Achieving increasingly finely targeted drug delivery to organs,tissues,cells,and even to intracellular biomacromolecules is one of the core goals of nanomedicines.As the delivery destination is refined to cellular and...Achieving increasingly finely targeted drug delivery to organs,tissues,cells,and even to intracellular biomacromolecules is one of the core goals of nanomedicines.As the delivery destination is refined to cellular and subcellular targets,it is essential to explore the delivery of nanomedicines at the molecular level.However,due to the lack of technical methods,the molecular mechanism of the intracellular delivery of nanomedicines remains unclear to date.Here,we develop an enzyme-induced proximity labeling technology in nanoparticles(nano-EPL)for the real-time monitoring of proteins that interact with intracellular nanomedicines.Poly(lactic-co-glycolic acid)nanoparticles coupled with horseradish peroxidase(HRP)were fabricated as a model(HRP(+)-PNPs)to evaluate the molecular mechanism of nano delivery in macrophages.By adding the labeling probe biotin-phenol and the catalytic substrate H_(2)O_(2)at different time points in cellular delivery,nano-EPL technology was validated for the real-time in situ labeling of proteins interacting with nanoparticles.Nano-EPL achieves the dynamic molecular profiling of 740 proteins to map the intracellular delivery of HRP(+)-PNPs in macrophages over time.Based on dynamic clustering analysis of these proteins,we further discovered that different organelles,including endosomes,lysosomes,the endoplasmic reticulum,and the Golgi apparatus,are involved in delivery with distinct participation timelines.More importantly,the engagement of these organelles differentially affects the drug delivery efficiency,reflecting the spatial–temporal heterogeneity of nano delivery in cells.In summary,these findings highlight a significant methodological advance toward understanding the molecular mechanisms involved in the intracellular delivery of nanomedicines.展开更多
Electronic textiles hold the merits of high conformability with the human body and natural surrounding,possessing large market demand and wide application foreground in smart wearable and portable devices.However,thei...Electronic textiles hold the merits of high conformability with the human body and natural surrounding,possessing large market demand and wide application foreground in smart wearable and portable devices.However,their further application is largely hindered by the shortage of flexible and stable power sources with multifunctional designability.Herein,a free-standing ZnHCF@CF electrode(ZnHCF grown on carbon nanotube fiber)with good mechanical deformability and high electrochemical performance for aqueous fiber-shaped calcium ion battery(FCIB)is reported.Benefiting from the unique Ca^(2+)/H^(+)co-insertion mechanism,the ZnHCF@CF cathode can exhibit great ion storage capability within a broadened voltage window.By pairing with a polyaniline(PANI)@CF anode,a ZnHCF@CF//PANI@CF FCIB is successfully fabricated,which exhibits a desirable volumetric energy density of 43.2mWh cm^(-3)and maintains superior electrochemical properties under different deformations.Moreover,the high-energy FCIB can be harmoniously integrated with a fiber-shaped strain sensor(FSS)to achieve real-time physiological monitoring on knees during long-running,exhibiting great promise for the practical application of electronic textiles.展开更多
Extensive efforts have recently been devoted to the construction of aqueous rechargeable sodium-ion batteries(ARSIBs)for large-scale energy-storage applications due to their desired properties of abundant sodium resou...Extensive efforts have recently been devoted to the construction of aqueous rechargeable sodium-ion batteries(ARSIBs)for large-scale energy-storage applications due to their desired properties of abundant sodium resources and inherently safer aqueous electrolytes.However,it is still a significant challenge to develop highly flexible ARSIBs ascribing to the lack of flexible electrode materials.In this work,nanocube-like KNiFe(CN)6(KNHCF)and rugby balllike NaTi2(PO4)3(NTP)are grown on carbon nanotube fibers via simple and mild methods as the flexible binder-free cathode(KNHCF@CNTF)and anode(NTP@CNTF),respectively.Taking advantage of their high conductivity,fast charge transport paths,and large accessible surface area,the as-fabricated binder-free electrodes display admirable electrochemical performance.Inspired by the remarkable flexibility of the binder-free electrodes and the synergy of KNHCF@CNTF and NTP@CNTF,a high-performance quasi-solid-state fiber-shaped ARSIB(FARSIB)is successfully assembled for the first time.Significantly,the as-assembled FARSIB possesses a high capacity of 34.21 mAh cm?3 and impressive energy density of 39.32 mWh cm?3.More encouragingly,our FARSIB delivers superior mechanical flexibility with only 5.7%of initial capacity loss after bending at 90°for over 3000 cycles.Thus,this work opens up an avenue to design ultraflexible ARSIBs based on all binder-free electrodes for powering wearable and portable electronics.展开更多
The dependence of Brillouin gain spectrum(BGS)characteristics,including the Brillouin frequency shift(BFS)and the BGS bandwidth,on germanium concentration in large-mode-area Ge-doped passive fibers is investigated the...The dependence of Brillouin gain spectrum(BGS)characteristics,including the Brillouin frequency shift(BFS)and the BGS bandwidth,on germanium concentration in large-mode-area Ge-doped passive fibers is investigated theoretically and experimentally.The simulation results show that the BFS is inversely proportional to GeO_(2)concentration,and the BGS bandwidth initially increases with the augment of GeO_(2)concentration,and then decreases.The BGSs of four fibers with core diameters of 10μm and 20μm for different GeO_(2)concentrations are compared experimentally.Experimental results demonstrate that with the same core diameter,the variations of BFS and BGS bandwidths with GeO_(2)concentration accord with the simulation results.Additionally,the BGS characteristics of three large-mode-area passive fibers with diameters of 10μm,25μm,and 30μm are measured,which confirm that the increasing of the fiber diameters will cause the BGS bandwidth to broaden.We believe that these results can provide valuable references for modulating the high-power narrowlinewidth fiber lasers and Brillouin fiber amplifiers.展开更多
Contact angle is an essential parameter to characterize substrate wettability.The measurement of contact angle in experiment and simulation is a complex and time-consuming task.In this paper,an improved method of meas...Contact angle is an essential parameter to characterize substrate wettability.The measurement of contact angle in experiment and simulation is a complex and time-consuming task.In this paper,an improved method of measuring contact angle in multiphase lattice Boltzmann simulations is proposed,which can accurately obtain the real-time contact angle at a low temperature and larger density ratio.The three-phase contact point is determined by an extrapolation,and its position is not affected by the local deformation of flow field in the three-phase contact region.A series of simulations confirms that the present method has high accuracy and gird-independence.The contact angle keeps an excellent linear relationship with the chemical potential of the surface,so that it is very convenient to specify the wettability of a surface.The real-time contact angle measurement enables us to obtain the dynamic contact angle hysteresis on chemically heterogeneous surface,while the mechanical analyses can be effectively implemented at the moving contact line.展开更多
基金supported by Natural Science Foundation of Beijing Municipality(L212013)National Key Research and Development Program of China(No.2022YFA1206104)+2 种基金AI+Health Collaborative Innovation Cultivation Project(Z211100003521002)National Natural Science Foundation of China(81971718,82073786,81872809,U20A20412,81821004)Beijing Natural Science Foundation(7222020).
文摘Achieving increasingly finely targeted drug delivery to organs,tissues,cells,and even to intracellular biomacromolecules is one of the core goals of nanomedicines.As the delivery destination is refined to cellular and subcellular targets,it is essential to explore the delivery of nanomedicines at the molecular level.However,due to the lack of technical methods,the molecular mechanism of the intracellular delivery of nanomedicines remains unclear to date.Here,we develop an enzyme-induced proximity labeling technology in nanoparticles(nano-EPL)for the real-time monitoring of proteins that interact with intracellular nanomedicines.Poly(lactic-co-glycolic acid)nanoparticles coupled with horseradish peroxidase(HRP)were fabricated as a model(HRP(+)-PNPs)to evaluate the molecular mechanism of nano delivery in macrophages.By adding the labeling probe biotin-phenol and the catalytic substrate H_(2)O_(2)at different time points in cellular delivery,nano-EPL technology was validated for the real-time in situ labeling of proteins interacting with nanoparticles.Nano-EPL achieves the dynamic molecular profiling of 740 proteins to map the intracellular delivery of HRP(+)-PNPs in macrophages over time.Based on dynamic clustering analysis of these proteins,we further discovered that different organelles,including endosomes,lysosomes,the endoplasmic reticulum,and the Golgi apparatus,are involved in delivery with distinct participation timelines.More importantly,the engagement of these organelles differentially affects the drug delivery efficiency,reflecting the spatial–temporal heterogeneity of nano delivery in cells.In summary,these findings highlight a significant methodological advance toward understanding the molecular mechanisms involved in the intracellular delivery of nanomedicines.
基金partially supported by the Natural Science Foundation of Liaoning Province(2023-MS-115)the Large Instrument and Equipment Open Foundation of Dalian University of Technology+1 种基金the National Natural Science Foundation of China(22308261)funding from the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities,conducted at Tongji University。
文摘Electronic textiles hold the merits of high conformability with the human body and natural surrounding,possessing large market demand and wide application foreground in smart wearable and portable devices.However,their further application is largely hindered by the shortage of flexible and stable power sources with multifunctional designability.Herein,a free-standing ZnHCF@CF electrode(ZnHCF grown on carbon nanotube fiber)with good mechanical deformability and high electrochemical performance for aqueous fiber-shaped calcium ion battery(FCIB)is reported.Benefiting from the unique Ca^(2+)/H^(+)co-insertion mechanism,the ZnHCF@CF cathode can exhibit great ion storage capability within a broadened voltage window.By pairing with a polyaniline(PANI)@CF anode,a ZnHCF@CF//PANI@CF FCIB is successfully fabricated,which exhibits a desirable volumetric energy density of 43.2mWh cm^(-3)and maintains superior electrochemical properties under different deformations.Moreover,the high-energy FCIB can be harmoniously integrated with a fiber-shaped strain sensor(FSS)to achieve real-time physiological monitoring on knees during long-running,exhibiting great promise for the practical application of electronic textiles.
基金supported by the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities(No.020514380183)the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.51703241)+1 种基金the Key Research Program of Frontier Science of Chinese Academy of Sciences(No.QYZDB-SSW-SLH031)the Thousand Youth Talents Plan,and the Science and Technology Project of Nanchang(2017-SJSYS-008).
文摘Extensive efforts have recently been devoted to the construction of aqueous rechargeable sodium-ion batteries(ARSIBs)for large-scale energy-storage applications due to their desired properties of abundant sodium resources and inherently safer aqueous electrolytes.However,it is still a significant challenge to develop highly flexible ARSIBs ascribing to the lack of flexible electrode materials.In this work,nanocube-like KNiFe(CN)6(KNHCF)and rugby balllike NaTi2(PO4)3(NTP)are grown on carbon nanotube fibers via simple and mild methods as the flexible binder-free cathode(KNHCF@CNTF)and anode(NTP@CNTF),respectively.Taking advantage of their high conductivity,fast charge transport paths,and large accessible surface area,the as-fabricated binder-free electrodes display admirable electrochemical performance.Inspired by the remarkable flexibility of the binder-free electrodes and the synergy of KNHCF@CNTF and NTP@CNTF,a high-performance quasi-solid-state fiber-shaped ARSIB(FARSIB)is successfully assembled for the first time.Significantly,the as-assembled FARSIB possesses a high capacity of 34.21 mAh cm?3 and impressive energy density of 39.32 mWh cm?3.More encouragingly,our FARSIB delivers superior mechanical flexibility with only 5.7%of initial capacity loss after bending at 90°for over 3000 cycles.Thus,this work opens up an avenue to design ultraflexible ARSIBs based on all binder-free electrodes for powering wearable and portable electronics.
基金Project supported by the Key-Area Research and Development Program of Guangdong Province,China(Grant No.2018B090904001)the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant Nos.61805261,61405202,and 61705243)the Youth Innovation Promotion Association,Chinese Academy of Sciences(Grant No.2020252)。
文摘The dependence of Brillouin gain spectrum(BGS)characteristics,including the Brillouin frequency shift(BFS)and the BGS bandwidth,on germanium concentration in large-mode-area Ge-doped passive fibers is investigated theoretically and experimentally.The simulation results show that the BFS is inversely proportional to GeO_(2)concentration,and the BGS bandwidth initially increases with the augment of GeO_(2)concentration,and then decreases.The BGSs of four fibers with core diameters of 10μm and 20μm for different GeO_(2)concentrations are compared experimentally.Experimental results demonstrate that with the same core diameter,the variations of BFS and BGS bandwidths with GeO_(2)concentration accord with the simulation results.Additionally,the BGS characteristics of three large-mode-area passive fibers with diameters of 10μm,25μm,and 30μm are measured,which confirm that the increasing of the fiber diameters will cause the BGS bandwidth to broaden.We believe that these results can provide valuable references for modulating the high-power narrowlinewidth fiber lasers and Brillouin fiber amplifiers.
基金the Guangxi Bagui Scholar Teams for Innovation and Research Projectthe National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant Nos.12272100,81860635,and 12062005)。
文摘Contact angle is an essential parameter to characterize substrate wettability.The measurement of contact angle in experiment and simulation is a complex and time-consuming task.In this paper,an improved method of measuring contact angle in multiphase lattice Boltzmann simulations is proposed,which can accurately obtain the real-time contact angle at a low temperature and larger density ratio.The three-phase contact point is determined by an extrapolation,and its position is not affected by the local deformation of flow field in the three-phase contact region.A series of simulations confirms that the present method has high accuracy and gird-independence.The contact angle keeps an excellent linear relationship with the chemical potential of the surface,so that it is very convenient to specify the wettability of a surface.The real-time contact angle measurement enables us to obtain the dynamic contact angle hysteresis on chemically heterogeneous surface,while the mechanical analyses can be effectively implemented at the moving contact line.
