Separation of chiral enantiomers and the dissipation of rac-metolachlor and S-metolachlor in soil were evaluated using achiral high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) and chiral gas chromatography (GC) methods. ...Separation of chiral enantiomers and the dissipation of rac-metolachlor and S-metolachlor in soil were evaluated using achiral high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) and chiral gas chromatography (GC) methods. Under the experimental conditions the possible metabolite was considered to be N-(2-ethyl-6-methyl-phenyl)-2-hydroxy-acetamide. Because of the presence of two chiral elements (asymmetrically substituted carbon and chiral axis), the baseline separation of metolachlor enantiomers was not achieved. S-metolachlor degraded faster in soil than rac-metolachlor. After a 42-day incubation, 73.4% of rac-metolachlor and 90.0% of S-metolachlor were degraded. However, due to the absence of biological processes the degradation process in sterilized soil showed no enantioselectivity. The results indicated that enantioselective degradations could greatly affect the environmental fate of metolachlor and should be considered when the environmental behavior of these compounds was assessed.展开更多
Photodissociation dynamics of ketene at 218 nm has been investigated using the velocity map ion-imaging method. Both angular and translational energy distributions for the CO products at different rotational and vibra...Photodissociation dynamics of ketene at 218 nm has been investigated using the velocity map ion-imaging method. Both angular and translational energy distributions for the CO products at different rotational and vibrational states have been obtained. The 2+1 REMPI spectrum of CO products is also obtained. The results are as bellow: (i) CO products in the first two vibrational states ( v"=0 and v"=1 ) exhibit significant rotational excitation. Furthermore the rotational excitation of CO at the v"=0 level is noticeably higher than that at the v"=1 level. (ii) It was found that the major photodissociation pathway of ketene at 218 nm is the CH2(ǎ^1A1)+CO(X^1∑^+) channel, while the CH2(b^1B1)+CO(X^1∑^+) channel and the CH2(X^3B1)+CO(X^1E^+) channel are also likely present, (iii) The anisotropy parameters β of CO different rovibronic states all appear to be larger than zero. No significant difference is observed at the two vibrational states,展开更多
Surface charge, secondary adsorption- desorption and form distribution of Cu2+ and Zn2+ in Ultisols and Alfisols having adsorbed phosphate were studied by potentiometric titration, adsorption equilibrium and sequentia...Surface charge, secondary adsorption- desorption and form distribution of Cu2+ and Zn2+ in Ultisols and Alfisols having adsorbed phosphate were studied by potentiometric titration, adsorption equilibrium and sequential extraction method, respectively. The soil surface negative charges increased whereas the amount of positive charges decreased with increase of P adsorbed. The soil secondary adsorption capacity for Cu2+ and Zn2+ was positively significantly correlated with the amount of P adsorbed by the soils, which could be described by the Langmuir equation. The amounts of Cu2+ and Zn2+ desorption from soils were decreased after P adsorption by the soils and the relationship between them was linear. After the soils adsorbed P, form distribution of Cu2+ and Zn2+ in soils changed remarforbly.展开更多
To evaluate the role of kaolinite and variable charge soils on the hydrolytic reaction of Al, the hydrolysis of Al ions in suspensions of a kaolinite and an Oxisol influenced by organic anions was investigated using c...To evaluate the role of kaolinite and variable charge soils on the hydrolytic reaction of Al, the hydrolysis of Al ions in suspensions of a kaolinite and an Oxisol influenced by organic anions was investigated using changes of pH, Al adsorption, and desorption of pre-adsorbed Al. Kaolinite and the Oxisol promoted the hydrolytic reaction of Al above a certain initial Al concentration (0.1 mmol L-1 for kaolinite and 0.3 mmol L-1 for the Oxisol). The Al hydrolysis accelerated by kaolinite and the Oxisol increased with an increase in initial concentration of Al and was observed in the range of pH from 3.7 to 4.7 for kaolinite and 3.9 to 4.9 for the Oxisol. The acceleration of Al hydrolysis also increased with the increase of solution pH, reached a maximum value at pH 4.5, and then decreased sharply. Al hydrolysis was promoted mainly through selective adsorption for hydroxy-Al. Soil free iron oxides compensated a portion of the soil negative charge or masked some soil surface negative sites leading to a decrease in Al adsorption, which retarded acceleration to some extent. For the Oxisol organic anions increased the proportion of adsorbed Al3+ in total adsorbed Al with the increase in soil negative surface charge and eliminated or reduced the acceleration of Al hydrolysis. Different organic anions inhibited the hydrolysis of Al in the order: citrate > oxalate > acetate (under initial pH of 4.5). The formation of Al-organic complexes in solution also inhibited the hydrolysis of Al.展开更多
Effects of citrate and tartrate on phosphate adsorption and desorption from kaolinite, goethite, amorphous Al-oxide and Ultisol were studied. P adsorption was significantly decreased as the concentration of the organi...Effects of citrate and tartrate on phosphate adsorption and desorption from kaolinite, goethite, amorphous Al-oxide and Ultisol were studied. P adsorption was significantly decreased as the concentration of the organic anions increased from 10-5 to 10-1 M. At 0.1 M and pH 7.0, tartrate decreased P adsorption by 27.6% - 50.6% and citrate by 37.9 - 80.4%, depending on the kinds of adsorbent. Little Al and/ or Fe were detected in the equilibrium solutions, even at the highest concentration of the organic anions. Effects of the organic anions on phosphate adsorption follow essentially the competitive adsorption mechanism.The selectivity coefficients for competitive adsorption can be used to compare the effectiveness of different organic anions in reducing P adsorption under given conditions.Phosphate desorption was increased by 3 to 100 times in the presence of 0.001 M citrate or tartrate compared to that in 0.02 M KC1 solution alone. However, for all the soil and clay minerals studied the amount of P desorbed by citrate or tartrate was generally lower than or close to that of isotopically exchangeable P. The effect of organic anions on phosphate desorption arises primarily from ligand exchange.展开更多
The sonolytic degradation of 2-chlorobiphenyl was investigated. Mass spectroscopy was used to detect the products of sonolytic degradation of 2-chlorobiphenyl. The results show that the products of sonolytic degradati...The sonolytic degradation of 2-chlorobiphenyl was investigated. Mass spectroscopy was used to detect the products of sonolytic degradation of 2-chlorobiphenyl. The results show that the products of sonolytic degradation, such as biphenyl, ethyl benzene, diethylbiphenyl, dibutylbiphenyl, phenol, propylphenol and di-tert-butyl phenol are produced by thermolysis and hydroxyl free radical reactions, in which biphenyl counts for almost 40%(mole fraction) of the mother compound and others are at trace level. Rapid accumulation of chloride ion shows quick dechlorination, and 78% organic chlorine is converted into chloride ion. Free radical scavengers, bicarbonate and carbonate, decrease the reaction rate of sonolytic degradation of 2-chlorobiphenyl significantly, and the pseudo 1st order rate constant of sonolytic degradation of 2-chlorobiphenyl decreases linearly with the natural logarithm of the concentration of the added free radical scavenger, showing that the pyrolysis and hydroxyl free radical reaction are the two major pathways for the sonolytic degradation of 2-chlorobiphenyl, in which the hydroxyl radical concentration is estimated to be 1×10-10 (mol/L.)展开更多
Using first-principles calculations, we studied the interaction of methanol with the Pt(100) surface based on generalized gradient approximation. We found that top sites of Pt(100) surface are the favored adsorpti...Using first-principles calculations, we studied the interaction of methanol with the Pt(100) surface based on generalized gradient approximation. We found that top sites of Pt(100) surface are the favored adsorptive positions in energy, and methanol molecule interacts with the Pt surface through oxygen atoms. Moreover, we also explored the possible dissociation pathways of methanol on the Pt surface, and suggested that the products of dissociation can be controlled by the external manipulation.展开更多
A class of new doubly periodic wave solutions for (2+1)-dimensional KdV equation are obtained by introducing appropriate Jacobi elliptic functions and Weierstrass elliptic functions in the general solution(contain...A class of new doubly periodic wave solutions for (2+1)-dimensional KdV equation are obtained by introducing appropriate Jacobi elliptic functions and Weierstrass elliptic functions in the general solution(contains two arbitrary functions) got by means of multilinear variable separation approach for (2+1)-dimensional KdV equation. Limiting cases are considered and some localized excitations are derived, such as dromion, multidromions, dromion-antidromion, multidromions-antidromions, and so on. Some solutions of the dromion-antidromion and multidromions-antidromions are periodic in one direction but localized in the other direction. The interaction properties of these solutions, which are numerically studied, reveal that some of them are nonelastic and some are completely elastic. Furthermore, these results are visualized.展开更多
Abstract Goethite widely exists among ocean sediments; it plays an important role in fixing heavy metals and adsorbing organic contaminants. So the understanding of the adsorbing process of water molecule on its surfa...Abstract Goethite widely exists among ocean sediments; it plays an important role in fixing heavy metals and adsorbing organic contaminants. So the understanding of the adsorbing process of water molecule on its surface will be very helpful to further reveal such environmental friendly processes. The configuration, electronic properties and interaction energy of water molecules adsorbed on pnma goethite (010) surface were investigated in detail by using density functional theory on 6-31G (d,p) basis set and projec- tor-augment wave (PAW) method. The mechanism of the interaction between goethite surface and H20 was proposed. Despite the differences in total energy, there are four possible types of water molecule adsorption configurations on goethite (010) surface (Aa, Ab, Ba, Bb), forming coordination bond with surface Fe atom. Results of theoretical modeling indicate that the dissociation process of adsorbed water is an endothermic reaction with high activation energy. The dissociation of adsorbed water molecule is a proton transportation process between water's O atoms and surface. PDOS results indicate that the bonding between 1-120 and (010) surface is due to the overlapping of water's 2p orbitals and Fe's 3d orbitals. These results clarify the mechanism on how adsorbed water is dissociated on the surface of goethite and potentially provide useful information of the surface chemistry of goethite.展开更多
Ternary strategy has demonstrated great potential in promoting the power conversion efficiency(PCE)of bulk heterojunction organic solar cells(BHJ OSCs).Two new polymer donors,TPQ-2 F-2 Cl and TPQ-2 F-4 F,were synthesi...Ternary strategy has demonstrated great potential in promoting the power conversion efficiency(PCE)of bulk heterojunction organic solar cells(BHJ OSCs).Two new polymer donors,TPQ-2 F-2 Cl and TPQ-2 F-4 F,were synthesized with chlorinated and fluorinated aromatic side chains,respectively,which contributed to distinct noncovalent interactions.Compared with the PM 6:L 8-BO host system,the TPQ-2 F-2 Cl based ternary OSCs obtained enhanced exciton dissociation and more balanced carrier mobility.Moreover,benefiting from the favorable miscibility of the PM 6:L 8-BO:TPQ-2 F-2 Cl blend,the ternary blending film featured a well-defined fibrillar morphology and improved molecular ordering.Consequently,the optimal PM 6:L 8-BO:TPQ-2 F-2 Cl device achieved a more outstanding PCE of 18.2%,a higher open circuit voltage(V_(oc)),and a better fill factor(FF)in comparison with the binary device(PCE=17.7%).In contrast,the addition of TPQ-2 F-4 F would generate excessive aggregation of blend,thereby reducing the PCE of ternary OSCs(16.0%).This work shows a promising idea for designing efficient third component donor polymers.展开更多
A few soil microorganisms can convert insoluble forms of phosphorus (P) to an accessible form to increase plant yields The objectives of this study were to isolate, screen and identify the phosphobacteria, i.e., pho...A few soil microorganisms can convert insoluble forms of phosphorus (P) to an accessible form to increase plant yields The objectives of this study were to isolate, screen and identify the phosphobacteria, i.e., phosphate-solubilizing bacteria (PSB) and phosphate-mineralizing bacteria (PMB), in some poplar plantations and to select potential microbial inoculants that could increase the P uptake by plants. Seventy four PSB strains and 138 PMB strains were preliminarily screened from 797"colonies isolated from the rhizosphere soil of poplar by the visible decolorization in the National Botanical Research Institute's phosphate growth medium (NBRIP) containing a pH indicator of bromophenol and by the clear/halo zone on yeast malt agar plate, respectively. Then, based on the solubilization of Ca3(PO4)2 in liquid NBRIP medium and the mineralization of lecithin in liquid Menkina medium, 15 PS1R strains and 7 PMB strains were further determined for their abilities to solubilize Ca3(PO4)2 and to mineralize lecithin. The results showed that the 15 PSB strains exhibited inorganic P-solubilizing abilities ranging between 376.62 and 669.56 mg L-1 and the 7 PMB strains exhibited organic P-mineralizing abilities vaxying from 0.32 to 1.56 mg L-1 three days after incubation. Three of PSB strains with the highest P-solubilizing ability, named JW-JS1, JW-JS2 and JW-SX2, were all preliminarily identified as Pseudomonas ftuorescens, while two of PMB strains with the highest P-mineralizing ability, named JYZ-SD1 and JYT-JS2, were preliminarily identified as Bacillus cereus and Bacillus subtilis, respectively. All the efficient PSB and PMB strains should be further studied under both pot culture and field conditions to test their beneficial effects on poplar.展开更多
Objective: Cancer-associated fibroblasts (CAFs) are one of the hallmarks of the cancer microenvironment. Recent evidence has indicated that CAFs are more competent in enhancing cancer cell growth and migration than...Objective: Cancer-associated fibroblasts (CAFs) are one of the hallmarks of the cancer microenvironment. Recent evidence has indicated that CAFs are more competent in enhancing cancer cell growth and migration than normal fibroblasts. However, the unique protein expression of CAFs has not been fully elucidated. This study aims to investigate the characterizations of colon CAFs by comparing the differential protein expression between CAFs and normal fibroblasts. Methods: Primary fibroblasts were isolated from surgical specimen of human colon cancer and matched normal colonic tissue. Purity of the cell population was verified through immunostain analysis. Total cell lysates and conditioned media from each group of cells were extracted, and protein expression analysis was con- ducted using the surface-enhanced laser desorption/ionization time-of-flight mass spectrometry (SELDI-TOF-MS) ProteinChip platform. Results: Most primary cells showed typical fibroblast-like features after two weeks. Increased proportion of a-smooth muscle actin-positive myofibroblasts was detected within the CAFs in four of the six pairs of primary cells. Fibroblast activation protein was weakly expressed in most cells without differences. Using SELDI-TOF-MS ProteinChip platform, four protein peaks mass over charge ratio (m/z) 1142, 3011, 4035, and 4945 were detected in the total cell lysates, and two protein peaks m/z 1368 and 1389 were detected in the conditioned media. The potential candidate proteins found in the Swiss-Prot database include morphogenetic neuropeptides, FMRFamide-related peptides, insulin-like growth factor II, thymosin 13-4-like protein 3, and tight junction-associated protein 1. Conclusions: Using the SELDI-ProteinChip platform, differential protein expressions were identified in colon CAFs compared with normal colonic stromal fibroblasts. The complex proteomic alternations in colon CAFs may play important roles related to the colon cancer microenvironment.展开更多
基金Supported by the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars (No. 20225721) and the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 30270767).
文摘Separation of chiral enantiomers and the dissipation of rac-metolachlor and S-metolachlor in soil were evaluated using achiral high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) and chiral gas chromatography (GC) methods. Under the experimental conditions the possible metabolite was considered to be N-(2-ethyl-6-methyl-phenyl)-2-hydroxy-acetamide. Because of the presence of two chiral elements (asymmetrically substituted carbon and chiral axis), the baseline separation of metolachlor enantiomers was not achieved. S-metolachlor degraded faster in soil than rac-metolachlor. After a 42-day incubation, 73.4% of rac-metolachlor and 90.0% of S-metolachlor were degraded. However, due to the absence of biological processes the degradation process in sterilized soil showed no enantioselectivity. The results indicated that enantioselective degradations could greatly affect the environmental fate of metolachlor and should be considered when the environmental behavior of these compounds was assessed.
基金This work is suppotted by the Chinese Academy of Sciences,the Ministry of Science and Technology,and the National Natural Science Foundation of China.
文摘Photodissociation dynamics of ketene at 218 nm has been investigated using the velocity map ion-imaging method. Both angular and translational energy distributions for the CO products at different rotational and vibrational states have been obtained. The 2+1 REMPI spectrum of CO products is also obtained. The results are as bellow: (i) CO products in the first two vibrational states ( v"=0 and v"=1 ) exhibit significant rotational excitation. Furthermore the rotational excitation of CO at the v"=0 level is noticeably higher than that at the v"=1 level. (ii) It was found that the major photodissociation pathway of ketene at 218 nm is the CH2(ǎ^1A1)+CO(X^1∑^+) channel, while the CH2(b^1B1)+CO(X^1∑^+) channel and the CH2(X^3B1)+CO(X^1E^+) channel are also likely present, (iii) The anisotropy parameters β of CO different rovibronic states all appear to be larger than zero. No significant difference is observed at the two vibrational states,
基金Project (No. 49871043) supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China.
文摘Surface charge, secondary adsorption- desorption and form distribution of Cu2+ and Zn2+ in Ultisols and Alfisols having adsorbed phosphate were studied by potentiometric titration, adsorption equilibrium and sequential extraction method, respectively. The soil surface negative charges increased whereas the amount of positive charges decreased with increase of P adsorbed. The soil secondary adsorption capacity for Cu2+ and Zn2+ was positively significantly correlated with the amount of P adsorbed by the soils, which could be described by the Langmuir equation. The amounts of Cu2+ and Zn2+ desorption from soils were decreased after P adsorption by the soils and the relationship between them was linear. After the soils adsorbed P, form distribution of Cu2+ and Zn2+ in soils changed remarforbly.
基金Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 40271062).
文摘To evaluate the role of kaolinite and variable charge soils on the hydrolytic reaction of Al, the hydrolysis of Al ions in suspensions of a kaolinite and an Oxisol influenced by organic anions was investigated using changes of pH, Al adsorption, and desorption of pre-adsorbed Al. Kaolinite and the Oxisol promoted the hydrolytic reaction of Al above a certain initial Al concentration (0.1 mmol L-1 for kaolinite and 0.3 mmol L-1 for the Oxisol). The Al hydrolysis accelerated by kaolinite and the Oxisol increased with an increase in initial concentration of Al and was observed in the range of pH from 3.7 to 4.7 for kaolinite and 3.9 to 4.9 for the Oxisol. The acceleration of Al hydrolysis also increased with the increase of solution pH, reached a maximum value at pH 4.5, and then decreased sharply. Al hydrolysis was promoted mainly through selective adsorption for hydroxy-Al. Soil free iron oxides compensated a portion of the soil negative charge or masked some soil surface negative sites leading to a decrease in Al adsorption, which retarded acceleration to some extent. For the Oxisol organic anions increased the proportion of adsorbed Al3+ in total adsorbed Al with the increase in soil negative surface charge and eliminated or reduced the acceleration of Al hydrolysis. Different organic anions inhibited the hydrolysis of Al in the order: citrate > oxalate > acetate (under initial pH of 4.5). The formation of Al-organic complexes in solution also inhibited the hydrolysis of Al.
文摘Effects of citrate and tartrate on phosphate adsorption and desorption from kaolinite, goethite, amorphous Al-oxide and Ultisol were studied. P adsorption was significantly decreased as the concentration of the organic anions increased from 10-5 to 10-1 M. At 0.1 M and pH 7.0, tartrate decreased P adsorption by 27.6% - 50.6% and citrate by 37.9 - 80.4%, depending on the kinds of adsorbent. Little Al and/ or Fe were detected in the equilibrium solutions, even at the highest concentration of the organic anions. Effects of the organic anions on phosphate adsorption follow essentially the competitive adsorption mechanism.The selectivity coefficients for competitive adsorption can be used to compare the effectiveness of different organic anions in reducing P adsorption under given conditions.Phosphate desorption was increased by 3 to 100 times in the presence of 0.001 M citrate or tartrate compared to that in 0.02 M KC1 solution alone. However, for all the soil and clay minerals studied the amount of P desorbed by citrate or tartrate was generally lower than or close to that of isotopically exchangeable P. The effect of organic anions on phosphate desorption arises primarily from ligand exchange.
文摘The sonolytic degradation of 2-chlorobiphenyl was investigated. Mass spectroscopy was used to detect the products of sonolytic degradation of 2-chlorobiphenyl. The results show that the products of sonolytic degradation, such as biphenyl, ethyl benzene, diethylbiphenyl, dibutylbiphenyl, phenol, propylphenol and di-tert-butyl phenol are produced by thermolysis and hydroxyl free radical reactions, in which biphenyl counts for almost 40%(mole fraction) of the mother compound and others are at trace level. Rapid accumulation of chloride ion shows quick dechlorination, and 78% organic chlorine is converted into chloride ion. Free radical scavengers, bicarbonate and carbonate, decrease the reaction rate of sonolytic degradation of 2-chlorobiphenyl significantly, and the pseudo 1st order rate constant of sonolytic degradation of 2-chlorobiphenyl decreases linearly with the natural logarithm of the concentration of the added free radical scavenger, showing that the pyrolysis and hydroxyl free radical reaction are the two major pathways for the sonolytic degradation of 2-chlorobiphenyl, in which the hydroxyl radical concentration is estimated to be 1×10-10 (mol/L.)
文摘Using first-principles calculations, we studied the interaction of methanol with the Pt(100) surface based on generalized gradient approximation. We found that top sites of Pt(100) surface are the favored adsorptive positions in energy, and methanol molecule interacts with the Pt surface through oxygen atoms. Moreover, we also explored the possible dissociation pathways of methanol on the Pt surface, and suggested that the products of dissociation can be controlled by the external manipulation.
基金Foundation item: Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(10647112, 10871040) Acknowledgement The authors are in debt to thank the helpful discussions with Prof Qin and Dr A P Deng.
文摘A class of new doubly periodic wave solutions for (2+1)-dimensional KdV equation are obtained by introducing appropriate Jacobi elliptic functions and Weierstrass elliptic functions in the general solution(contains two arbitrary functions) got by means of multilinear variable separation approach for (2+1)-dimensional KdV equation. Limiting cases are considered and some localized excitations are derived, such as dromion, multidromions, dromion-antidromion, multidromions-antidromions, and so on. Some solutions of the dromion-antidromion and multidromions-antidromions are periodic in one direction but localized in the other direction. The interaction properties of these solutions, which are numerically studied, reveal that some of them are nonelastic and some are completely elastic. Furthermore, these results are visualized.
基金financial supports from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos.50673085,20677053)
文摘Abstract Goethite widely exists among ocean sediments; it plays an important role in fixing heavy metals and adsorbing organic contaminants. So the understanding of the adsorbing process of water molecule on its surface will be very helpful to further reveal such environmental friendly processes. The configuration, electronic properties and interaction energy of water molecules adsorbed on pnma goethite (010) surface were investigated in detail by using density functional theory on 6-31G (d,p) basis set and projec- tor-augment wave (PAW) method. The mechanism of the interaction between goethite surface and H20 was proposed. Despite the differences in total energy, there are four possible types of water molecule adsorption configurations on goethite (010) surface (Aa, Ab, Ba, Bb), forming coordination bond with surface Fe atom. Results of theoretical modeling indicate that the dissociation process of adsorbed water is an endothermic reaction with high activation energy. The dissociation of adsorbed water molecule is a proton transportation process between water's O atoms and surface. PDOS results indicate that the bonding between 1-120 and (010) surface is due to the overlapping of water's 2p orbitals and Fe's 3d orbitals. These results clarify the mechanism on how adsorbed water is dissociated on the surface of goethite and potentially provide useful information of the surface chemistry of goethite.
基金Projects(52125306,21875286)supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China。
文摘Ternary strategy has demonstrated great potential in promoting the power conversion efficiency(PCE)of bulk heterojunction organic solar cells(BHJ OSCs).Two new polymer donors,TPQ-2 F-2 Cl and TPQ-2 F-4 F,were synthesized with chlorinated and fluorinated aromatic side chains,respectively,which contributed to distinct noncovalent interactions.Compared with the PM 6:L 8-BO host system,the TPQ-2 F-2 Cl based ternary OSCs obtained enhanced exciton dissociation and more balanced carrier mobility.Moreover,benefiting from the favorable miscibility of the PM 6:L 8-BO:TPQ-2 F-2 Cl blend,the ternary blending film featured a well-defined fibrillar morphology and improved molecular ordering.Consequently,the optimal PM 6:L 8-BO:TPQ-2 F-2 Cl device achieved a more outstanding PCE of 18.2%,a higher open circuit voltage(V_(oc)),and a better fill factor(FF)in comparison with the binary device(PCE=17.7%).In contrast,the addition of TPQ-2 F-4 F would generate excessive aggregation of blend,thereby reducing the PCE of ternary OSCs(16.0%).This work shows a promising idea for designing efficient third component donor polymers.
基金Supported by the Program for Science and Technology Development of Jiangsu Province,China (No. BE2008393)the InnovationPlan for Graduate Students of Jiangsu Province,China (No. CX08B 028Z)the Public Welfare Scientific Special of State ForestryAdministration in China (No. 201004061)
文摘A few soil microorganisms can convert insoluble forms of phosphorus (P) to an accessible form to increase plant yields The objectives of this study were to isolate, screen and identify the phosphobacteria, i.e., phosphate-solubilizing bacteria (PSB) and phosphate-mineralizing bacteria (PMB), in some poplar plantations and to select potential microbial inoculants that could increase the P uptake by plants. Seventy four PSB strains and 138 PMB strains were preliminarily screened from 797"colonies isolated from the rhizosphere soil of poplar by the visible decolorization in the National Botanical Research Institute's phosphate growth medium (NBRIP) containing a pH indicator of bromophenol and by the clear/halo zone on yeast malt agar plate, respectively. Then, based on the solubilization of Ca3(PO4)2 in liquid NBRIP medium and the mineralization of lecithin in liquid Menkina medium, 15 PS1R strains and 7 PMB strains were further determined for their abilities to solubilize Ca3(PO4)2 and to mineralize lecithin. The results showed that the 15 PSB strains exhibited inorganic P-solubilizing abilities ranging between 376.62 and 669.56 mg L-1 and the 7 PMB strains exhibited organic P-mineralizing abilities vaxying from 0.32 to 1.56 mg L-1 three days after incubation. Three of PSB strains with the highest P-solubilizing ability, named JW-JS1, JW-JS2 and JW-SX2, were all preliminarily identified as Pseudomonas ftuorescens, while two of PMB strains with the highest P-mineralizing ability, named JYZ-SD1 and JYT-JS2, were preliminarily identified as Bacillus cereus and Bacillus subtilis, respectively. All the efficient PSB and PMB strains should be further studied under both pot culture and field conditions to test their beneficial effects on poplar.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos. 81000892, 81071801, and 30801341)the Research Fund for the Doctoral Program of Higher Education of China (No. 200803351107)
文摘Objective: Cancer-associated fibroblasts (CAFs) are one of the hallmarks of the cancer microenvironment. Recent evidence has indicated that CAFs are more competent in enhancing cancer cell growth and migration than normal fibroblasts. However, the unique protein expression of CAFs has not been fully elucidated. This study aims to investigate the characterizations of colon CAFs by comparing the differential protein expression between CAFs and normal fibroblasts. Methods: Primary fibroblasts were isolated from surgical specimen of human colon cancer and matched normal colonic tissue. Purity of the cell population was verified through immunostain analysis. Total cell lysates and conditioned media from each group of cells were extracted, and protein expression analysis was con- ducted using the surface-enhanced laser desorption/ionization time-of-flight mass spectrometry (SELDI-TOF-MS) ProteinChip platform. Results: Most primary cells showed typical fibroblast-like features after two weeks. Increased proportion of a-smooth muscle actin-positive myofibroblasts was detected within the CAFs in four of the six pairs of primary cells. Fibroblast activation protein was weakly expressed in most cells without differences. Using SELDI-TOF-MS ProteinChip platform, four protein peaks mass over charge ratio (m/z) 1142, 3011, 4035, and 4945 were detected in the total cell lysates, and two protein peaks m/z 1368 and 1389 were detected in the conditioned media. The potential candidate proteins found in the Swiss-Prot database include morphogenetic neuropeptides, FMRFamide-related peptides, insulin-like growth factor II, thymosin 13-4-like protein 3, and tight junction-associated protein 1. Conclusions: Using the SELDI-ProteinChip platform, differential protein expressions were identified in colon CAFs compared with normal colonic stromal fibroblasts. The complex proteomic alternations in colon CAFs may play important roles related to the colon cancer microenvironment.