Numerical Modelling of Electroosmotic Driven Flow in Nanoporous Media by Lattice Boltzmann Method

The lattice Boltzmann method was employed to simulate electroosmotic driven flow and Debye layer screening in conducting electrolyte around a porous structure with average size of 40 nm. The charge screening around the nanopores was investigated by solving the vector-superpositioned potential equilibrium distribution function and adding electro-kinetic force term to the evolution equation. In this intermediate case of moderate Debye length, the electrophoresis problem becomes complicated. The motion of the particles distorts the screening cloud, which becomes asymmetric, resulting in very complex interactions between the electrolyte, the screening cloud and the particle; but the Electroosmotic Flow (EOF) behaviour was still considered based on the Helmoholtz-Smoluchowski model with adaptation to fit nanoporous flow in the porous structure. In the present approach, the flow in the nanopores is directly modelled; the detailed flow information can be obtained by simplifying the repeated macrostructure. Due to the symmetry of the domain, the size of computational domain can be largely reduced by less repeated spherical nanoparticles. Each pore of the medium contains several lattice nodes on the simplified curved edges and potential gradients are produced by adjusting the zeta potential value. The velocity results for pressure-driven and EOF flows agree well with the analytical solutions and recent experimental results. In particular, the interface between solid particles and fluids, the influences of porosity, solid particle diameter, yield stress and electric parameters in EOF were investigated. The anti-adhesion effect of electroosmotic pumping effect was evaluated, and the pulsed DC was applied in order to enhance the performance of the electroosmotic pumping. The results demonstrate that the present lattice Boltzmann model is capable of modelling flow through nanoporous media at certain restrictions while some results deviate from the predictions based on the macroscopic theories.     

3D Modelling of Biological Systems for Biomimetics

1　IntroductionBasedonthereviewofthepreviousworkof 3Dgeometricalmodellingtechniquesandsystemsdevelopedforindustrial,medicalandanimationapplications,thispaperdiscussestheproblemsassociatedwiththeexist ingtechniquesandsystems ,especiallywhenappliedto3Dmodellingof plants ,insectsandanimalsforbiomimeticsresearchanddevelopment .Then ,paperproposessomeareasofresearchinterestsin 3Dmod ellingofplants ,insectsandanimalsforBiomimetics .Toavoidtherepeating ,inthispaper ,biologicalobjectswillbeusedtorep…     

Recent Advances in Computational Simulation of Macro-, Meso-, and Micro-Scale Biomimetics Related Fluid Flow Problems

Over the last decade, computational methods have been intensively applied to a variety of scientific researches and engineering designs. Although the computational fluid dynamics （CFD） method has played a dominant role in studying and simulating transport phenomena involving fluid flow and heat and mass transfers, in recent years, other numerical methods for the simulations at meso- and micro-scales have also been actively applied to solve the physics of complex flow and fluid-interface interactions. This paper presents a review of recent advances in multi-scale computational simulation of biomimetics related fluid flow problems. The state-of-the-art numerical techniques, such as lattice Boltzmann method （LBM）, molecular dynamics （MD）, and conventional CFD, applied to different problems such as fish flow, electro-osmosis effect of earthworm motion, and self-cleaning hydrophobic surface, and the numerical approaches are introduced. The new challenging of modelling biomimetics problems in developing the physical conditions of self-clean hydrophobic surfaces is discussed.     

谷氨酸传感器及在流动注射分析中的应用

利用谷氨酸氧化酶(简称GO)共价偶联于硅烷化铂化铂丝(Φ0．5mm)表面。构建一种简单的微酶电极,该电极具有良好的操作性能;应用于流动注射分析系统(FIA),可用来测量谷氨酸含量,测量范围。0－2．0mmo1/L,精度(CV为o．4％)、响应时间小于60秒,使用寿命大于20天,实际测量发酵液中各氨酸含量,回收率为98．7％一107．5％。     

Numerical Simulation of Electroosmotic Flow near Earthworm Surface

1 Introduction Earthworms could hold the answer to sticky engineering problems. If we move machinery through moist soil, adhesive forces between the soil and the machinery make the soil stick, causing resistance, increasing energy consumption and reducing the quality of the work. However, soil does not seem to adhere to earthworm surface. Other possible mechanisms of anti-adhesion such as the surface secretions of soil animals and the chemical compositions, their surface/body flexibilities, ha…     

介绍一种建立池塘能流模型的方法

系统生态学是对生物群落的生存、成长和死亡进行宏观研究。其系统方法论有多种处理问题的方法,特别是框图模型的应用尤其广泛,如在海洋、经济、城市、水体和陆地生态系统均有应用,但仅局限于画画框图讨论而已,并没有指出其应用的实际意义。还有一种系统动力学框图,属臆造模型。     

Optimal Fluoridation: The Concept and Its Application to Municipal Water Fluoridation

Optimal fluoridation has been defined as that fluoride exposure which confers maximal cariostasis with minimal toxicity and its values have been previously determined to be 0.5 to 1 mg per day for infants and 1 to 1.5 mg per day for an average child.Total fluoride ingestion and urine excretion were studied in Marin County, California, children in 1973 before municipal water fluoridation. Results showed fluoride exposure to be higher than anticipated and fulfilled previously accepted criteria for optimal fluoridation. Present and future water fluoridation plans need to be reevaluated in light of total environmental fluoride exposure.     

Thermodynamic Approach to Evaluate the Criticality of Raw Materials and Its Application through a Material Flow Analysis in Europe

This paper makes a review of current raw material criticality assessment methodologies and proposes a new approach based on the second law of thermodynamics. This is because conventional methods mostly focus on supply risk and economic importance leaving behind relevant factors, such as the physical quality of substances. The new approach is proposed as an additional dimension for the criticality assessment of raw materials through a variable denoted “thermodynamic rarity,” which accounts for the exergy cost required to obtain a mineral commodity from bare rock, using prevailing technology. Accordingly, a given raw material will be thermodynamically rare if it is: (1) currently energy intensive to obtain and (2) scarce in nature. If a given commodity presents a high risk in two of the three dimensions (economic importance, supply risk, and thermodynamic rarity), it is proposed to be critical. As a result, a new critical material list is presented, adding to the 2014 criticality list of the European Commission (EC) Li, Ta, Te, V, and Mo. With this new list and using Sankey diagrams, a material flow analysis has been carried out for Europe (EU‐28) for 2014, comparing the results when using tonnage and thermodynamic rarity as units of measure. Through the latter, one can put emphasis on the quality and not only on the quantity of minerals traded and domestically produced in the region, thereby providing a tool for improving resource management.     

Comparison Between Tidally Driven Groundwater Flow and Flushing of Animal Burrows in Tropical Mangrove Swamps

Tidal groundwater in a mangrove swamp can return to the mangrove creek by one of two mechanisms: (a) it can either flow through the swamp soil due to the water table difference between the creek and the groundwater in the swamp; or (b) it can flow via tidal flushing of animal burrows. This paper compares the magnitude of these two mechanisms for different regions of a mangrove swamp. Direct groundwater flow rates resulting from water stored in the sediment as a consequence of infiltration, especially during and after tidal inundation, were calculated for every square meter in the surface of a mangrove forest from piezometer data. Flow rates of water due to burrow flushing were determined based on published surveys, by estimating the burrow volume and the percentage of the burrow water that is flushed at each tidal inundation. Although direct groundwater flux was found to decrease further away from the creek compared to close to the creek, it was also found to have a similar range as burrow flushing flow. Specifically, direct groundwater flow ranged from 0.004 to 0.04 m³/m²/day, whilst burrow flushing flux ranged from 0.01 to 0.04 m³/m²/day.Considering the errors involved in the experiments and calculations, these ranges can be considered as being the same and neither of the two processes can be considered as negligible compared to the other. As a consequence, surveys of groundwater processes in mangrove areas, and more generally in swamp and tidal areas where animal burrows are present, will need to consider both mechanisms. Investigations of the influence over flushing mechanisms of different residence times of the water in burrows and in the sediment body would also be recommended in order to establish salt and nutrient budget in mangrove swamps.     

Plants and Animals as Concept Generators for the Development of Biomimetic Cable Entry Systems

Many animals and plants have high potential to serve as concept generators for developing biomimetic materials and structures. We present some ideas based on structural and functional properties of plants and animals that led to the development of two types ofbiomimetic cable entry systems. Those systems have been realized on the level of functional demonstrators.     

固定化尿酸酶丝素膜的性质及其尿酸传感器

应用电化学分析法对固定化酶丝素膜的性质进行了分析,结果表明这种酶经丝素膜固定后,活性得率高、性能稳定、能长期存放.用这种酶膜和氧电极等组成的流动注射分析式尿酸传感器对生物样品进行的百次重复分析结果表明,这种传感器的重现性良好,每小时能分析60个人血清样品.     

作物生长模拟模型研究和应用

作物生长模拟模型研究和应用宇振荣（北京农业大学农业生态环境系,１０００９４）ＳｔｕｄｉｅｓｏｎＣｒｏｐＧｒｏｗｔｈＭｏｄｅｌｌｉｎｇａｎｄＩｔｓＡｐｐｌｉｃａｔｉｏｎ．￥ＹｕＺｈｅｎｒｏｎｇ（ＤｅｐａｒｔｍｅｎｔｏｆＡｇｒｏ－Ｅ－ｃｏｌｏｇｉｃａｌＥ...     

试纸条技术在转基因农作物检测中的应用

简述了试纸条技术的基本原理及试纸条技术在转基因农作物检测中的优势与不足 ,并对试纸条技术对转基因农作物检测的应用进行了展望。     

Steady Flow Visualization in a Rigid Model of the Aortic Bifurcation: Application to Atherosclerosis

Hemodynamics have long been implicated in atherogenesis. The studiesreported here seek to explain the mechanisms for the formation ofatherosclerotic plaque in an aortic bifurcation. Flow studies were made ina model constructed from plexiglass to represent an aortic bifurcation. Under steady flow conditions at inflow Reynolds numbers of 80–1250,the streamline flow patterns and the boundary layer separation zones wereinvestigated in relation to the location of atherosclerotic plaques clinicallyfound at regions in the human aortic bifurcation. The streamline flowswere visualized by a slow injection of dye over the cross section of the tubeentrance and along the tube walls. The studies revealed a complex flowfield where secondary flows, induced by the centrifugal and viscous forces,cause the fluid to move towards the inner walls of the aortic bifurcation. The effect was more clearly seen with increasing Reynolds number. Boundary layer separation zones were observed to occur at the outercorners of the branching. The nature of the separation zone formed wasfound to be dependent on Reynolds number. The residence time of fluidparticles within such a separation zone was estimated by measuring thewashout time of a bolus of dye injected at strategic locations along the tubewalls. The residence time was found to decrease exponentially withincreasing Reynolds number. These observations provide strong support forthe role of flow separation in the accumulation of LDL and plateletaggregation within the aortic bifurcation.     

Mass and Energy Transport Through Slit Pores: Application to Planar Poiseuille Flow

Abstract

We develop a simple, efficient and general statistical mechanical technique for calculating the pressure tensor and the heat flux vector in atomic fluids. The method is applied to the case of planar Poiseuille flow through a narrow slit pore and the results indicate that our technique is accurate and relatively efficient. A second method to calculate shear stress is derived from the momentum continuity equation. This mesoscopic method again is seen to be accurate with good computational efficiency.

We also find that the commonly used approximation to the Irving-Kirkwood expression for the heat flux and the pressure tensor (where the Irving-Kirkwood O_ij operator is set equal to unity-the so-called IK1 approximation), leads to incorrect results for highly inhomogeneous fluids. In such cases the pressure tensor and heat flux vector display spurious oscillations.

We calculate the spatially dependent viscosity across a narrow pore and find that it exhibits real but weak oscillations, a consequence of oscillations in the number density. Finally we point out that if the heat flux vector is coupled to the gradient of the square of the strain rate tensor such an effect will only affect the shape of the temperature profile. For planar Poiseuille flow, the temperature profile should deviate from the classical quartic form and include an additional quadratic component. The actual magnitude and shape of the heat flux vector remain exactly as they would if such a coupling did not exist.     

抗心型脂肪酸结合蛋白单克隆抗体制备、鉴定和在侧向免疫层析方法中的应用

目的:制备抗心型脂肪酸结合蛋白(H-FABP)单克隆抗体(mAb),并建立侧向免疫层析方法检测血浆中H-FABP。方法:用H-FABP蛋白免疫纯系Balb/c小鼠,采用杂交瘤技术建立能稳定分泌抗人H-FABP的单克隆杂交瘤细胞株。常规制备腹水,纯化后得到特异性抗H-FABP单克隆抗体,进行效价、特异性、亲和力的鉴定分析,并在ELISA平台进行抗体配对,用所筛选到的抗体对初步建立了检测H-FABP的侧向免疫层析方法。结果:成功获得12株稳定分泌抗体的阳性细胞株,并筛选出能相互配对,并应用于侧向免疫层析平台的抗体3D1和5F4,检测临床样品与对照试剂比较总符合率为100%。结论:筛选能稳定分泌抗体的细胞株,配对抗体应用于侧向免疫层析检测方法中,能快速、特异、灵敏的检测出临床样品中H-FABP,为临床应用快速检测H-FABP指标提供了方法和关键材料。     

Application of the empirical force field to macrocyclic ion carriers,siderophores, and biomimetic analogs

The empirical force field (EFF), developed by Prof. Lifson, was applied to the study of macrocyclic alkali ion carriers and to di- and tripodal and open chain siderophores and synthetic biomimetic molecules binding transition metals. The highly symmetric nature of these structures facilitated a favorable coordination geometry of the ligating groups about the metal, which helped organize the entire molecule into a fairly rigid structure. In our combined experimental-theoretical approach, EFF calculations were used to help predict likely candidates to synthesize, and provided a wealth of structural data to complement what we learned from the spectroscopic measurements, while feedback from these measurements allowed us to continue improving the EFF itself. The simple, highly modular design of the biomimetic analogs allowed rapid synthesis and systematic examination of a large number of related structures, as well as facilitating an efficient, piecewise conformational scanning for the theoretical calculations. In the early years, we focused on macrocyclic polylactones and lactams binding monovalent alkali ions, particularly the natural products enniatin and valinomycin, including inside a crystal lattice. Later we switched to bi- and tridentate siderophores, natural microbial iron carriers, and synthetic biomimetic analogs-in particular, of enterobactin, ferrichrome, and ferrioxamine B. Over the years a large number of biomimetic siderophores have been prepared, some active in a broad range of microorganisms while others are highly species specific. The results of this work have broad applications in many areas, including the design of novel drugs and antimicrobial agents, helical polymeric structures, and polynuclear metal complexes.     

类脂双层(BLM)概念及其实验进展——BLM的40年

类脂双层研究的动力是来自生物世界.虽然1961年首次报道生物体外的双层类脂膜（BLMs）自组装,但从Hooke (1672年)起,实验科学家一直在处理有关BLM类型的界面吸附现象.BLMs（或平面的类脂双层）已应用在许多方面,即从基础的膜生物物理学到实际的爱滋病研究,从通过水光分解的太阳能转换,到应用支持双层类脂膜(s-BLMs)的生物传感器的发展,到包括细胞凋亡（apoptosis）在内的光生物学.综述了类脂双层概念的起源及其实验进展,以及BLMs用作某些生物膜模型的最新研究.此外,简要描述近来有关通过s-BLMs来发展生物传感器的工作.