超疏水表面制备的研究进展

近年来,在研究领域接触角大于150°的超疏水表面有着巨大的吸引力.超疏水表面一般通过构造一定表面粗糙度和用低表面自由能物质修饰表明而成.文章简单的介绍了疏水表面的基础理论和最新研究进展.虽然超疏水表面在实际应用中还有一定的限制,但这些困难都将慢慢被克服,最后超疏水表面将应用在各种不同的工业领域.     

Peptide Assembly of Al/CuO Nanothermite for Enhanced Reactivity of Nanoaluminum Particles

Biological self-assembly procedures, which are generally carried out in an aqueous solution, have been found to be the most promising method for directing the fabrication of diverse nanothermites, including Al/CuO nanothermite. However, the aqueous environment in which Al nanoparticles self-assemble has an impact on their stability. We show that using a peptide to self-assemble Al or CuO nanoparticles considerably improves their durability in phosphate buffer aqueous solution, with Al and CuO nanoparticles remaining intact in aqueous solution for over 2 weeks with minimal changes in the structure. When peptide-assembled Al/CuO nanothermite was compared with a physically mixed sample in phosphate buffer for 30 min, the energy release of the former was higher by 26%. Furthermore, the energy release of peptide-assembled Al/CuO nanocomposite in phosphate buffer showed a 6% reduction by Day 7, while that of the peptide-assembled Al/CuO nanocomposite in ultrapure water was reduced by 75%. Taken together, our study provides an easy method for keeping the thermal activity of Al/CuO nanothermite assembled in aqueous solution.     

测试条件对聚氯乙烯树脂稀溶液粘数的影响

聚氯乙烯树脂稀溶液粘数是聚氯乙烯树脂的一项重要指标,它的高低决定着产品的不同用途。本实验测试了几种不同测试条件如测试温度、黏度计毛细管直径、溶剂浓度等对聚氯乙烯树脂稀溶液粘数结果所产生的影响,通过实验数据的理论分析和计算,对原因进行了具体的分析。这些分析结果的获得对提高粘数分析的准确性,对于指导实际生产,规范检验操作,修订检验标准都有着重要的意义。     

全站仪三点前方交会测量风电塔架倾斜

倾斜测量是了解高耸构筑物结构安全的一项重要工作,以风电塔架的倾斜观测为例,采用三点前方交会观测塔架倾斜,对交会点的点位精度进行分析,并将塔架倾斜数据与基础倾斜数据相比对.结果表明,三点前方交会法的倾斜数据可靠、测量精度高,能够为高耸构筑物的结构安全提供有力保障.     

Tetrandrine Inhibits Skeletal Muscle Differentiation by Blocking Autophagic Flux

Tetrandrine is well known to act as a calcium channel blocker. It is a potential candidate for a tumor chemotherapy drug without toxicity. Tetrandrine inhibits cancer cell proliferation and induces cell death through apoptosis and autophagy. As cancer patients usually experience complications with sarcopenia or muscle injury, we thus assessed the effects of tetrandrine on skeletal muscle cells. We report in this study that a low dose of tetrandrine (less than 5 μM) does not affect the proliferation of C2C12 myoblasts, but significantly inhibits myogenic differentiation. Consistently, tetrandrine inhibited muscle regeneration after BaCl₂-induced injury. Mechanistic experiments showed that tetrandrine decreased the p-mTOR level and increased the levels of LC3 and SQSTM1/p62 during differentiation. Ad-mRFP-GFP-LC3B transfection experiments revealed that the lysosomal quenching of GFP signals was suppressed by tetrandrine. Furthermore, the levels of DNM1L/Drp1, PPARGA1 and cytochrome C (Cyto C), as well as caspase 3 activation and ROS production, were decreased following tetrandrine administration, indicating that the mitochondrial network signaling was inhibited. Our results indicate that tetrandrine has dual effects on autophagic flux in myoblasts during differentiation, activation in the early stage and blockade in the late stage. The ultimate blocking of autophagic flux by tetrandrine led to the disruption of mitochondria remodeling and inhibition of myogenic differentiation. The inhibitory effects of tetrandrine on skeletal muscle differentiation may limit its application in advanced cancer patients. Thus, great attention should be paid to the clinical use of tetrandrine for cancer therapy.     

Identification and Functional Analysis of the Caffeic Acid O-Methyltransferase (COMT) Gene Family in Rice (Oryza sativa L.)

Caffeic acid O-methyltransferase (COMT) is one of the core enzymes involved in lignin synthesis. However, there is no systematic study on the rice COMT gene family. We identified 33 COMT genes containing the methyltransferase-2 domain in the rice genome using bioinformatic methods and divided them into Group I (a and b) and Group II. Motifs, conserved domains, gene structure and SNPs density are related to the classification of OsCOMTs. The tandem phenomenon plays a key role in the expansion of OsCOMTs. The expression levels of fourteen and thirteen OsCOMTs increased or decreased under salt stress and drought stress, respectively. OsCOMTs showed higher expression levels in the stem. The lignin content of rice was measured in five stages; combined with the expression analysis of OsCOMTs and multiple sequence alignment, we found that OsCOMT8, OsCOMT9 and OsCOMT15 play a key role in the synthesis of lignin. Targeted miRNAs and gene ontology annotation revealed that OsCOMTs were involved in abiotic stress responses. Our study contributes to the analysis of the biological function of OsCOMTs, which may provide information for future rice breeding and editing of the rice genome.     

用不对称醚作调节剂合成苯乙烯-异戊二烯-丁二烯橡胶的反应动力学

以苯乙烯(St)、异戊二烯(Ip)和丁二烯(Bd)为单体,正丁基锂(n-BuLi)为引发荆,乙基乙二醇叔丁基醚(BET)为结构调节剂,合成了线型无规结构的苯乙烯-异戊二烯-丁二烯橡胶(SIBR),进行了聚合反应动力学研究,并与以四氢呋喃(THF)为结构调节剂的体系进行了比较.结果表明,BET的加入提高了聚合反应速率;随反应温度的升高和BET/n-BuLi(摩尔比)的增大,聚合反应速率加快,尤其是St的反应速率提高显著;BET调节聚合速率的能力明显高于THF.