Comprehensive treatment of latex wastewater and resource utilization of concentrated liquid

Latex wastewater is a kind of refractory organic wastewater containing high concentrations of organics and ammonia nitrogen.In this work,the combined process of forward osmosis(FO)and reverse osmosis(RO)was designed to treat the latex wastewater in the whole process,achieving the water recovery rate of 99%and basically no waste discharge after the catalytic oxidation process.The turbidity of the latex wastewater was decreased to below 1 NTU by microfiltration pretreatment,and then using MgCl_2 worked as the draw solution for FO process to treat the latex wastewater.Different operation conditions including adding acid or scale inhibitor as the pretreatment methods were conducted to improve the treatment performance of the combined process.After the treatment of the whole process,the concentration of COD was less than 20 mg·L^(-1),the concentration of NH_3-N was less than 10 mg·L^(-1),and the concentration of TP was less than 0.5 mg·L^(-1)for the treated latex wastewater.The water quality met standards of industrial water reuse after the complete analysis of the treated latex wastewater,meanwhile,useful substances of L-Quebrachitol(L-Q)were successfully extracted from the concentrated solution.Therefore,the combined process of FO and RO could realize the efficient treatment and reuse of latex wastewater,which provided with some important guidance on the industrial application.

Hollow copper sulfide nanoparticles carrying ISRIB for the sensitized photothermal therapy of breast cancer and brain metastases through inhibiting stress granule formation and reprogramming tumor-associated macrophages

As known,the benefits of photothermal therapy(PTT)are greatly limited by the heat tolerance of cancer cells resulting from overexpressed heat shock proteins(HSPs).Then HSPs further trigger the formation of stress granules(SGs)that regulate protein expression and cell viability under various stress conditions.Inhibition of SG formation can sensitize tumor cells to PTT.Herein,we developed PEGylated pH(low)insertion peptide(PEG-pHLIP)-modified hollow copper sulfide nanoparticles(HCuS NPs)encapsulating the SG inhibitor ISRIB,with the phase-change material lauric acid(LA)as a gatekeeper,to construct a pH-driven and NIR photo-responsive controlled smart drug delivery system(IL@H-PP).The nano medicine could specifically target slightly acidic tumor sites.Upon irradiation,IL@H-PP realized PTT,and the light-controlled release of ISRIB could effectively inhibit the formation of PTT-induced SG to sensitize tumor cells to PTT,thereby increasing the antitumor effect and inducing potent immunogenic cell death(ICD).Moreover,IL@H-PP could promote the production of reactive oxygen species(ROS)by tumor-associated macrophages(TAMs),repolarizing them towards the M1 phenotype and remodeling the immunosuppressive microenvironment.In vitro/vivo results revealed the potential of PTT combined with SG inhibitors,which provides a new paradigm for antitumor and antimetastases.