The role of phoretic forces in the identification of particles acting as ice nuclei in mixed phase cloud is discussed. A method used to identify the effective ice nucleating particles is to sample ice crystals, which ...The role of phoretic forces in the identification of particles acting as ice nuclei in mixed phase cloud is discussed. A method used to identify the effective ice nucleating particles is to sample ice crystals, which are afterwards sublimated, and to examine the particles remaining after evaporation. The procedure takes into account only crystal with a maximum diameter of 20 μm, by assuming that small crystals do not scavenge aerosol during growth, and therefore that crystals contain only the effective nucleating particles. This assumption is questionable, however, as experiments have shown that even small ice crystals can scavenge aerosol. Another approach has been to compare the number and elemental composition of residual particles in small ice crystals and of aerosol near the cloud. By considering as example soot and black carbon aerosol, contradictory conclusions on their importance in the processes of ice nucleation have been reported in the literature. We suggest that, in addition to physico-chemical properties of soot/carbon aerosol particles, even the microphysical and environmental parameters involved in the transition of aerosol from gas phase to ice crystals in cloud should be considered. The contribution of phoretic forces should also be considered. After initial growth ice crystals can continue to grow by water vapour diffusion. Laboratory experiments confirm the contribution of diffusiophoresis with Stefan flow in the scavenging by snow crystals up to 3 mm in diameter. The particle scavenging efficiency of snow crystals is related to crystalline shape and depends on air relative humidity and temperature.展开更多
Scavenging experiments have been performed in a cloud chamber inside a cold room with different aerosol particles: Paraffin particles, NaCl particles, Magnesium oxide particles, Carbon particles, Sahara dust particles...Scavenging experiments have been performed in a cloud chamber inside a cold room with different aerosol particles: Paraffin particles, NaCl particles, Magnesium oxide particles, Carbon particles, Sahara dust particles. Essentially the experimental tests were carried on following the sequence of operations: the generation of the aerosol particles, their injection in the lower part of the cloud chamber, injection of water droplets in the whole chamber volume, nucleation of ice crystals, collection of ice crystals and their examination as for resulting scavenging efficiency. Evidence is given of the peculiar behaviour of soluble particles, individual and eventually inside mixed particles, leading to very much important scavenging efficiency, probably to be ascribed to aerodynamic capture. The evident peculiar behaviour of deliquescent particles can be oriented towards applications to an efficient abatement of specific effluents, on one side, and to weather modification experiments, both rain enhancement and hail prevention experiments.展开更多
Objective Phoresy represents a non-parasitic association between animals of different taxa related to transportation. Members of several pseudoscorpion families are phoretic. In pseudoscorpions, phoresy may or may not...Objective Phoresy represents a non-parasitic association between animals of different taxa related to transportation. Members of several pseudoscorpion families are phoretic. In pseudoscorpions, phoresy may or may not be associated with their predatory behavior, enabling dispersal over larger distances than they could manage with their own short legs. This provides a wide distribution, and a potential food supply.展开更多
目的:探讨核因子KB(NF-κB)抑制剂吡咯烷二硫代氨基甲酸盐(PDTC)对大鼠急性坏死性胰腺炎(ANP)的预防治疗作用。方法:大鼠80只随机分为正常对照组(Z)、胰腺炎组(Y)和干预纽.干预组又分为建模前1h PDTC干预组(A)、建模后1h PDTC干预组(B)...目的:探讨核因子KB(NF-κB)抑制剂吡咯烷二硫代氨基甲酸盐(PDTC)对大鼠急性坏死性胰腺炎(ANP)的预防治疗作用。方法:大鼠80只随机分为正常对照组(Z)、胰腺炎组(Y)和干预纽.干预组又分为建模前1h PDTC干预组(A)、建模后1h PDTC干预组(B)和建模后6h干预组(C).干预组按不同时间ip PDTC.建模后6,12,24 h分批处死,临床全自动生化仪检测血清谷丙转氨酶(ALT)和淀粉酶(AMY),用凝胶迁移率改变分析法(EMSA)测定胰腺和肝脏中NF-κB的活性.同时观察胰腺和肝脏的病理改变.结果:正常大鼠组织中几乎测不到NF-κB的活性,与Z组比较,Y组胰腺和肝脏组织中6,12,24 h NF-κB活性分别明显增加(P<0.001).建模前1h,1h后使用PDTC,胰腺和肝脏组织中NF-κB活性均受到抑制(18.14±3.30,23.79±3.62 vs 24.82±4.57:10.68±2.51,13.83±2.70 vs 16.38±2.50;P<0.05),Y组血清ALT,AMY均高于对照组.病理学检查可以见到Y组和A,B,C组的胰腺和肝脏均有炎性改变,但A组较Y组明显为轻.结论:NF-κB的异常活化与SAP以及肝损伤有明显关系:PDTC对SAP时肝损伤的发生有一定的预防作用.展开更多
Brownian motors and self-phoretic microswimmers are two typical micromotors,for which thermal fluctuations play different roles.Brownian motors utilize thermal noise to acquire unidirectional motion,while thermal fluc...Brownian motors and self-phoretic microswimmers are two typical micromotors,for which thermal fluctuations play different roles.Brownian motors utilize thermal noise to acquire unidirectional motion,while thermal fluctuations randomize the self-propulsion of self-phoretic microswimmers.Here we perform mesoscale simulations to study a composite micromotor composed of a self-thermophoretic Janus particle under a time-modulated external ratchet potential.The composite motor exhibits a unidirectional transport,whose direction can be reversed by tuning the modulation frequency of the external potential.The maximum transport capability is close to the superposition of the drift speed of the pure Brownian motor and the self-propelling speed of the pure self-thermophoretic particle.Moreover,the hydrodynamic effect influences the orientation of the Janus particle in the ratched potential,hence also the performance of the composite motor.Our work thus provides an enlightening attempt to actively exploit inevitable thermal fluctuations in the implementation of the self-phoretic microswimmers.展开更多
文摘The role of phoretic forces in the identification of particles acting as ice nuclei in mixed phase cloud is discussed. A method used to identify the effective ice nucleating particles is to sample ice crystals, which are afterwards sublimated, and to examine the particles remaining after evaporation. The procedure takes into account only crystal with a maximum diameter of 20 μm, by assuming that small crystals do not scavenge aerosol during growth, and therefore that crystals contain only the effective nucleating particles. This assumption is questionable, however, as experiments have shown that even small ice crystals can scavenge aerosol. Another approach has been to compare the number and elemental composition of residual particles in small ice crystals and of aerosol near the cloud. By considering as example soot and black carbon aerosol, contradictory conclusions on their importance in the processes of ice nucleation have been reported in the literature. We suggest that, in addition to physico-chemical properties of soot/carbon aerosol particles, even the microphysical and environmental parameters involved in the transition of aerosol from gas phase to ice crystals in cloud should be considered. The contribution of phoretic forces should also be considered. After initial growth ice crystals can continue to grow by water vapour diffusion. Laboratory experiments confirm the contribution of diffusiophoresis with Stefan flow in the scavenging by snow crystals up to 3 mm in diameter. The particle scavenging efficiency of snow crystals is related to crystalline shape and depends on air relative humidity and temperature.
文摘Scavenging experiments have been performed in a cloud chamber inside a cold room with different aerosol particles: Paraffin particles, NaCl particles, Magnesium oxide particles, Carbon particles, Sahara dust particles. Essentially the experimental tests were carried on following the sequence of operations: the generation of the aerosol particles, their injection in the lower part of the cloud chamber, injection of water droplets in the whole chamber volume, nucleation of ice crystals, collection of ice crystals and their examination as for resulting scavenging efficiency. Evidence is given of the peculiar behaviour of soluble particles, individual and eventually inside mixed particles, leading to very much important scavenging efficiency, probably to be ascribed to aerodynamic capture. The evident peculiar behaviour of deliquescent particles can be oriented towards applications to an efficient abatement of specific effluents, on one side, and to weather modification experiments, both rain enhancement and hail prevention experiments.
基金funded by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (2015-00681)the National Geographic Society, USA (EC0768-15)+1 种基金National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 41772008)National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 31872198)
文摘Objective Phoresy represents a non-parasitic association between animals of different taxa related to transportation. Members of several pseudoscorpion families are phoretic. In pseudoscorpions, phoresy may or may not be associated with their predatory behavior, enabling dispersal over larger distances than they could manage with their own short legs. This provides a wide distribution, and a potential food supply.
文摘目的:探讨核因子KB(NF-κB)抑制剂吡咯烷二硫代氨基甲酸盐(PDTC)对大鼠急性坏死性胰腺炎(ANP)的预防治疗作用。方法:大鼠80只随机分为正常对照组(Z)、胰腺炎组(Y)和干预纽.干预组又分为建模前1h PDTC干预组(A)、建模后1h PDTC干预组(B)和建模后6h干预组(C).干预组按不同时间ip PDTC.建模后6,12,24 h分批处死,临床全自动生化仪检测血清谷丙转氨酶(ALT)和淀粉酶(AMY),用凝胶迁移率改变分析法(EMSA)测定胰腺和肝脏中NF-κB的活性.同时观察胰腺和肝脏的病理改变.结果:正常大鼠组织中几乎测不到NF-κB的活性,与Z组比较,Y组胰腺和肝脏组织中6,12,24 h NF-κB活性分别明显增加(P<0.001).建模前1h,1h后使用PDTC,胰腺和肝脏组织中NF-κB活性均受到抑制(18.14±3.30,23.79±3.62 vs 24.82±4.57:10.68±2.51,13.83±2.70 vs 16.38±2.50;P<0.05),Y组血清ALT,AMY均高于对照组.病理学检查可以见到Y组和A,B,C组的胰腺和肝脏均有炎性改变,但A组较Y组明显为轻.结论:NF-κB的异常活化与SAP以及肝损伤有明显关系:PDTC对SAP时肝损伤的发生有一定的预防作用.
基金Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant Nos.11874397 and 11674365).
文摘Brownian motors and self-phoretic microswimmers are two typical micromotors,for which thermal fluctuations play different roles.Brownian motors utilize thermal noise to acquire unidirectional motion,while thermal fluctuations randomize the self-propulsion of self-phoretic microswimmers.Here we perform mesoscale simulations to study a composite micromotor composed of a self-thermophoretic Janus particle under a time-modulated external ratchet potential.The composite motor exhibits a unidirectional transport,whose direction can be reversed by tuning the modulation frequency of the external potential.The maximum transport capability is close to the superposition of the drift speed of the pure Brownian motor and the self-propelling speed of the pure self-thermophoretic particle.Moreover,the hydrodynamic effect influences the orientation of the Janus particle in the ratched potential,hence also the performance of the composite motor.Our work thus provides an enlightening attempt to actively exploit inevitable thermal fluctuations in the implementation of the self-phoretic microswimmers.
