Heterogeneous Enzyme Mimics Based on Zeolites and Layered Hydroxides

Careful combination of a metal compound,a ligand and an inorganic support material leads to supramolecular catalysts that mimic the structural, organizational and functional aspects of enzyme activity.After discussing essential features of metalloenzyme-catalyzed reactions and coordination chemistry in inorganic hosts, we present examples of supramolecular materials selected from our own work that eventually resulted in useful catalysts for organic transformations in the liquid phase.     

Ca-P仿生人工骨材料的设计与制备

本文设计了用磷酸钙生物陶瓷制备仿生人工骨的工艺路线 ,从原料合成、材料成型和烧结等讨论了仿骨材料的制备方法     

Biomimetic Polymer Nanostructures by Injection Molding

The nanometer scale topography of self‐assembling structural protein complexes in animals is believed to induce favorable cell responses. An important example of such nanostructured biological complexes is fibrillar collagen that possesses a cross‐striation structure with a periodicity of 69 nm and a peak‐to‐valley distance of 4–6 nm. Bovine collagen type I was assembled into fibrillar structures in vitro and sedimented onto solid supports. Their structural motif was transferred into a nickel replica by physical vapor deposition of a small‐grained metal layer followed by galvanic plating. The resulting inverted nickel structure was found to faithfully present most of the micrometer and nanometer scale topography of the biological original. This nickel replica was used as a die for the injection molding of a range of different thermoplastic polymers. Total injection molding cycle times were in the range of 30–45 seconds. One of the polymer materials investigated, polyethylene, displayed poor replication of the biological nanotopographical motif. However, the majority of the polymers showed very high replication fidelity as witnessed by their ability to replicate the cross‐striation features of less than 5 nm height difference. The latter group of materials includes poly(propylene), poly(methyl methacrylate), poly(L ‐lactic acid), polycaprolactone, and a copolymer of cyclic and linear olefins (COC). This work suggests that the current limiting factor for the injection molding of nanometer scale topography in thermoplastic polymers lies with the grain size of the initial metal coating of the mold rather than the polymers themselves.

     

中孔二氧化硅薄膜的仿生制备技术

以薄膜的形式仿生制备二氧化硅中孔材料于1996年首次报道，最后，在其制备方法得以改进、分析和表征技术得以提高的基础上，所制备出的中孔薄膜不但具有很好的几何孔型，而且孔道有序排列的方向及膜的厚度均可在合成过程中进行调控，通过仿生制膜技术裁剪无机中孔膜的各种特性，可使它们广泛应用于对中相形态控制要求严格的催化及微电子领域。     

金属卟啉仿生催化剂进展

细胞色素P-450是一种生物体内催化分子氧氧化内源底物的单加氧酶,其活性片段的核心结构是金属卟啉络合物。人工合成的金属卟啉络合物可作为细胞色素P-450的有效模拟物,应用于烯烃、直链烷烃、环烷烃、芳烃、芳烃侧链、及各种杂原子等多种底物的催化氧化。人工合成的金属卟啉络合物可分为：对称型金属卟啉、非对称型金属卟啉、μ-氧代双核金属卟啉、负载型金属卟啉4大类。现以金属卟啉络合物的结构为线索,论述了结构与催化活性及稳定性的内在联系,重点介绍了近几年国内外金属卟啉仿生催化剂的氧化应用研究进展,及仿生催化氧化的工业化发展前景。     

Biomimetic Experimental Research on Hexapod Robot's Locomotion Planning

To provide hexapod robots with strategies of locomotion planning, observation experiments were operated on a kind of ant with the use of high speed digital photography and computer assistant analysis. Through digitalization of original analog video, locomotion characters of ants were obtained, the biomimetic foundation was laid for polynomial trajectory planning of multi-legged robots, which was deduced with mathematics method. In addition, five rules were concluded, which apply to hexapod robots marching locomotion planning. The first one is the fundamental strategy of multi-legged robots’ leg trajectory planning. The second one helps to enhance the static and dynamic stability of multi-legged robots. The third one can improve the validity and feasibility of legs’ falling points. The last two give criterions of multi-legged robots’ toe trajectory figures and practical recommendatory constraints. These five rules give a good method for marching locomotion planning of multi-legged robots, and can be expended to turning planning and any other special locomotion.     

Bioprinting a cell-laden matrix for bone regeneration: A focused review

Although many efforts have been made to regenerate the bone lesions, existing challenges can be mitigated through the development of tissue engineering scaffolds. However, the weak control on the microstructure of constructs, limitation in preparation of patient-specific and multilayered scaffolds, restriction in the fabrication of cell-laden matrixes, and challenges in preserving the drug/growth factors' efficacy in conventional methods have led to the development of bioprinting technology for regeneration of bone defects. So in this review, conventional 3D printers are classified, then the priority of the different types of bioprinting technologies for the preparation of the cell/growth factor-laden matrixes are focused. Besides, the bio-ink compositions, including polymeric/hybrid hydrogels and cell-based bio-inks are classified according to fundamental and recent studies. Herein, different effective parameters, such as viscosity, rheological properties, cross-linking methods, biodegradation biocompatibility, are considered. Finally, different types of cells and growth factors that can encapsulate in the bio-inks to promote bone repair are discussed, and both in vitro and in vivo achievement are considered. This review provides current and future perspectives of cell-laden bioprinting technologies. The restrictions and challenges are identified, and proper strategies for the development of cell-laden matrixes and high-performance printable bio-inks are proposed.     

Hydrogen bonding induced enhancement for constructing anisotropic sugarcane composite hydrogels

Anisotropic hydrogels are appealing with their merits of similar biochemical and structural properties to the biological tissues. However, the mechanical properties of current anisotropic hydrogels need to be further improved. Herein, three kinds of novel anisotropic poly(2-hydroxyethyl methacrylate) (pHEMA), poly(acrylamide) (pAM), and poly(acrylamide-co-acrylic acid) (p[AM-co-AA]) sugarcane composite hydrogels were prepared successfully by filling the hydrogel monomer precursor into porous aligned sugarcane nanofibers network and then performing subsequent free radical polymerization. The hydrogel matrix and sugarcane nanofibers network were combined closely together through hydrogen bonding interaction. The anisotropic sugarcane composite hydrogels exhibit good flexibility and elastic recovery properties upon encountering mechanical crimping and twisting. In typical case, the as-prepared pHEMA sugarcane composite hydrogel can exhibit high anisotropic tensile strength of 2.37 and 0.54 MPa, while differential tear strength of 0.36 and 0.78 N/mm, along the parallel and vertical nanofibers directions. Finally, anisotropic lubrication behaviors were found and investigated systematically for those three kinds of sugarcane composite hydrogels when water was used as lubricant. Our current work proposes a simple and universal strategy for developing bioinspired anisotropic functional composite matters such as artificial skin, flexible sensor, and cartilage lubrication materials.