A novel method was developed for papain immobilization through a biomimetic silicification process induced by papain. By incubating papain in a silica precursor solution, the papain-silica composite formed rapidly and...A novel method was developed for papain immobilization through a biomimetic silicification process induced by papain. By incubating papain in a silica precursor solution, the papain-silica composite formed rapidly and oanain was encansulated. The encansulation efficiency and the recovery activity were 82.60% and 83.09%, re-spectively. Compared with enzymes and biomolecules immobilized in biosilica matrix in the presence of additaonal silica-precipitating species, this papaln encapsulation process, a biomimetic approach, realized high encapsulation efficiency by its autosilification activity under mild conditions （near-neutral pH and ambient temperature）. Fur-thermore, the encapsulated papain exhibits enhanced thermal, pH, recycling and storage stabilities. Kinetic analysis showed that the biomimetic silica matrix did not significantly hinder the mass transport of substrate or the release of product.展开更多
A new synthetic strategy has been developed to encapsulate supported Pt nanoparticles in heterogeneous catalysts to prevent their sintering. Model catalysts were first prepared by dispersing -3-nm Pt nanoparticles on ...A new synthetic strategy has been developed to encapsulate supported Pt nanoparticles in heterogeneous catalysts to prevent their sintering. Model catalysts were first prepared by dispersing -3-nm Pt nanoparticles on -120-nm silica beads. These were then covered with a fresh layer of mesoporous silica, a few tens of nanometers thick, and etched to re-expose the metal surface to the reaction mixtures. TEM images were used to confirm the success of each of the synthesis steps, and both CO titrations and kinetic measurements for the catalytic conversion of cis- and trans-2-butenes with hydrogen were employed to test the degree of re-activation of the catalyst obtained after the etching treatment, which had to be tuned to give simultaneous maximum activity and maximum catalyst stability. The resulting encapsulated platinum nanoparticles were shown to resist sintering during calcination at temperatures as high as 1075 K, whereas the unprotected catalysts were seen to sinter by 875 K.展开更多
基金Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China （21006020, 21276060, 21276062）, the Natural Science Foundation of Hebei Province （B2010000035, B2011202095）, the Science and Technology Research Key Project of Higher School in Hebei Province （ZD2010118）, the Application Basic Research Plan Key Basic Research Project of Hebei Province （11965150D） and Open Funding Project of ~e National Key Laboratory ofBiochemi＇cal Engineering （China）.
文摘A novel method was developed for papain immobilization through a biomimetic silicification process induced by papain. By incubating papain in a silica precursor solution, the papain-silica composite formed rapidly and oanain was encansulated. The encansulation efficiency and the recovery activity were 82.60% and 83.09%, re-spectively. Compared with enzymes and biomolecules immobilized in biosilica matrix in the presence of additaonal silica-precipitating species, this papaln encapsulation process, a biomimetic approach, realized high encapsulation efficiency by its autosilification activity under mild conditions （near-neutral pH and ambient temperature）. Fur-thermore, the encapsulated papain exhibits enhanced thermal, pH, recycling and storage stabilities. Kinetic analysis showed that the biomimetic silica matrix did not significantly hinder the mass transport of substrate or the release of product.
文摘A new synthetic strategy has been developed to encapsulate supported Pt nanoparticles in heterogeneous catalysts to prevent their sintering. Model catalysts were first prepared by dispersing -3-nm Pt nanoparticles on -120-nm silica beads. These were then covered with a fresh layer of mesoporous silica, a few tens of nanometers thick, and etched to re-expose the metal surface to the reaction mixtures. TEM images were used to confirm the success of each of the synthesis steps, and both CO titrations and kinetic measurements for the catalytic conversion of cis- and trans-2-butenes with hydrogen were employed to test the degree of re-activation of the catalyst obtained after the etching treatment, which had to be tuned to give simultaneous maximum activity and maximum catalyst stability. The resulting encapsulated platinum nanoparticles were shown to resist sintering during calcination at temperatures as high as 1075 K, whereas the unprotected catalysts were seen to sinter by 875 K.
