Fluorescent silk is fundamentally important for the development of future tissue engineering scaffolds.Despite great progress in the preparation of a variety of colored silks,fluorescent silk with enhanced mechanical ...Fluorescent silk is fundamentally important for the development of future tissue engineering scaffolds.Despite great progress in the preparation of a variety of colored silks,fluorescent silk with enhanced mechanical properties has yet to be explored.In this study,we report on the fabrication of intrinsically super-strong fluorescent silk by feeding Bombyx mori silkworm carbon nanodots(CNDs).The CNDs were incorporated into silk fibroin,hindering the conformation transformation,confining crystallization,and inducing orientation of mesophase.The resultant silk exhibited super-strong mechanical properties with breaking strength of 521.9±82.7 MPa and breaking elongation of 19.2±4.3%,improvements of 55.1%and 53.6%,respectively,in comparison with regular silk.The CNDs-reinforced silk displayed intrinsic blue fluorescence when exposed to 405 nm laser and exhibited no cytotoxic effect on cells,suggesting that multi-functional silks would be potentially useful in bioimaging and other applications.展开更多
Compared with other transition metal Mxene derived quantum dots(MQD_(S)),Ta-based Mxene quantum dots have good functionality,but Ta-based Mxene quantum dots and their applications have not been studied so far.In this ...Compared with other transition metal Mxene derived quantum dots(MQD_(S)),Ta-based Mxene quantum dots have good functionality,but Ta-based Mxene quantum dots and their applications have not been studied so far.In this paper,we report for the first time the synthesis of high fluorescence quantum yield(QY) N-doped Ta_(4)C_(3) quantum dots(N-MQDs) using Ta_(4)C_(3) quantum dots in acid reflux damaged Ta_(4)C_(3) nanosheets as precursors and ethylenediamine as nitrogen source.The prepared N-MQDs have excellent blue photoluminescence(PL) properties,particle size is only 2.60 nm,QY is up to 23.4%,and good stability.In addition,it has been reported that N-MQDs can be used as fluorescent probe for detection of Fe;and remote force sensing analysis In liquid ion sensing,N-MQDS shows a unique selective quenching of Fe;with a detection limit as low as 2 μmol/L,and has great potential as a fast and super-sensitive fluorescent probe for the detection of heavy ion.More importantly,in solid mechanics sensing,the introduction of N-MQDs into self-healing hydrogels can be developed into a fluorescent hydrogel that can be used for accurate remote force measurement and applied in the field of mechanical sensing analysis.Therefore,Ta-based N-MQDs show excellent potential in the field of fluorescence sensing,which provides a door for multi-dimensional sensing of new materials in the future.展开更多
基金sponsored by the National Key Research and Development Program of China(2016YFA0201700,2016YFA0201702)the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities(2232019A3-06,2232019D3-02)+2 种基金the National Key Research and Development Program of China(2018YFC1105800)the National Natural Science Foundation of China(21674018,51903045)the Shanghai Belt and Road Joint Laboratory of Advanced Fiber and Low-Dimension Materials(18520750400).
文摘Fluorescent silk is fundamentally important for the development of future tissue engineering scaffolds.Despite great progress in the preparation of a variety of colored silks,fluorescent silk with enhanced mechanical properties has yet to be explored.In this study,we report on the fabrication of intrinsically super-strong fluorescent silk by feeding Bombyx mori silkworm carbon nanodots(CNDs).The CNDs were incorporated into silk fibroin,hindering the conformation transformation,confining crystallization,and inducing orientation of mesophase.The resultant silk exhibited super-strong mechanical properties with breaking strength of 521.9±82.7 MPa and breaking elongation of 19.2±4.3%,improvements of 55.1%and 53.6%,respectively,in comparison with regular silk.The CNDs-reinforced silk displayed intrinsic blue fluorescence when exposed to 405 nm laser and exhibited no cytotoxic effect on cells,suggesting that multi-functional silks would be potentially useful in bioimaging and other applications.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 81972901)the Key R&D Plan of Chenzhou (No. ZDYF202008)+1 种基金the Discipline Leader Startup Fund of Huazhong University of Science and Technology Union Shenzhen Hospital (No. YN2021002)Science Foundation of China University of Petroleum,Beijing (Nos. 2462019QNXZ02, 2462019BJRC007)。
文摘Compared with other transition metal Mxene derived quantum dots(MQD_(S)),Ta-based Mxene quantum dots have good functionality,but Ta-based Mxene quantum dots and their applications have not been studied so far.In this paper,we report for the first time the synthesis of high fluorescence quantum yield(QY) N-doped Ta_(4)C_(3) quantum dots(N-MQDs) using Ta_(4)C_(3) quantum dots in acid reflux damaged Ta_(4)C_(3) nanosheets as precursors and ethylenediamine as nitrogen source.The prepared N-MQDs have excellent blue photoluminescence(PL) properties,particle size is only 2.60 nm,QY is up to 23.4%,and good stability.In addition,it has been reported that N-MQDs can be used as fluorescent probe for detection of Fe;and remote force sensing analysis In liquid ion sensing,N-MQDS shows a unique selective quenching of Fe;with a detection limit as low as 2 μmol/L,and has great potential as a fast and super-sensitive fluorescent probe for the detection of heavy ion.More importantly,in solid mechanics sensing,the introduction of N-MQDs into self-healing hydrogels can be developed into a fluorescent hydrogel that can be used for accurate remote force measurement and applied in the field of mechanical sensing analysis.Therefore,Ta-based N-MQDs show excellent potential in the field of fluorescence sensing,which provides a door for multi-dimensional sensing of new materials in the future.
