Inhibitory effects of curcumin and piperine on fluorescent advanced glycation end products formation in a bovine serum albumin–fructose model

This study investigated the inhibitory effects of curcumin and piperine on fluorescent advanced glycation end products (fAGEs) formation in a bovine serum albumin (BSA)–fructose model. Model systems of BSA and fructose were prepared, and curcumin or piperine was added. fAGEs and BSA oxidation product (dityrosine, kynurenine and N'-formylkynurenine) contents were determined. The results showed that fAGEs content decreased with increasing concentration of curcumin and piperine (P < 0.05). Addition of curcumin and piperine at 160 µg mL⁻¹ could inhibit fluorescent AGEs by 100% and 93% respectively. Dityrosine and N'-formylkynurenine contents decreased as curcumin and piperine concentration increased (P < 0.05). Furthermore, the result of principal component analysis indicated that curcumin and piperine markedly impeded BSA oxidation, resulting in a lower level of fAGEs in model systems. Therefore, adding curcumin and piperine may facilitate reduced fAGEs levels in BSA–fructose model.     

Quantum Sensing in a Physiological‐Like Cell Niche Using Fluorescent Nanodiamonds Embedded in Electrospun Polymer Nanofibers

Fluorescent nanodiamonds (fNDs) containing nitrogen vacancy (NV) centers are promising candidates for quantum sensing in biological environments. This work describes the fabrication and implementation of electrospun poly lactic‐co‐glycolic acid (PLGA) nanofibers embedded with fNDs for optical quantum sensing in an environment, which recapitulates the nanoscale architecture and topography of the cell niche. A protocol that produces uniformly dispersed fNDs within electrospun nanofibers is demonstrated and the resulting fibers are characterized using fluorescent microscopy and scanning electron microscopy (SEM). Optically detected magnetic resonance (ODMR) and longitudinal spin relaxometry results for fNDs and embedded fNDs are compared. A new approach for fast detection of time varying magnetic fields external to the fND embedded nanofibers is demonstrated. ODMR spectra are successfully acquired from a culture of live differentiated neural stem cells functioning as a connected neural network grown on fND embedded nanofibers. This work advances the current state of the art in quantum sensing by providing a versatile sensing platform that can be tailored to produce physiological‐like cell niches to replicate biologically relevant growth environments and fast measurement protocols for the detection of co‐ordinated endogenous signals from clinically relevant populations of electrically active neuronal circuits.     

高压变频技术在油田注水系统中的应用与节能分析

油田注水系统的耗电量一般占整个油田生产耗电的40％-60％,因此降低注水系统的能耗可显著降低油田的生产成本。常规的通过调节阀门开启度来达到调节注水泵出口压力和流量的作法,会使很大一部分能量造成浪费,要解决这个问题,可以采取对注水泵进行调速的方法。文章论述了通过高压变频技术对注水泵进行调速,从而达到节能效果的基本原理;对一台恒速泵和一台变频调速泵并联运行时的效率进行了分析,并对应用实例进行了计算,注水站的效率比原来提高了9．04％,收到了显著的节能效果。     

荧光显示管直丝氧化物阴极有效逸出功的计算

阴极的逸出功是表征阴极发射能力的物理量，求定荧光显示管直丝氧化物阴极有效逸出功时，因其零场发射电流密度难于准确取值，温度无法直接测量，显得困难，须予解决，为此提出了一种计算阴极有产逸出功的办法，对某显示管的发射欠佳和“低温高效”的两种氧化物阴极的有效逸出功进行计算，有效逸出功率是靠测量相关物理量再同计算得出，精度不很高，文中所用办法也不例外，但所得结果能反映阴极发射能力，所需仪器少，是实用方法。     

80kt/a硫磺回收装置国产化设计

介绍了无在线炉硫回收工艺的基本原理、技术特点和催化剂使用情况。已投用的工业装置运行结果证明 ,用该工艺设计的硫磺回收装置 ,硫回收率和尾气净化度高 ,投资少 ,能耗低 ,流程简单 ,操作控制方便 ,社会效益和经济效益显著 ,适用于同类装置的新建和改扩建项目 ,市场前景广阔。     

一种构思新颖的抽油机设计方案

介绍了一种与现有抽油机结构完全不同的机 电一体化抽油机 ,它主要由往复滚筒提升总成、减速器总成、蓄能助启系统及电磁自动控制和动力系统组成。其特点是采用机 电一体化设计 ,充分利用飞轮的蓄能及与电磁自动控制器的相互配合来控制电磁离合器的激磁电流和电动机的电力输入 ,实现上冲程时通电、下冲程时断电的工作方式。该机体积小 ,结构紧凑 ,适应性强 ,能满足抽油井超长冲程和节能的要求     

Signal analysis of total internal reflection fluorescent speckle microscopy (TIR-FSM) and wide-field epi-fluorescence FSM of the actin cytoskeleton and focal adhesions in living cells

Fluorescent speckle microscopy (FSM) uses low levels of fluorescent proteins to create fluorescent speckles on cytoskeletal polymers in high‐resolution fluorescence images of living cells. The dynamics of speckles over time encode subunit turnover and motion of the cytoskeletal polymers. We sought to improve on current FSM technology by first expanding it to study the dynamics of a non‐polymeric macromolecular assembly, using focal adhesions as a test case, and second, to exploit for FSM the high contrast afforded by total internal reflection fluorescence microscopy (TIR‐FM). Here, we first demonstrate that low levels of expression of a green fluorescent protein (GFP) conjugate of the focal adhesion protein, vinculin, results in clusters of fluorescent vinculin speckles on the ventral cell surface, which by immunofluorescence labelling of total vinculin correspond to sparse labelling of dense focal adhesion structures. This demonstrates that the FSM principle can be applied to study focal adhesions. We then use both GFP‐vinculin expression and microinjected fluorescently labelled purified actin to compare quantitatively the speckle signal in FSM images of focal adhesions and the actin cytoskeleton in living cells by TIR‐FM and wide‐field epifluorescence microscopy. We use quantitative FSM image analysis software to define two new parameters for analysing FSM signal features that we can extract automatically: speckle modulation and speckle detectability. Our analysis shows that TIR‐FSM affords major improvements in these parameters compared with wide‐field epifluorescence FSM. Finally, we find that use of a crippled eukaryotic expression promoter for driving low‐level GFP‐fusion protein expression is a useful tool for FSM imaging. When used in time‐lapse mode, TIR‐FSM of actin and GFP‐conjugated focal adhesion proteins will allow quantification of molecular dynamics within interesting macromolecular assemblies at the ventral surface of living cells.     

立体车库二次调节提升系统的节能特性与转速控制

介绍了立体车库二次调节静液传动提升系统的工作原理、特点和节能特性，并进行了转速控制的试验研究，得出了应用二次调节技术能够回收和重新利用系统的制动动能和重力势能，减小系统装机容量。     

高扭曲向列液晶显示器件的特性研究

本文研究了高扭曲向列液晶显示器件（ＨＴＮＬＣＤ）（扭曲角９０～１８０°），此器件与扭曲向列液晶显示器件（ＴＮＬＣＤ）相比较，能够增加液晶显示器件扫描行数并改善视角特性，其制造技术与ＴＮ器件相似，具有很大的应用价值。     

高发射率节能涂料及其应用

讨论了高发射率涂料节能的条件，了一种在1000℃仍保持高发射率的优质涂料，并解决了涂料与金属基体的粘结工艺，用此涂料制成增强辐射电阻带和复合炉衬，得到的新炉比旧炉节能20－40％。