludin expression, suppressed inflammatory mediators, and was associated with gut microbiota remodeling. These findings support SGA as a traceable, carbohydrate-polymer-based oral platform for inflammation-responsive UC intervention.
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INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL MACROMOLECULES
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2023
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IF 8.2
Kuiyou Wang,Jialu Ni,Xueying Tian,Siyuan Xiang,Hongliang Li,Wenbo Shang,Bo Liu,Mingqian Tan,Wentao Su
Adequate amounts of live probiotics reaching the gut are necessary to maintain host health. However, the harsh environment during processing, the low pH of human gastric acid, and the high concentration of bile salts in the gut can significantly reduce survivability of probiotics. In this work, we propose a simple Pickering emulsion gels strategy to encapsulate Lactobacillus plantarum Lp90 into oil droplets filled in calcium alginate gels to improve its viability under pasteurization and gastrointestinal conditions. The emulsion gels were stabilized by the soluble complexes of salmon by-product protein (SP) and sodium alginate (ALG), and the aqueous phase was solidified by the addition of calcium. The interaction between SP and ALG and the effect of ALG concentration on emulsifying ability and emulsion stability were studied. The results from optical imaging , nuclear magnetic resonance, and rheological properties showed that the stability and viscosity of the emulsions gradually increased with the increased ALG concentration, while the droplet size of the emulsions and the content of free water in the system decreased significantly. Especially when the concentration of ALG was 1 %, the emulsion system was stable under the environment of high temperature and high ionic strength , and the water holding capacity was the highest. Through pasteurization and gastrointestinal digestion experiments, it was found that the survival rate of probiotics encapsulated in emulsion gels was significantly higher than that encapsulated in emulsions or hydrogels, which benefited from the dual action of oil droplets and calcium alginate gels network. These results provide a new strategy for the processing of probiotics and the high-value utilization of marine fish by-products.
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SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT
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2023
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IF 9.8
Koukou Tao,Boqiang Gao,Na Li,Mayyada M.H. El-Sayed,Tamer Shoeib,Hu Yang
In this work, a novel double-network composite hydrogel (SA/TA), composed of sodium alginate (SA) and tannic acid (TA), was designed and fabricated by a successive cross-linking method using Ti(IV) and Ca(II) as crosslinkers. SA/TA exhibited reinforced mechanical strength and anti-swelling properties because of the double-network structure. SA/TA was used as an adsorbent for removal of a popular antiviral drug, chloroquine phosphate (CQ), in water. The adsorption performance of SA/TA was systematically investigated, to study various effects including those of TA mass content, solution pH, adsorption time, and initial CQ concentration. Adsorption was also examined in presence of inorganic and organic coexisting substances commonly found in wastewater, and under different actual water samples. Batch experimental results indicated that SA/TA could maintain higher and more stable CQ uptakes within a wide solution pH range from 3.0 to 10.0, compared to its precursor, SA hydrogel, owing to the addition of TA-Ti(IV) coordination network. The maximum experimental CQ uptake exhibited by the 1:1 (by wt) SA/TA (SA/TA2) was as high as 0.699 mmol/g at the initial pH of 9.0. A high concentration of coexisting NaCl evidently reduced the CQ uptakes of SA/TA2 due to the electrostatic shielding effect, moreover, divalent cations including Ca(II) and Mg(II) also inhibited the adsorption of CQ due to competitive adsorption. However, humic acid had little effect on this adsorption. Considering the apparent adsorption performance, the aforementioned effects of various factors and the spectroscopic characterizations, multi-interactions are suggested for adsorption including chelation, electrostatic interactions, π-π electron donor-acceptor interaction and hydrogen bonding. SA/TA showed a slight loss in adsorption capacity toward CQ and sustained physicochemical structural stability, even after six adsorption–desorption cycles. In addition to CQ, SA/TA could be efficiently used for adsorption of two other antivirus drugs, namely, hydroxychloroquine sulfate and oseltamivir phosphate. This work provides an effective strategy for the design and fabrication of novel adsorbents that can effectively adsorb antiviral drugs over a wide pH range.
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INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL MACROMOLECULES
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2023
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IF 8.2
Xiaoting Zhang,Chenping Gao,Rong Wang,Aaron Albert Aryee,Runping Han
A composite (ZS–UiO–66–NH 2 ) zirconium crosslinked sodium alginate gel beads (ZS)–metal–organic skeleton (UiO–66–NH 2 ) were prepared in this study through in–situ growth under simple, green and mild conditions for removal of the salicylic acid (SA) and sulfosalicylic acid (SSA) from water. The physicochemical properties of ZS–UiO–66–NH 2 were characterized using various analytical methods. The influencing factors in the adsorption process including pH of solution, amount of adsorbent, coexisting ions, adsorption time, reaction temperature and equilibrium concentration of SA/SSA were performed in batch adsorption. The experimental results indicated that ZS–UiO–66–NH 2 had high stability and could achieve efficient adsorption of SA/SSA in broad pH range (2–9) and salinity (0–0.2 mol·L −1 ). SA and SSA adsorbed on the composite at 293 K reached high values of 193 and 167 mg·g −1 from Langmuir model, respectively. Kinetic and isotherm studies demonstrated that the adsorption processes were mainly multilayer heterogeneous chemisorption. Thermodynamic data manifested that the two processes were exothermic and spontaneous with increasing entropy. ZS–UiO–66–NH 2 can effectively remove SA/SSA from simulated wastewater under different pH and can be reused after elution with a NaHCO 3 solution (5 mmol·L −1 ). The ZS–UiO–66–NH 2 composite has great potential for removing SA/SSA from actual water bodies.
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INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL MACROMOLECULES
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2023
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IF 8.2
Saleem Raza,Ehsan Ghasali,Asif Hayat,Pengfei Zhang,Yasin Orooji,Hongjun Lin
Clean and safe water resources are essential for environmental safety and human health. Hydrogels and biomass polymers have attracted considerable attention in recent years, considering their nontoxicity, controllable performance, and high adsorption capacity. The interpenetrating network described here is a combination of a biomass polymer and a hydrogel adsorbent was established, the biomass polymer microspheres were first prepared with the combination of biomass monomer trans-anethole and maleic anhydride copolymer. A simple, environmentally friendly, and facile method of incorporating biomass polymer into sodium alginate biopolymer was developed by introducing the cross-linking agents calcium chloride and glutaraldehyde into the biomass polymer. Furthermore, the biomass polymer sodium alginate hydrogel (BP@SA/H) was characterized by FTIR, XPS, SEM, and XRD. In order to test materials' performance, the removal of pollutants and the adsorption study were also investigated after and before adsorption toward metals and dyes in water. We examined the factors influencing the materials, adsorption capability, such as initial concentration, time, absorbent amount, and pH. Moreover, the maximum adsorption values for Pb +2 and Cd +2 were 734.9 and 722 mg/g. While the adsorption toward RhB dye are 745 mg/g. In addition, the adsorption results were investigated using kinetic and isothermal models, demonstrating that biomass polymer hydrogel adsorption is chemisorption. Therefore, the as-developed biomass polymer sodium alginate hydrogel (BP@SA/H) is an exceptional multifunctional material that can be used to remove hazardous pollutants from wastewater.
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INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL MACROMOLECULES
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2021
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IF 6.953
Ruonan Sun,Junxiang Zhu,Hao Wu,Shiqing Wang,Wenxiang Li,Qingjie Sun
In this work, 2,2,6,6-tetramethylpiperidine-1-oxyl-oxidized cellulose nanocrystals (TOCNs) were loaded into sodium alginate/chitosan multilayer film as nanofillers to investigate the modulation of the surface charge density of TOCNs on the film properties. First, the surface charge density of TOCNs was controlled by adjusting the carboxyl content and morphological size by varying the oxidant dosage. After oxidation , TOCN with higher surface charge density was observed to display a higher crystallinity, a more open internal structure, a better dispersibility and a slightly weaker thermal stability . In addition, a 15-layer film composed of sodium alginate and chitosan, called (SA/CH) 15 , was constructed by layer-by-layer assembly. Both in situ deposition monitoring and free-standing multilayer film formation indicated that TOCNs relied on strong electrostatic interactions and hydrogen bonding to achieve a compact and uniform interlayer and a thinner thickness of (SA/CH) 15 , which was more evident at a high surface charge density. The addition of TOCNs also enhanced the mechanical properties, thermal stability, hydrophobicity , and barrier properties of (SA/CH) 15 . In particular, the resulting sodium alginate/chitosan multilayer film exhibited an improved packaging performance when nanocomposite was performed using TOCN with a surface charge density of 3.22 ± 0.11 e nm −2 .
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Analytical Methods
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2021
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IF 2.896
Liang Wei,Xinlong Huang,Xianqian Zhang,Xiande Yang,Jing Yang,Feiyan Yan,Yu Ya
Three-dimensional hierarchically porous carbon (denoted as SA-900) with a microporous, mesoporous and macroporous structure was facilely fabricated via direct carbonization of sodium alginate. SA-900 was fully characterized by N2 adsorption–desorption, scanning electron microscopy (SEM), transmission electron microscopy (TEM), X-ray diffraction and Raman spectroscopy to confirm its structure. SA-900 was coated onto a glassy carbon electrode surface to construct an ultrasensitive electrochemical sensing platform (SA-900/GCE). Electrochemical behaviors of hydroquinone (HQ), catechol (CC) and resorcinol (RC) on the SA-900/GCE surface were investigated, and it was found that SA-900 possesses excellent electrocatalytic activity towards them. Experimental conditions including carbonization temperature, pH value, SA-900 concentration, accumulation potential and accumulation time were optimized for quantitative assay. Under optimized conditions, linear ranges for simultaneous determination of HQ, CC and RC are 0.05–1.50 μM, 0.05–1.50 μM and 0.50–15.00 μM, respectively. Detection limits for HQ, CC and RC are calculated to be 0.0183 μM, 0.0303 μM and 0.3193 μM (S/N = 3). The SA-900/GCE based electrochemical sensing platform is applied for determining HQ, CC and RC in lake water samples with satisfactory results.
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INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL MACROMOLECULES
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2020
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IF 5.162
Oudong Hu,Guoqi Chen,Jianfeng Gu,Jing Lu,Jin Zhang,Xi Zhang,Linxi Hou,Xiancai Jiang
Facile preparation of organohydrogel electrolyte integrated with good anti-freezing property, toughness, transparency, conductivity and thermoplasticity is important and still remains challenging. Novel conductive and tough poly(vinyl alcohol)/sodium alginate/glycerol (PVA/SA/Gly) composite organohydrogel electrolytes were obtained by a simple method in this paper. PVA and SA was firstly dissolved in a mixed solution of distilled water and glycerol and the PVA/SA/Gly organohydrogel was obtained by the freezing-thawing process, then PVA/SA/Gly organohydrogel was immersed into the saturated NaCl aqueous solution. During the soaking process NaCl would enter into the PVA/SA/Gly organohydrogel to increase the gel strength and conductivity. The PVA/SA/Gly organohydrogel electrolytes performed the high toughness with the tensile strength and elongation at break of 1.43 MPa and 558%, respectively. Moreover, the PVA/SA/Gly organohydrogel electrolytes behaved high transparency, anti-freezing property, conductivity and thermoplasticity due to the incorporation of glycerol. This paper provides a new preparation method for the high-performance organohydrogel electrolyte.
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CHEMICAL ENGINEERING JOURNAL
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2020
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IF 10.652
Shuxian Tang,Jueying Yang,Lizhi Lin,Kelin Peng,Yu Chen,Shaohua Jin,Weishang Yao
Chemical hydrogels have been extensively applied to the removal of heavy metal pollutants. However, most of chemical hydrogels inevitably contain toxic chemical crosslinker residues, which impose serious threats on the environment. Herein, a novel eco-friendly physically-crosslinked double-network hydrogel of chitosan/sodium alginate/calcium ion (CTS/SA/Ca 2+ PCDNH) was prepared by the combination of the semi-dissolution acidification sol–gel transition method with the internal gelation method. The PCDNH is formed via the physical crosslinking of sustainable biopolymers, which avoids the excessive use of toxic chemical reagents. In addition, the PCDNH exhibits significantly better mechanical properties than the single-network physical hydrogel crosslinked via electrostatic interactions, which overcomes the weak mechanical properties of physical hydrogels. The formation mechanism and structure of the hydrogel were determined by Fourier-transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR), 13 C solid state nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy ( 13 C-SSNMR) and scanning electron microscopy (SEM). The heavy metal ions adsorption mechanism was explored by X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) analysis. The adsorption kinetics, isotherms and thermodynamics were further studied to understand the adsorption mechanism. Our work has provided a new method for the fabrication of natural polymers-based eco-friendly, low-cost and robust physical hydrogels for the heavy metal ions removal.
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