Sustainable Production of Surfactants from Renewable Resources(Online First, Recommended Article)

Surfactants are important chemical products, serving as emulsifiers and interfacial modifiers in the household detergents, personal care products, paints and coatings, foods, cosmetics, and pharmaceuticals industries. This review focuses upon recent advances in research and development to improve the ecological sustainability of surfactants throughout their life cycle, including derivation from renewable resources, production using green manufacturing principles, and improved biocompatibility and biodegradability during their consumer use and disposal stages. Biobased surfactants, derived from vegetable oils, polysaccharides, proteins, phospholipids, and other renewable resources, currently comprise approximately 24% of the surfactant market, and this percentage is expected to increase, especially in Asia. The use of renewables is attractive to consumers because of reduced production of CO2, a greenhouse gas associated with climate change. Enzymes can greatly increase process sustainability, through reduced use of organic solvent, water, and energy, and reduced formation of by-products and waste products. Among the enzymes being investigated for surfactant synthesis, lipases are the most robust, due to their relatively high biocatalytic activity, operational stability and their ability to form or cleave ester, amide, and thioester bonds. For enzymes to be robust catalysts of surfactants, further research and development is needed to improve catalytic productivity, stability and reduce their purchase cost.     

Regulation effect of osteoblasts towards osteocytes by silk fibroin encapsulation

Herein, the rational design micromilieus involved silk fibroin (SF)-based materials have been used to encapsulate the osteoblasts, forming an extracellular coated shell on the cells, which exhibited the high potential to shift the regulation of osteoblasts to osteocytes by encapsulation cues. SF coating treated cells showed a change in cell morphology from osteoblasts-like to osteocytes-like shape compared with untreated ones. Moreover, the expression of alkaline phosphatase (ALP), collagen I (Col I) and osteocalcin (OCN) further indicated a potential approach for inducing osteoblasts regulation, which typically accelerates calcium deposition and cell calcification, presenting a key role for the SF encapsulation in controlling osteoblasts behavior. This discovery showed that SF-based cell encapsulation could be used for osteoblasts behavior regulation, which offers a great potential to modulate mammalian cells’ phenotype involving alternating surrounding cues.     

Advantages and disadvantages of nuclear reactions used in reactors or cyclotrons,in addition to a theoretical study based on photodisintegration on natural indium for 111Ag production

Production routes were recorded on available reactions for ¹¹¹Ag production from nuclear reactors or cyclotrons using a natural palladium target based on ¹¹⁰Pd（n, γ） and ¹¹⁰pd（d, n） reactions, respectively.^natCd（γ,x） based on ¹¹⁰Cd（γ, p） has also been studied as a prospective reaction for the production of ¹¹¹Ag. Unfortunately, these nuclear reactions are difficult to utilize because, in some cases, they reduce the specific activi...     

Influence of nitrogen impurities on the characteristics of a patterned helium dielectric barrier discharge at atmospheric pressure

In this paper, a two-dimensional axisymmetric fluid model was established to investigate the influence of nitrogen impurity content on the discharge pattern and the relevant discharge characteristics in an atmosphere pressure helium dielectric barrier discharge (DBD). The results indicated that when the nitrogen content was increased from 1 to 100 ppm, the discharge pattern evolved from a concentric-ring pattern into a uniform pattern, and then returned to the concentricring pattern. In this process, the discharge mode at the current peak moment transformed from glow mode into Townsend mode, and then returned to glow mode. Further analyses revealed that with the increase of impurity level, the rate of Penning ionization at the pre-ionization stage increased at first and decreased afterwards, resulting in a similar evolution pattern of seed electron level. This evolution trend was believed to be resulted from the competition between the N₂ partial pressure and the consumption rate of metastable species. Moreover, the discharge uniformity was found positively correlated with the spatial uniformity of seed electron density as well as the seed electron level. The reason for this correlation was explained by the reduction of radial electric field strength and the promotion of seed electron uniformity as pre-ionization level increases. The results obtained in this work may help better understand the pattern formation mechanism of atmospheric helium DBD under the variation of N₂ impurity level, thereby providing a possible means of regulating the discharge performance in practical application scenarios.     

聚酯长丝纱线创新性变形加工工艺的革新

正聚酯(PET)纱线具有非常好的物理化学性能和商业特性,由于其尺寸稳定性好、对下游工艺的需求低、抗皱等级高、蓬松性好、手感温暖、性价比高且易供应,因而其应用范围正不断扩大。PET丝能以各种不同的长丝形态或组合长丝形态形成纱线(图1),以提供相应的特性。这些特性使     

在腐植酸存在的条件下动态模拟铜在贻贝类体内的富积

正依据金属生物利用度模型,腐植酸对铜的络合作用有望降低水生生物对铜的生物利用度,就如生物配体模型(BLM)。这个模型在海洋无脊椎动物胚胎或是微藻类等不进食生物中得到了证实。但对于像紫贻贝等滤食性生物体,在腐植酸存在的条件下铜的富积较高,表明摄取的铜-腐植     

数字断层融合成像技术及其在乳腺癌筛查方面的应用

乳腺癌严重威胁着女性的生命健康,其治疗的关键手段在于早期诊断。乳腺数字断层融合技术是当前乳腺癌早期筛查的重要方式之一,成为乳腺成像领域的研究热点。数字断层融合成像技术使用影像重建算法将不同角度获取的一系列低剂量乳腺X射线影像重建,得到与探测器平面平行的乳腺任意深度层面的影像。相对于传统的二维X射线乳腺成像,数字断层融合成像技术具有检出率高、病灶成像不重叠、成像清晰等优点,被广泛应用于科学研究和临床治疗中。在陈颖博士多年研究的基础上,结合国内外最新的相关研究现状,从研究背景、技术原理、临床应用等方面,综述了乳腺数字断层融合成像技术在乳腺癌筛查诊断中的研究和应用现状。     

Water-stable ZIF-300/Ultrason(R) mixed-matrix membranes for selective CO2 capture from humid post combustion flue gas

Water stable mixed-matrix membranes (MMMs) were developed to help control the global warming by capturing and sequestrating carbon dioxide (CO2) from post-combustion flue gas originated from burning of fossil fuels.MMMs of different compositions were prepared by doping glassy polymer Ultrason(R) S 6010 (US) with nanocrystals of zeolitic imidazolate frameworks (ZIF-300) in varying degrees.Solution-casting technique was used to fabricate various MMMs to optimize their CO2 capturing performance from both dry and wet gases.The prepared composite membranes indicated enhanced filler-polymer interfacial adhesion,consistent distribution of nanofiller,and thermally established matrix configuration.CO2 permeability of the membranes was enhanced as demonstrated by gas sorption and permeation experiments performed under both dry and wet conditions.As compared to neat Ultrason(R) membrane,CO2 permeability of the composite membrane doped with 40 wt％ ZIF-300 nanocrystals was increased by four times without disturbing CO2/N2 ideal selectivity.In contrast to majority of previously reported membranes,key features of the fabricated MMMs include their structural stability under humid conditions coupled with better and unaffected gas separation performance.     

ZrCuAlNi系大块金属玻璃的非晶形成能力、热学和力学性能（英文）

分析ZrCuAlNi系大块金属玻璃的非晶形成能力、热学和力学性能。运用密实堆积和动态脆性指数模型从理论上确定合金的成分。采用铜模吸铸法在氩气保护下制备圆柱形和圆锥形铸锭。用X射线衍射表征圆锥形铸锭以便确定非晶结构。结果表明:两种合金的临界非晶直径为3 mm。用差示扫描量热法(DSC)分析其热行为,加热速率分别为0.5、0.67和0.83 K/s。γ参数、过冷液相区ΔT_x和约化玻璃转变温度T_(rg)等这些实验所得的参数均表明其具有高的非晶形成能力。非晶成分显示其脆性指数为40。合金的压缩试验采用的应变速率为0.016 s~(-1),得到弹性模量约为83 GPa,总应变约为5%,屈服强度为1.6 GPa,硬度为4 GPa。运用密实堆积和动态脆性指数模拟可以预测ZrCuAlNi系合金的非晶形成成分。