MOLECULES
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2022
·Vol. 27
·期 24
·8783
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IF 4.927
Zihui Xu,Jing Zhan,Zhirong Xu,Liangchen Mao,Xiaowei Mu,Ran Tao
The high flammability of vinyl ester resin (VE) significantly limits its widespread application in the fields of electronics and aerospace. A new phosphorus-based flame retardant 6,6’-(1-phenylethane-1,2 diyl) bis (dibenzo[c,e][1,2]oxaphosphinine 6-oxide) (PBDOO), was synthesized using 9,10-dihydro-9-oxa-10-phosphaphenanthrene-10-oxide (DOPO) and acetophenone. The synthesized PBDOO was further incorporated with VE to form the VE/PBDOO composites, which displayed an improved flame retardancy with higher thermal stability. The structure of PBDOO was investigated using Fourier transformed infrared spectrometry (FTIR) and nuclear magnetic resonances (NMR). The thermal stability and flame retardancy of VE/PBDOO composites were investigated by thermogravimetric analysis (TGA), vertical burn test (UL-94), limiting oxygen index (LOI), and cone calorimetry. The impacts of PBDOO weight percentage (wt%) on the flame-retardant properties of the formed VE/PBDOO composites were also examined. When applying 15 wt% PBDOO, the formed VE composites can meet the UL-94 V-0 rating with a high LOI value of 31.5%. The peak heat release rate (PHRR) and the total heat release (THR) of VE loaded 15 wt% of PBDOO decreased by 76.71% and 40.63%, respectively, compared with that of untreated VE. In addition, the flame-retardant mechanism of PBDOO was proposed by analyzing pyrolysis behavior and residual carbon of VE/PBDOO composites. This work is expected to provide an efficient method to enhance the fire safety of VE.Keywords:vinyl ester resin;flame retardant;thermal stability;mechanism analysis
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MATERIALS & DESIGN
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2022
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IF 9.417
Yi Li,Hangqi Luo,Yue Li,Peipei Huang,Jie Xu,Jian Zhang,Peihan Cai,Huacheng He,Jiang Wu,Xiaokun Li
Surgical suture plays an important role in increasing wound repair. However, the healing efficacy of sutures currently is still not satisfactory due to their failure in regulating healing biology. Therefore, developing functional sutures are highly required. Herein, we fabricated a new degradable suture to control the release of basic fibroblast growth factor (bFGF) for incisional wound healing. The suture ( [email protected] ) was simply made by anchoring bFGF onto the surface of the electrospun polycaprolactone (PCL) suture through the assistance of dopamine with a bFGF loading efficiency around 80 %. The introduction of dopamine to the suture also increased the mechanical strength of suture from 17 kPa to 27 kPa. The in vitro data evidenced that the suture could effectively prolong bFGF release up to 10 days and enhance cell adhesion and proliferation. Further in vivo results demonstrated that the suture could increase wound healing and induce a complete wound closure within 13 days. Moreover, the suture was found to accelerate skin mechanical restoration with a recovery of maximum strength to 87.1 % of the healthy skin. The suture was also revealed to help the skin wound healing by promoting granulation tissue formation, collagen deposition, reepithelization, and basement membrane reconstruction.
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Nano-Micro Letters
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2022
·Vol. 15
·期 1
·1-14
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IF 23.655
Liang Jiajie,Wang Shaojie,Luo Zhen,Fu Jing,Hu Jun,He Jinliang,Li Qi
Ferroelectric polymer nanocomposites possess exceptional electric properties with respect to the two otherwise uniform phases, which is commonly attributed to the critical role of the matrix–particle interfacial region. However, the structure–property correlation of the interface remains unestablished, and thus, the design of ferroelectric polymer nanocomposite has largely relied on the trial-and-error method. Here, a strategy that combines multi-mode scanning probe microscopy-based electrical characterization and nano-infrared spectroscopy is developed to unveil the local structure–property correlation of the interface in ferroelectric polymer nanocomposites. The results show that the type of surface modifiers decorated on the nanoparticles can significantly influence the local polar-phase content and the piezoelectric effect of the polymer matrix surrounding the nanoparticles. The strongly coupled polar-phase content and piezoelectric effect measured directly in the interfacial region as well as the computed bonding energy suggest that the property enhancement originates from the formation of hydrogen bond between the surface modifiers and the ferroelectric polymer. It is also directly detected that the local domain size of the ferroelectric polymer can impact the energy level and distribution of charge traps in the interfacial region and eventually influence the local dielectric strength.
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EXPERIMENTAL ANIMALS
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2023
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Jianqiang WEI,Jing YIN,Ying CUI,Kaijie WANG,Mingyan HONG,Jianzhong CUI
Intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH) is an incurable neurological disease. Microglia activation and its related inflammation contribute to ICH-associated brain damage. FERM domain containing kindlin 1 (FERMT1) is an integrin-binding protein that participates in microglia-associated inflammation, but its role in ICH is unclear. An ICH model was constructed by injecting 50 μl of autologous blood into the bregma of rats. FERMT1 siRNA was injected into the right ventricle of the rat for knockdown of FERMT1. A significant striatal hematoma was observed in ICH rats. FERMT1 knockdown reduced the water content of brain tissue, alleviated brain hematoma and improved behavioral function in ICH rats. FERMT1 knockdown reduced microglia activity, inhibited NLR family pyrin domain containing 3 (NLRP3) inflammasome activity and decreased the expression of inflammatory factors including interleukin-1β (IL-1β) and interleukin 18 (IL-18) in the peri-hematoma tissues. BV2 microglial cells were transfected with FERMT1 siRNA and incubated with 60 μM Hemin for 24 h. Activation of NLRP3 inflammasome induced by hemin were reduced in microglia when FERMT1 was knocked down, leading to decreased production of inflammatory factors IL-1β and IL-18. In addition, knockdown of FERMT1 prevented the activation of nuclear factor kappa B (NF-κB) signaling pathway in vivo and in vitro. Our findings suggested that down-regulation of FERMT1 attenuated microglial inflammation and brain damage induced by ICH via NLRP3/NF-κB pathway. FERMT1 is a key regulator of inflammatory damage in rats after ICH.
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Metabolites
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2023
·Vol. 13
·期 2
·159
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Lu Ding,Yingjie Liu,Xiaofeng Wei,Chuanye Geng,Wenzhi Liu,Lin Han,Fangying Yuan,Peng Wang,Yanchun Sun
The salinization of the water environment caused by human activities and global warming has increased which has brought great survival challenges to aquatic animals. Crucian carp (Carassius auratus) is an essential freshwater economic fish with superior adaptability to saline-alkali water. However, the physiological regulation mechanism of crucian carp adapting to saline-alkali stress remains still unclear. In this study, crucian carp were exposed to freshwater or 20, 40, and 60 mmol/L NaHCO3water environments for 30 days, the effects of saline-alkali stress on the kidney were evaluated by histopathology, biochemical assays and metabolomics analysis from renal function, antioxidant capacity and metabolites level. Our results showed different degrees of kidney damage at different exposure concentrations, which were characterized by glomerular atrophy and swelling, renal tubular degranulation, obstruction and degeneration, renal interstitial edema, renal cell proliferation and necrosis. Saline-alkali stress could change the levels of several physiological parameters with renal function and antioxidant capacity, including creatinine (CREA), urea nitrogen (BUN), superoxide dismutase (SOD), catalase (CAT), glutathione peroxidase (GSH-Px) and malondialdehyde (MDA). In addition, metabolomics analysis showed that differential metabolites (DMs) were involved in various metabolic pathways, including phenylalanine, tyrosine, and tryptophan biosynthesis, aminoacyl-tRNA biosynthesis, purine metabolism, glycerophospholipid metabolism, sphingolipid metabolism, glycolysis/gluconeogenesis and the TCA cycle. In general, our study revealed that saline-alkaline stress could cause significant changes in renal function and metabolic profiles, and induce severe damage in the crucian carp kidney through destroying the anti-oxidant system and energy homeostasis, inhibiting protein and amino acid catabolism, as well as disordering purine metabolism and lipid metabolism. This study could contribute to a deeper understanding the adverse effects of saline-alkali stress on crucian carp kidney and the regulatory mechanism in the crucian carp of saline-alkali adaptation at the metabolic level.Keywords:saline-alkaline stress;crucian carp;kidney;metabolomics;histopathology
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JOURNAL OF COLLOID AND INTERFACE SCIENCE
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2022
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IF 9.965
Chengcheng Ma,Wei Wang,Debao Kong,Wen Li,Shougang Chen
This work successfully synthesized the salicylic [email protected] ( [email protected] ) microcapsules with PUF microcapsules as shell material and SA as core material. The loading content of SA in the PUF microcapsules was approximately 40 %. The [email protected] microcapsules had excellent long-term antibacterial properties because the PUF microcapsules controlled the release of SA antifouling agents with the ability to induce reactive oxygen species generation and inactivate bacteria. The antibacterial efficiency of [email protected] microcapsules after 35 days against Staphylococcus aureus and Pseudomonas aeruginosa remained at 80 % and 81 %, increased by 60 % and 62 % compared with pure SA, respectively. The impedance modulus at 0.01 Hz of the [email protected] coating reached 5.51 GΩ cm 2 , much higher than blank coating (2.55 GΩ cm 2 ) and PUF coating (4.94 GΩ cm 2 ), indicating that the anti-corrosion property of the [email protected] coating was much better. This work would contribute to developing novel coatings with long-term antibacterial activity and excellent anti-corrosion performance.
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PROGRESS IN ORGANIC COATINGS
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2023
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Kunquan Li,Jiamin Xiang,Jiale Zhou,Xiaojing Su,Huali Xie,Shaoze Lin,Zihao Xiao,Weijun Huang,Chongrui Zhao,Huiru Chen,Wenjian Wu
Superhydrophobic material has great potential applications in the field of anti-icing due to its special wettability . However, the poor wear resistance of the material has restricted its practical applications. Based on this, a simple two-step spray method was used to prepare a self-healing and robust superhydrophobic coating with excellent photothermal/electrothermal effect for anti-icing using epoxy modified ethylene octene copolymer (POEG) resin as the substrate layer and the fluorinated carbon black as the top coating. Results showed that the obtained composite coating showed multi-level rough structure and possessed excellent superhydrophobicity toward water droplets with different pH. Meanwhile, the composite coating could resist abrasion and kept superhydropbobicity even 250 cycles abrasion test with a water contact angle higher than 150 o . When the surface was subjected to the intense abrasion, the rough structure and the superhydrophobic property of the surface were destroyed. However, it could be restored by the abrasion of the rougher surface. In addition, the scratches on the surface could be completely repaired by the heat treatment, indicating the good self-healing performance of the composite coating. Due to the existence of the carbon black particles, the superhydrophobic coating had good photothermal/electrothermal effects, which endowed the surface with excellent anti-icing performance of removing the icing under the conditions of electrothermal and light. This paper provides a simple and convenient way to prepare functional self-healing superhydrophobic coating, and a new idea for the preparation of anti-icing coating.
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COLLOIDS AND SURFACES A-PHYSICOCHEMICAL AND ENGINEERING ASPECTS
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2023
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Wenbo He,Junfei Ou,Fajun Wang,Sheng Lei,Xinzuo Fang,Wen Li,Alidad Amirfazli
Paraloid B72, composed of an ethyl methacrylate (70%) and methyl acrylate (30%) copolymer , is widely used in the field of cultural relics protection due to its transparency, durability, and nonyellowing. However, B72 is hydrophilic and the water resistance should be enhanced. Herein, as a further study of the pioneer research by Ntelia et al. [1] , transparent superhydrophobic coating was prepared and the durability as well as the protection against moisture will be studied. B72 was mixed with the hydrophobic nanoparticles of SiO 2 in xylene and a transparent and superhydrophobic coating was then obtained by spraying onto the substrate of fabric, paper and wood. The fraction of SiO 2 in the mixture was optimized to be 2 wt% by taking hydrophobicity , air permeability , transparency, and ultraviolet transmittance into consideration. The optimal coating presented a continuous porous network surface structure with the maximum contact angle of 165° and the minimum sliding angle of 6°. Average transmittance in visible and ultraviolet light range for the composite coating on glass was 72.57% and 19.46%, versus 82.81% and 32.26% for B72, respectively. BS2 coating permeability for different substrates are less than 10%. Contact angle remained above 150° after 4 h of contact with liquids with a pH of 1–13. Water contact angle on the simulated paper relics after exposure to a hot humid (60 °C, 85 – 90 RH%) atmosphere for 5 days remained above 150°. In addition, BS2 coating showed good UV resistance after 10 days of UV light irradiation . All these data demonstrated that such a coating may find potential application in the relic protection due to its superhydrophobicity, breathability, transparency, ultraviolet protection, and durability.
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International Journal of Applied Ceramic Technology
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2023
·Vol. 20
·期 3
·1617-1623
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Debao Liu,Chao Zhang,Yahui Xue
In this study, the ultralong SiC nanofibers (SiC NFs) were synthesized through the sol–gel method assisted the chemical vapor deposition technique. The scanning electron microscope, transmission electron microscopy, X-ray diffraction, Raman, Fourier transform infrared, and X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy techniques were systematically employed to investigate the microstructure, morphology, and phase composition of the as-prepared products. The results demonstrated that the as-obtained products were β-SiC nanofibers with face-centered cubic crystal structure. Meanwhile, the ultralong SiC NFs present an average diameter of about 18 nm and a length up to several hundreds of micrometers and grew along the [1 1 1] direction with a planar stacking faults. In addition, we also investigated the formation mechanism and growth process of the ultralong SiC NFs. The successful preparation of such ultralong SiC NFs provides new idea for fabricating of other silicon-based ultralong nanofibers.
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Advanced Science
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2023
·Vol. 10
·期 7
·2205962
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IF 15.1
Lianqiang Peng,Huitao Yu,Can Chen,Qingxia He,Heng Zhang,Fulai Zhao,Mengmeng Qin,Yiyu Feng,Wei Feng
The controllability of the microstructure of a compressed hierarchical building block is essential for optimizing a variety of performance parameters, such as thermal management. However, owing to the strong orientation effect during compression molding, optimizing the alignment of materials perpendicular to the direction of pressure is challenging. Herein, to illustrate the effect of the ordered microstructure on heat dissipation, thermally conductive carbon-based materials are fabricated by tailoring dense, orientation–tunable, and interleaved structures. Vertically aligned carbon nanotube arrays (VACNTs) interconnected with graphene films (GF) are prepared as a 3D core-ordered material to fabricate compressed building blocks of O–VA–GF and S–VA–GF. Leveraging the densified interleaved structure offered by VACNTs, the hierarchical O–VA–GF achieves excellent through-plane (41.7 W m −1 K −1 ) and in-plane (397.9 W m −1 K −1 ) thermal conductivities, outperforming similar composites of S–VA–GF (through-plane: 10.3 W m −1 K −1 and in-plane: 240.9 W m −1 K −1 ) with horizontally collapsed carbon nanotubes. As heat dissipation plates, these orderly assembled composites yield a 144% and 44% enhancement in the cooling coefficient compared with conventional Si 3 N 4 for cooling high-power light-emitting diode chips.
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EUROPEAN POLYMER JOURNAL
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2023
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Guofei Chen,Gang Xu,Yang Jiao,Yongmei Tang,Liyun Tan,Xingzhong Fang
Two series of transparent cardo polyimides (PIs) derived from bisphenol fluorenes and 1,4-bis(4-fluorophthalimide)cyclohexanes (BFCH) with different ratios of trans- and cis - 1,4-diaminocyclohexane were prepared via aromatic nucleophilic substitution. These PIs exhibited high glass transition temperatures ( T g s) of 271–352 °C, 5% weight loss temperatures ( T d 5% ) of 400–433 °C in nitrogen, mechanical properties of tensile strengths of 62–107 MPa, tensile moduli of 3.0–4.4 GPa and elongations at break of 1.7–4.5% and great solubility in a variety of organic solvents. These PI films appeared excellent optical transparency, which displayed the cut-off wavelengths from 323 to 355 nm and high transmittance at 450 nm with more than 85 %. The steric effects of different substituent groups on bisphenol fluorene and different ratios of trans / cis configuration were also investigated.
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CHEMICAL ENGINEERING JOURNAL
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2023
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Wenbin Jin,Jingjing Wang,Hai Wan,Yuan Liang,Shuohan Huang,Yuwei Chen,Peng Wei,Qun Shao,Yanping Wang,Yong He,Yumin Xia
With the rapid development of marine transportation, frequent oil leakage will inevitably occur. Therefore, oil–water separation had become an important research topic. The polyoxymethylene (POM) microfiber is a potential oil–water separation material with very good chemical stability, hydrophobicity, and lipophilicity, as well as unique microfiber recyclability and deformability. In this paper, the POM microfiber (PMF) was prepared using a method inspired by natural bamboo cellulose. PMF can be directly used for oil adsorption with a maximum of 19.5 times of oil adsorption capacity (OAC). The water contact angle (WCA) in oil of POM microfiber membrane (PMFM) can reach 160° and the oil–water separation efficiency was more than 99%. In addition, the recyclability allowed the PMF to repeatedly separate the oil–water mixture, and the deformability ensured that it can be used in various oil–water separation situations with different shapes. Moreover, only deionized water was used in the top-bottom preparation strategy of PMF without any chemical reagents. Therefore, this eco-friendly strategy had important implications for the preparation of microfiber materials.
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