双极膜分离技术及应用进展

双极膜通过对水解离具有的催化效应,能够使水中的盐重新转变为酸和碱,在环境保护和资源回收等领域发挥着越来越大的作用。本文解析了双极膜的“三明治”结构特点、发展历程及发展趋势、制备工艺技术,阐述了双极膜催化水解离机理的3个模型：第二Wien效应模型、化学反应模型以及中和层模型。探究了双极膜电渗析及与其它化工过程耦合技术在不同领域的应用,其中包括酸碱生产领域、资源分离回收领域以及污染控制领域等。分析了双极膜的具体应用过程中存在的局限性并展望了双极膜在水解制氢、液流电池方面的应用前景。指出双极膜将朝着与传统化工过程、新型液流电池等系统集成化、规模化方向发展,成为多种化工应用领域的重要组件。     

基于水热处理的镁合金超疏水表面制备及其腐蚀防护性能研究

为了改善镁合金表面较差的耐腐蚀性能,对镁合金表面依次进行了水热处理和低表面能物质修饰处理,并利用扫描电子显微镜、X-射线衍射仪、接触角测量仪对其表面形貌、表面组成和表面润湿行为进行了研究。结果表明,经水热处理后,镁合金表面生产了一层结构粗糙的氢氧化镁,经低表面能物质修饰之后,接触角可达158.5°,滚动角8°,显示出优异的超疏水性。电化学测试结果表明,制备的超疏水表明腐蚀防护性能优异。     

Fertility Inhibitor Heterobimetallic Complexes of Platinum(II) and Palladium(II): Synthetic, Spectroscopic and Antimicrobial Aspects

Synthetic, spectroscopic and antimicrobial aspects of some fertility inhibitor heterobimetallic complexes have been carried out. These heterobimetallic chelates [M(C(5)H(5)N(3))(2)M(2)'(R)(4)]Cl(2) (M = Pd or Pt and M' = Si, Sn, Ti and Zr) have been successfully synthesinzed via the reaction of M(C(5)H(7)N(3))(2)Cl(2) with group four or fourteen dichlorides in 1:2 stoichiometric proportions. The products were characterized by elemental analyses, molecular weight determinations, magnetic susceptibility measurements, conductance, and IR multinuclear NMR and electronic spectral studies. A square planar geometry has been suggested for all the complexes with the help of spectral data. Conductivity data strongly suggest that chlorine atoms are ionic in nature due to which complexes behave as electrolytes. All the complexes have been evaluated for their antmicrobial effects on different species of pathogenic fungi and bacteria. The testicular sperm density, testicular sperm morphology, sperm motility, density of cauda epididymal spermatozoa and fertility in mating trails and biochemical parameters of reproductive organs have been examined and discussed.     

Lipidic membranes are potential "catalysts" in the ligand activity of the multifunctional pentapeptide neokyotorphin

Neokyotorphin (NKT) is a multifunctional pentapeptide that is involved in biological functions as diverse as analgesia, antihibernatic regulation and proliferation stimulus of tumour cells. The interaction of neokyotorphin with cell membranes is potentially important to all these multiple biological processes since receptor-mediated processes are thought to be involved in neokyotorphin action. Sargent and Schwyzer proposed in their "membrane catalysis" model that ligands interact with membrane lipids in order to adopt the necessary conformation for cell receptors. We have used fluorescence techniques to study the depth, orientation and extent of incorporation of NKT with model membrane systems (lipidic vesicles). The roles of lipid charge, membrane phase and sterol presence were investigated. The phenolic ring of tyrosine is located in a shallow position in membranes. The extent of partition is less in gel crystalline membranes than in liquid crystalline membranes. Addition of cholesterol causes a reorientation of the tyrosine ring at the interface of lipidic bilayers. Lipidic membranes meet all the conditions required for acting as potential "catalysts" in the ligand activity of the multifunctional pentapeptide NKT, because they modulate the exposure and orientation of the phenolic ring, which is most likely involved in docking to receptors.     

Biosynthesis and identification of volatiles released by the myxobacterium Stigmatella aurantiaca

The volatiles released by agar plate cultures of two strains of the myxobacterium Stigmatella aurantiaca (strains Sg a15 and DW4/3-1) were collected in a closed-loop stripping apparatus (CLSA) and analyzed by GC-MS. Large numbers of substances from different compound classes (ketones, esters, lactones, terpenes, and sulfur and nitrogen compounds) were identified; several of them are reported from natural sources for the first time. The volatiles 2-methyltridecan-4-one (17), its isomer 3-methyltridecan-4-one (20), and the higher homologue 2-methyltetradecan-4-one (18) were identified in the extracts of both strains and were synthesized. In addition, strain Sg a15 produced 2,12-dimethyltridecan-4-one (19), 2-methyltridec-2-en-4-one (23), and a series of phenyl ketones, among them 1-phenyldecan-1-one (14) and 9-methyl-1-phenyldecan-1-one (16), whereas strain DW4/3-1 emitted traces of 10-methylundecan-2-one (21). The biosynthesis of 14 and 16 was examined in feeding experiments with deuterated precursors carried out on agar plate cultures. The leucine-derived starter unit isovalerate was shown to be incorporated into 16, as was phenylalanine-derived benzoic acid into both 14 and 16. The results point to formation both of the phenyl ketones and of the structurally related aliphatic ketones through an unusual head-to-head coupling between a starter unit such as benzoyl-CoA and a fatty acyl-CoA, followed by decarboxylation.     

Fluctuating enzymes: lessons from single-molecule studies

Recent single-molecule enzymology measurements with improved statistics have demonstrated that a single enzyme molecule exhibits large temporal fluctuations of the turnover rate constant at a broad range of time scales (from 1 ms to 100 s). The rate constant fluctuations, termed as dynamic disorder, are associated with fluctuations of the protein conformations observed on the same time scales. We discuss the unique information extractable from these experiments and the reconciliation of these observations with ensemble-averaged Michaelis-Menten equation. A theoretical model based on the generalized Langevin equation (GLE) treatment of Kramers' barrier crossing problem for chemical reactions accounts naturally for the observation of dynamic disorder and highly dispersed kinetics.     

深过冷Ni-21.4%Si共晶合金的凝固特性研究

对熔融玻璃净化后深过冷Ni-21.4%Si（原子分数,下同）共晶合金的凝固特性进行了实验研究,并对其均质形核过冷度进行了理论预测.结果发现,采用熔融玻璃净化可使Ni-21.4%Si共晶合金获得318 K的过冷度.理论计算表明,此过冷度达到了Ni-21.4%Si共晶合金的均质形核过冷度.Ni-21.4%Si共晶合金凝固特性与过冷度△T有关:当过冷度小于250 K时,冷却曲线有2个再辉峰,其中当过冷度小于206 K时,凝固组织由Ni3Si相和规则共晶组成,当过冷度在206 K到250 K之间时,凝固组织由α-Ni相和规则共晶组成;过冷度大于250 K后,冷却曲线只有1个再辉峰,凝固组织为反常共晶.过冷度会影响初生相Ni3Si的生长方式.随着过冷度的增大,初生相Ni₃Si的生长会由小平面生长方式转为非小平面生长方式.     

Adsorption of cationic monomeric and gemini surfactants on montmorillonite and adsolubilization of vitamin E

Adsorption of a cationic gemini surfactant (1,2-bis(dodecyldimethylammonio) ethane dibromide, 12-2-12) and the corresponding monomeric surfactant (dodecyltrimethylammonium bromide, DTAB) on montmorillonite has been characterized with a combination of adsorption isotherm, interlayer spacing and FT-IR spectroscopic data. Adsolubilization of vitamin E into the adsorbed surfactant layers has also been studied. The adsorption isotherm data reveal that the adsorption of the two surfactants is driven by the two factors: one is the cation exchange that occurs on the interlayer basal planes and the other is the hydrophobic interaction between hydrocarbon chains of the surfactants. Although the adsorbed amount measured in the saturation region (in mol g(-1)) is almost identical for the two surfactants, the conformation of the intercalated surfactant molecules differs significantly from each other. The adsorption of DTAB results in a lateral bilayer arrangement in the limited interlayer space, whereas 12-2-12 gives a normal bilayer arrangement in the expanded interlayer space. Adsolubilization of vitamin E takes place into the adsorbed surfactant layers, and interestingly, all the vitamin E molecules added in the montmorillonite suspensions are hybridized at lower surfactant concentrations due to the great specific surface area of the clay material. Since the maximum adsolubilization amount is usually obtained just below the critical micelle concentration, the gemini surfactant is deemed to be more efficient than the corresponding monomeric one to achieve the great adsolubilization amount.     

Synthesis and application of fluorescein- and biotin-labeled molecular probes for the chemokine receptor CXCR4

The design, synthesis, and bioevaluation of fluorescence- and biotin-labeled CXCR4 antagonists are described. The modification of D-Lys8 at an epsilon-amino group in the peptide antagonist Ac-TZ14011 derived from polyphemusin II had no significant influence on the potent binding of the peptide to the CXCR4 receptor. The application of the labeled peptides in flow cytometry and confocal microscopy studies demonstrated the selectivity of their binding to the CXCR4 receptor, but not to CXCR7, which was recently reported to be another receptor for stromal cell-derived factor 1 (SDF-1)/CXCL12.