Journal of Energy Chemistry
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2022
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Fuyan Kang,Cai Shi,Yeling Zhu,Malin Eqi,Junming Shi,Min Teng,Zhanhua Huang,Chuanling Si,Feng Jiang,Jinguang Hu
The global commitment to pivoting to sustainable energy and products calls for technology development to utilize solar energy for hydrogen (H 2 ) and value-added chemicals production by biomass photoreforming. Herein, a novel dual-functional marigold-like Zn x Cd 1 -x S homojunction has been the production of lactic acid with high-yield and H 2 with high-efficiency by selective glucose photoreforming. The optimized Zn 0.3 Cd 0.7 S exhibits outstanding H 2 generation (13.64 mmol h −1 g −1 ), glucose conversion (96.40%), and lactic acid yield (76.80%), over 272.80 and 19.21 times higher than that of bare ZnS (0.05 mmol h −1 g −1 ) and CdS (0.71 mmol h −1 g −1 ) in H 2 generation, respectively. The marigold-like morphology provides abundant active sites and sufficient substrates accessibility for the photocatalyst, while the specific role of the homojunction formed by hexagonal wurtzite (WZ) and cubic zinc blende (ZB) in photoreforming biomass has been demonstrated by density functional theory (DFT) calculations. Glucose is converted to lactic acid on the WZ surface of Zn 0.3 Cd 0.7 S via the photoactive species O 2 − , while the H 2 is evolved from protons (H + ) in H 2 O on the ZB surface of Zn 0.3 Cd 0.7 S. This work paves a promising road for the production of sustainable energy and products by integrating photocatalysis and biorefine.
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MICROCHEMICAL JOURNAL
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2022
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IF 5.304
Tianlu Zhao,Yangqing Li,Xuecheng Zhang,Haixia Lyu,Zenghong Xie
Here, the inner filter effect (IFE) was applied to construct a “turn off” mode up-conversion fluorescence and colorimetric dual-reading detection platform consisting of the chromogenic substance p-phenylenediamine (PPD) and NaYF 4 :Yb/Er@NaYF 4 core–shell up-conversion nanoparticles (UCNPs) for the detection of glucose and hydrogen peroxide (H 2 O 2 ) with high sensitivity and selectivity. In this strategy, hydrogen peroxide is produced in the process of glucose oxidation by catalyzing glucose oxidase (GOx). PPD is oxidized by H 2 O 2 under the action of horseradish peroxidase (HRP), resulting in the transformation into its oxidation product PPDox, whose absorption peak coincides with the emission peak of UCNP at 540 nm, which can significantly quench the fluorescence of UCNP. The quenching efficiency is related to PPDox production, so the relationship between the glucose content and the fluorescence changes of UCNP can be established to realize the sensitive detection of glucose. UCNPs modified by –COOH and the oxidation product of PPD were negatively charged, which increased the distance between donor and recipient due to electrostatic repulsion. It was not conducive to the occurrence of distance-dependent fluorescence resonance energy transfer (FRET), which was also verified by fluorescence lifetime test. Under the optimal experimental conditions, the linear ranges of hydrogen peroxide and glucose were 2.5 ∼ 50 and 5 ∼ 80 μmol/L with the detection limit (LOD) of 0.32 and 0.83 μmol/L, respectively, which were lower than of some reported approaches. Furthermore, the system could be applied to the detection of glucose in actual serum sample and the results were consistency of commercial glucose meters which indicated that the protocol was reliable and potential applications for clinical diagnosis.
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Foods
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2022
·Vol. 12
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Shiyao Zhang,Yue Xiao,Yongli Jiang,Tao Wang,Shengbao Cai,Xiaosong Hu,Junjie Yi
The effects of (fresh/aged) brine and (pool/jar) containers on the flavor characteristics of pickled chili peppers were investigated based on a multivariate analysis integrated with kinetics modeling. The results showed that the effect of brine on organic acid, sugar, and aroma was more dominant than that of containers, while free amino acids production was more affected by containers than brines. Chili pepper fermented using aged brine exhibited higher acidity (3.71–3.92) and sugar (7.92–8.51 mg/g) than that using fresh brine (respective 3.79–3.96; 6.50–9.25 mg/g). Besides, chili peppers fermented using pool containers showed higher free amino acids content (424.74–478.82 mg/100 g) than using a jar (128.77–242.90 mg/100 g), particularly with aged brine. As for aroma, the number of volatiles in aged brine was higher (88–96) than that in fresh brine (76–80). The contents of the esters, alcohols, and ketones were significantly higher in the aged brine samples than those in fresh brine (p< 0.05), while terpenes in chili pepper fermented using the pool were higher than those using the jar. In general, jar fermentation with aged brine contributed more flavor to pickled chili peppers than other procedures.Keywords:fermented chili pepper;flavor;brines;containers;multivariate data analysis
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INDUSTRIAL CROPS AND PRODUCTS
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2022
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IF 6.449
Miao Zuo,Qiang Niu,Yanzhong Zhu,Sijin Li,Wenlong Jia,Zheng Zhou,Xianhai Zeng,Lu Lin
This study prepared a series of biochar-based catalysts using different parts of Larix principis-rupprechtii as feedstock , to promote the 5-Hydroxymethylfurfural (HMF) synthesis from glucose and fructose. Sulfonated biochar showed high converting efficiency of fructose in both dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO) and aqueous-natural deep eutectic solvent (A-NADES) reaction systems, with HMF yield of 96.3% prepared from the pine needle-derived acidic catalyst under mild condition. Bifunctional acidic biochar catalysts containing both Lewis acid and Brønsted acid functional groups could effectively enhance the glucose conversion with 57.2% of the HMF yield obtained in A-NADES. After the detailed characterization of the biochar catalysts, the potential mechanism of the bifunctional catalyst for the synthesis of HMF by conversion of glucose and fructose was proposed. The possible promoting mechanism of carbohydrate conversion by A-NADES through intermolecular hydrogen bonding was also explored.
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EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF PHARMACOLOGY
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2022
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Yuzhen Lu,Cong Zhang,Yingying Song,Liang Chen,Xin Chen,Guohua Zheng,Yuan Yang,Peng Cao,Zhenpeng Qiu
Accumulating evidence suggests that de novo lipogenesis is a typical characteristic facilitating nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) progression. Gallic acid (GA) is a naturally occurring phenolic acid with metabolic disease-related clinical significance and preclinical benefits. This study aimed to evaluate the anti-steatotic potentials of GA in a fructose-induced NAFLD mouse model featuring a hepatic lipogenic phenotype. The results revealed that GA alleviated hepatic steatosis , oxidative stress , and inflammatory response in fructose-fed mice. Mechanistically, GA treatment restored AMP-activated protein kinase α (AMPKα) phosphorylation, resulting in downregulations of pro-lipogenic factors, including sterol regulatory element binding protein-1 (SREBP-1), fatty acid synthetase (FASN), and acetyl-CoA carboxylase (ACC), in hepatocytes of mice and in vitro . Furthermore, computational docking analysis indicated that GA could directly interact with AMPKα/β subunits to stabilize its activation. These results suggest that GA ameliorates fructose-induced hepatosteatosis by restraining hepatic lipogenesis via AMPK-dependent suppression of the SREBP-1/ACC/FASN cascade. Altogether, this study demonstrates that GA supplement may be a promising therapeutic strategy in NAFLD, especially in the subset with enhanced hepatic lipogenesis.
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NEW JOURNAL OF CHEMISTRY
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2022
·Vol. 47
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·2079-2085
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IF 3.925
Shuwen Li,Zhiguo Wang,Siyi Chen,Jialin Gu,Yanping Ma,Jiangang Jiang,Rui Zhang,Dan Zhang,Yiping Wang,He Wang
Based on the internal filtration effect between upconversion nanoparticles and square acid-FeIII(SA-FeIII), this method was developed for the rapid identification of total antioxidant capacity of different fruits without complex modification on the surface of upconversion nanoparticles. The near-infrared light excitation of rare-earth upconversion can effectively avoid food fluorescence and the photobleaching effect; thus, the components to be detected in the samples can be monitored real time without a complex extraction process. Due to the instability of the antioxidants at room temperature, the short time required for this reaction (6 min) will facilitate the study of the true antioxidant power of the samples. This method is simple and responds well to the main antioxidants of fruits and vegetables with a detection limit of 0.1 μmol L−1, such as ascorbic acid, polyphenols, and anthocyanin, and it shows good linearity in the concentration range of 0–1.0 mmol L−1.
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BIOMASS & BIOENERGY
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2023
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Jirui Yang,Yanwei Zhang,Feng Shen,Xinhua Qi
Meerwein-Ponndorf-Verley (MPV) reaction has been widely acknowledged to be a mild catalytic transfer hydrogenation method for selective reduction of biomass-derived furfural to furfuryl alcohol . Herein zirconium-containing mesoporous composite catalyst was developed through the combination of sol-gel process and soft templating method, in which naturally abundant glucose and F127 triblock copolymer were used as the ligand and pore-forming agent, respectively. The hydroxyl groups in glucose molecules were demonstrated to be coordinated with zirconium ion during hydrolysis-condensation of zirconium precursor, leading to the even dispersion of zirconia nanoparticles in the composite catalyst. The composite catalyst was proven to be highly efficient for catalyzing MPV reduction of furfural with the maximum furfuryl alcohol yield of 93.4% at 180 °C within 180 min in 2-propanol, which served as both solvent and reductant . The composite also showed a good reusability . After five consecutive reaction cycles, furfuryl alcohol yield was slightly reduced from 93.4% to 77.7%, but it could be recovered to 92.8% after the reused composite was regenerated with dilute alkali solution. Batch experiments and systematic characterizations demonstrated that the excellent catalytic performance of composite catalyst was determined by multiple factors mainly including the stronger Lewis acidity, a considerable amount of basic site and the rich mesoporous structure. This study provides a facile strategy to prepare multifunctional composite catalysts using naturally abundant carbohydrates as the feedstocks for lignocellulosic biorefinery .
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MICROCHIMICA ACTA
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2023
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IF 5.7
Li Shenghua,Xiao Lingyu,Xiao Longqian,Tan Hongliang
The potential of coordination polymers (CPs) as a host of integrating multiple guest species to construct a fluorescence resonance energy transfer (FRET) nanoprobe was demonstrated. The ZnCPs built from zinc(II) and adenine was employed as a model of CPs to integrate carbon dot (CD) and phenol red (PR) for producing the FRET nanoprobe (CD/PR@ZnCPs). Benefiting from the confinement effect of ZnCPs, the integrated CD and PR can be brought in close proximity to favor the occurrence of FRET process from CD to PR, which leads to the quenching of CD fluorescence. However, the FRET process was disrupted upon the red-shift of PR absorption from 428 to 562 nm in alkaline medium, and consequently switches on the fluorescence of CD/PR@ZnCPs. Based on this finding, by utilizing urease to hydrolyze urea and mediate medium pH, a turn-on fluorescent method was established for the detection of urease activity. This fluorescent method has a linear response that covers 5 to 150 U/L urease with a detection limit of 0.74 U/L and exhibits an excellent selectivity over other enzymes. The successful determination of urease in saliva samples demonstrates the applicability of the fluorescent nanoprobe in complex biological matrix. Graphical Abstract
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Food & Function
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2022
·Vol. 14
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IF 6.317
Wenjie Yu,Fengjie Sun,Ruixin Xu,Meng Cui,Yongquan Liu,Quanyuan Xie,Limin Guo,Chenxian Kong,Xin Li,Xiali Guo,Liping Luo
Castanopsis is diffusely spread in tropical and subtropical regions and is an important nectar source plant in China. The Castanopsis honey (CH) is characterized by its bitter taste. However, its composition and functions remain unclear. In this study, the physicochemical parameters, chemical composition, and antioxidant capacity of CH were comprehensively investigated, with the anti-inflammatory effects of the Castanopsis honey extract (CHE) evaluated based on the RAW 264.7 cell inflammatory model. The results revealed a high level of quality in CH based on the quality standards. Among a total of 84 compounds identified in CH, 5 high response compounds and 29 phenols were further quantified by UPLC-Q/TOF-MS. The high content of phenylethylamine (117.58 ± 64.81 mg kg−1) was identified as a potential marker of CH. Furthermore, the CH showed evident antioxidant activities, and the anti-inflammatory activities of CHE were observed to inhibit the release of nitric oxide (NO) and reduce the content of tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNF-α) and improve the content of interleukin-10 (IL-10) by regulating the NF-κB pathway. Our study indicates that CH has sound physicochemical properties and biological activities with a high level of quality, providing strong experimental evidence to support the further economic and agricultural development and application of CH.
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FOOD CHEMISTRY
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Ying Li,Rida Javed,Rui Li,Yuyang Zhang,Ziyue Lang,Hongbin Zhao,Xing Liu,Hongmei Cao,Daixin Ye
Ascorbic acid is one of the important vitamins to maintain human life activities and plays an irreplaceable role in regulating human redox metabolism. Fresh fruit can provide plenty of AA to maintain human metabolic balance. Thus, it is great significant to develop a rapid and convenient method for detection of AA to evaluate the freshness and nutritional quality of fruits. In this work, Fe single-atom nanoenzyme (Fe-SAN) based colorimetric sensor assisted with smartphone was designed for rapid and on-site AA detection in tropical fruits. Firstly, Fe-SAN with high oxidase-mimicking activity was synthesized by using green tea leaves as sources of carbon and nitrogen and NaH 2 PO 2 as P source to obtain Fe-P/N C SAN, in which P was used to reconstruct the distribution of electronic to enhance the oxidase-mimicking activity of Fe-SAN. Besides, the as-synthesized Fe-P/N C SAN with remarkable oxidase-like activities could oxidize 3,3́,5,5́-tetramethylbenzidine (TMB) to blue colored oxidized TMB. AA could inhibit the oxidation of TMB, leading to blue fading. Based on the above principle, colorimetric sensor integrated with smartphone RGB mode was fabricated and exhibited a good linear detection range (0.5–100 μM) and low detection limit of 0.315 μM for AA detection under optimal conditions. More importantly, the developed sensor could rapidly and accurately detect AA in real sample, such as pineapple, wax apple and mango. Therefore, this research provides a new cost-effective method for the efficient and exact detection of AA in tropical fruit, which has a broad application prospect.
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Biomedical Optics Express
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2023
·Vol. 14
·期 9
·4800-4813
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Yunfei Zhang,Guangcai Liu,Xiangning Li,Xiangning Li,Xiangning Li,Hui Gong,Hui Gong,Qingming Luo,Qingming Luo,Qingming Luo,Xiaoquan Yang,Xiaoquan Yang
Optical microscopy is a powerful tool for exploring the structure and function of organisms. However, the three-dimensional (3D) imaging of large volume samples is time-consuming and difficult. In this manuscript, we described an on-line clearing and staining method for efficient imaging of large volume samples at the cellular resolution. The optimized cocktail can increase staining and imaging depth to reduce the sectioning and scanning time, more than doubling the operational efficiency of the system. Using this method, we demonstrated the rapid acquisition of Aβ plaques in whole mouse brain and obtained a complete set of cytoarchitecture images of an adult porcine hemisphere at 1.625 × 1.625 × 10 µm3 voxel resolution for about 49 hours.
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FOOD MICROBIOLOGY
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2023
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Hongchen Zhang,Yujun Zhai,Kewei Chen,Hui Shi
Escherichia coli O157:H7 can recover from sublethally injured (SI) state, which causes threat of foodborne illness . Adhesion plays a key role in the carriage of pathogens in food . In this study, we investigated the adhesion ability of SI and recovered E. coli O157:H7 wildtype and its three pili-deficient mutants (curli, type 1 fimbriae , and type IV pili) on six food-related surfaces. Plate counting was used to determine adhesion population after washing and oscillating the surfaces. Spinach exhibited the stronger adhesion population of E. coli O157:H7 than the other fresh produces (p < 0.05). In addition, at least one key pili dominated adhesion on these surfaces, and curli was always included. The adhesion population and contribution of different types of pili were jointly affected by surface and physiological state. This can be attributed to high hydrophobicity and positive charge density on surface and different expression levels of csgB , fimA , fimC and ppdD in SI and recovered cells. Among glucose, mannose , maltose , fructose, lactose, and sucrose , addition of 0.5% mannose could reduce adhesion of cells at all physiological states on stainless steel. Overall, this research will provide support for controlling adhesion of SI and recovered E. coli O157:H7.
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