Ca(II) ions are added in the spinning dope to adjust the solidification rate of regenerated silk fibroin (RSF) solution during the wet-spinning process since Ca(II) ions are proved to be favorable to maintain th...
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Ca(II) ions are added in the spinning dope to adjust the solidification rate of regenerated silk fibroin (RSF) solution during the wet-spinning process since Ca(II) ions are proved to be favorable to maintain the stable silk fibroin network in our previous work. The results show that when Ca(II)/RSF ratios are 1/50 and 1/20, the resulted RSF fibers exhibit good performance with the breaking energy more than 70 kJ/kg. However, higher Ca(II)/RSF ratio (for example, 1/10) hinders the solidification of spinning dope and results in poor RSF fibers. These observations together with earlier papers from this laboratory confirm that to produce tough silk fibers the spinning conditions must allow sufficient time for the adjustment of silk fibroin molecular chains.
Titanium oxynitride (TiOxNy) was synthesized by reactive magnetron sputtering in a mixed N2/O2/Ar gas at ambient temperature. TiOxNy thin films with various amounts of nitrogen contents were deposited by varying the N...
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Cancer can affect various organs and occur in nearly every tissue in the body, which is one of the most challenging medical issues for handling [1]. The modern personal healthcare and pharmaceutical industries have ra...
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Cancer can affect various organs and occur in nearly every tissue in the body, which is one of the most challenging medical issues for handling [1]. The modern personal healthcare and pharmaceutical industries have raised some new concepts and requirements for the therapy of cancer, that is, it can be found at the early stages before the cancer metastasizes through the lymph systems and then the abnormal cells can be efficiently killed by chemotherapeutic agents [2, 3]. In this abstract, a preparation of biodegradable drug-loaded PMAA-PFH nanocapsules and the concept of ultrasound traced and triggered drug delivery system were described. Firstly, the uncrosslinked PMAA(u-PMAA) microspheres as the seeds were uniformlely coated with a new layer of disulfite-croslinked PMAA(d-PMAA) to form u-PMAA@d-PMAA core-shl sutrcture singby u distillation-precipitation polymerization. Secondly, the PMAA nanocapsules were prepared by dispersing u-PMAA@d-PMAA in ethanol to selectively dissolve u-PMAA. Thirdly, the anti-carcinogen DOX was loaded in shells of PMAA microbubbles through strong electrostatic interaction between the carboxyl groups of PMAA and the amino groups of DOX. Finally, the DOX-loaded PMAA nanocapsules were filled with the temperature sensitive perfluoropentane(PFH) in the inner cavities by a mild infusion procedure. When the PMAA-PFH nanocapsules were injected into animal vessel, the ultrasound energy could induce PFH into small bubbles to create strong imaging signal and increase the permeability of vessel to help drugs penetrate through vessel to tumor cells. While the nanocapsules entered cancer cells, the drug could be triggered and effectively released under ultrasound wave and glutathione(GSH) reduction condition. Meanwhile, the PMAA shells could be degraded into short polymer chains and release the loaded drug in the targeted cells. In comparison with previous reported ultrasound targeted drug release systems, our system has four advantages as following:(1)
Nanoribbon‐shaped nanocomposites composed of conjugated polymer poly(3‐hexylthiophene) (P3HT) nanoribbons and plasmonic gold nanorods (AuNRs) were crafted by a co‐assembly of thiol‐terminated P3HT (P3HT‐SH) nanof...
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Nanoribbon‐shaped nanocomposites composed of conjugated polymer poly(3‐hexylthiophene) (P3HT) nanoribbons and plasmonic gold nanorods (AuNRs) were crafted by a co‐assembly of thiol‐terminated P3HT (P3HT‐SH) nanofibers with dodecanethiol‐coated AuNRs (AuNRs‐DDT). First, P3HT‐SH nanofibers were formed due to interchain π–π stacking. Upon the addition of AuNRs‐DDT, P3HT‐SH nanofibers were transformed into nanoribbons decorated with the aligned AuNRs on the surface (i.e., nanoribbon‐like P3HT/AuNRs nanocomposites). Depending on the surface coverage of the P3HT nanoribbons by AuNRs, these hierarchically assembled nanocomposites exhibited broadened and red‐shifted absorption bands of AuNRs in nIR region due to the plasmon coupling of adjacent aligned AuNRs and displayed quenched photoluminescence of P3HT. Such conjugated polymer/plasmonic nanorod nanocomposites may find applications in fields, such as building blocks for complex superstructures, optical biosensors, and optoelectronic devices.
The calculations of electronic transport coefficients and optical properties require a very dense interpolation of the electronic band structure in reciprocal space that is computationally expensive and may have issue...
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The calculations of electronic transport coefficients and optical properties require a very dense interpolation of the electronic band structure in reciprocal space that is computationally expensive and may have issues with band crossing and degeneracies. Capitalizing on a recently developed pseudoatomic orbital projection technique, we exploit the exact tight-binding representation of the first-principles electronic structure for the purposes of (i) providing an efficient strategy to explore the full band structure En(k), (ii) computing the momentum operator differentiating directly the Hamiltonian, and (iii) calculating the imaginary part of the dielectric function. This enables us to determine the Boltzmann transport coefficients and the optical properties within the independent particle approximation. In addition, the local nature of the tight-binding representation facilitates the calculation of the ballistic transport within the Landauer theory for systems with hundreds of atoms. In order to validate our approach we study the multivalley band structure of CoSb3 and a large core-shell nanowire using the ACBN0 functional. In CoSb3 we point the many band minima contributing to the electronic transport that enhance the thermoelectric properties; for the core-shell nanowire we identify possible mechanisms for photo-current generation and justify the presence of protected transport channels in the wire.
By performing spatially resolved Raman and photoluminescence spectroscopy with different illumination conditions, we have achieved a unified understanding towards the spectroscopy signatures of the organic-inorganic h...
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By performing spatially resolved Raman and photoluminescence spectroscopy with different illumination conditions, we have achieved a unified understanding towards the spectroscopy signatures of the organic-inorganic hybrid perovskite, transforming from the pristine state (CH 3 NH 3 PbI 3 or MAPbI 3 ) to fully degraded state (i.e., PbI 2 ), for samples with varying crystalline domain size from mesoscopic scale to macroscopic size, synthesized by three different techniques.
Three-dimensional (3D) layer-by-layer graphene-gold nanorod (GNR) architecture has been constructed. The resulting hybrid nanomaterials' architecture has been tested for detecting hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) through ...
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