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Jiang Y, Tan Z, Zhao T, Wu J, Li Y, Jia Y, Peng Z. Indocyanine green derived carbon dots with significantly enhanced properties for efficient photothermal therapy. NANOSCALE 2023; 15:1925-1936. [PMID: 36625142 DOI: 10.1039/d2nr06058b] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 13.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/17/2023]
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A simple yet effective strategy to enhance the properties of traditional dye indocyanine green (ICG) in all aspects was proposed and demonstrated. Specifically, indocyanine green-derived carbon dots (ICGCDs) were synthesized from ICG via a simple hydrothermal treatment. The ICGCDs exhibited significantly enhanced thermal stability and anti-photobleaching compared to ICG. Furthermore, their photothermal properties were also notably strengthened, in which a wider functional pH range, 50% improvement in photothermal conversion efficiency and superior photothermal cyclability were achieved. Thanks to these superior properties, ICGCDs were demonstrated as efficient NIR bioimaging and photothermal agents in both in vitro and in vivo experiments. Most excitingly, the strategy demonstrated in this study is likely to have broad applications in other systems.
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- Yuxiang Jiang
- Yunnan Key Laboratory for Micro/Nano Materials & Technology, School of Materials and Energy, Yunnan University, Kunming 650091, People's Republic of China.
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- Yunnan Provincial Key Laboratory of Pharmacology for Natural Products, School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Kunming Medical University, Kunming 650500, People's Republic of China.
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- Yunnan Key Laboratory for Micro/Nano Materials & Technology, School of Materials and Energy, Yunnan University, Kunming 650091, People's Republic of China.
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- Yunnan Key Laboratory for Micro/Nano Materials & Technology, School of Materials and Energy, Yunnan University, Kunming 650091, People's Republic of China.
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- Yunnan Provincial Key Laboratory of Pharmacology for Natural Products, School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Kunming Medical University, Kunming 650500, People's Republic of China.
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- Yunnan Provincial Key Laboratory of Pharmacology for Natural Products, School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Kunming Medical University, Kunming 650500, People's Republic of China.
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- Yunnan Key Laboratory for Micro/Nano Materials & Technology, School of Materials and Energy, Yunnan University, Kunming 650091, People's Republic of China.
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Liu L, Li G, Xiang N, Huang X, Shiba K. Microfluidic Production of Autofluorescent BSA Hydrogel Microspheres and Their Sequential Trapping for Fluorescence-Based On-Chip Permanganate Sensing. SENSORS (BASEL, SWITZERLAND) 2020; 20:E5886. [PMID: 33080899 PMCID: PMC7594029 DOI: 10.3390/s20205886] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/26/2020] [Revised: 10/15/2020] [Accepted: 10/15/2020] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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Microfabrication technologies have extensively advanced over the past decades, realizing a variety of well-designed compact devices for material synthesis, separation, analysis, monitoring, sensing, and so on. The performance of such devices has been undoubtedly improved, while it is still challenging to build up a platform by rationally combining multiple processes toward practical demands which become more diverse and complicated. Here, we present a simple and effective microfluidic system to produce and immobilize a well-defined functional material for on-chip permanganate (MnO4-) sensing. A droplet-based microfluidic approach that can continuously produce monodispersed droplets in a water-in-oil system is employed to prepare highly uniform microspheres (average size: 102 μm, coefficient of variation: 3.7%) composed of bovine serum albumin (BSA) hydrogel with autofluorescence properties in the presence of glutaraldehyde (GA). Each BSA hydrogel microsphere is subsequently immobilized in a microchannel with a hydrodynamic trapping structure to serve as an independent fluorescence unit. Various anions such as Cl-, NO3-, PO43-, Br-, BrO3-, ClO4-, SCN-, HCO3-, and MnO4- are individually flowed into the microchannel, resulting in significant fluorescence quenching only in the case of MnO4-. Linear correlation is confirmed at an MnO4- concentration from 20 to 80 μM, and a limit of detection is estimated to be 1.7 μM. Furthermore, we demonstrate the simultaneous immobilization of two kinds of different microspheres in parallel microchannels, pure BSA hydrogel microspheres and BSA hydrogel microspheres containing rhodamine B molecules, making it possible to acquire two fluorescence signals (green and yellow). The present microfluidics-based combined approach will be useful to record a fingerprint of complicated samples for sensing/identification purposes by flexibly designing the size and composition of the BSA hydrogel microspheres, immobilizing them in a desired manner and obtaining a specific pattern.
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- Linbo Liu
- John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA; (L.L.); (X.H.)
- Jiangsu Key Laboratory for Design and Manufacture of Micro-Nano Biomedical Instruments, School of Mechanical Engineering, Southeast University, Nanjing 211189, China;
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- John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA; (L.L.); (X.H.)
- State Key Laboratory of Rare Earth Resource Utilization, Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, Changchun 130022, China
- State Key Laboratory of Rare Earth Resource Utilization, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230026, China
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- Jiangsu Key Laboratory for Design and Manufacture of Micro-Nano Biomedical Instruments, School of Mechanical Engineering, Southeast University, Nanjing 211189, China;
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- John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA; (L.L.); (X.H.)
- Institute of Process Equipment, College of Energy Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027, China
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- John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA; (L.L.); (X.H.)
- Center for Functional Sensor & Actuator (CFSN), National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS), 1-1 Namiki, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-0044, Japan
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Zhao Z, Hu R, Shi H, Wang Y, Ji L, Zhang P, Zhang Q. Design of ruthenium-albumin hydrogel for cancer therapeutics and luminescent imaging. J Inorg Biochem 2019; 194:19-25. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jinorgbio.2019.02.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/03/2018] [Revised: 01/26/2019] [Accepted: 02/03/2019] [Indexed: 02/08/2023]
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Fluorescent protein nanoparticles: Synthesis and recognition of cellular oxidation damage. Colloids Surf B Biointerfaces 2019; 177:219-227. [PMID: 30743069 DOI: 10.1016/j.colsurfb.2019.01.065] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/21/2018] [Revised: 01/25/2019] [Accepted: 01/31/2019] [Indexed: 12/19/2022]
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Intracellular reactive oxygen species (ROS) generation are associated with many diseases. Lots of studies focus on the detection of intracellular ROS by small fluorescent molecules. However, ROS recognized by biocompatible nanoparticles are relatively less reported. It is widely known that albumin-based nanomaterials possess unique advantages in biomedical applications because they are biodegradable and biocompatible. Herein, fluorescent protein nanoparticles (PNPs) were prepared using BSA as a starting material without introducing extra fluorescent molecules. The blue fluorescent PNPs were well characterized by FL, FTIR, CD, TEM, DLS, etc. It was revealed that the PNPs exhibited two types of emissive centers through FL spectra and the fluorescence lifetimes. Further mechanism study indicated that the fluorescence of the PNPs was mainly derived from three kinds of aromatic amino acids, namely tryptophan, tyrosine and phenylalanine. Moreover, the fluorescence properties of the PNPs were tightly related to pH. The PNPs displayed excellent stabilities under harsh conditions as well as physiological conditions. In addition, the PNPs (200 μg/mL) were nontoxic to HeLa and GES-1 cell lines, showing good biocompatibility. The cellular uptake of PNPs was occurred only when the cells were stressed with glucose oxidase or H2O2, thereafter the bright blue fluorescence was observed, indicating that it could be utilized for the recognition of cellular oxidation damage. These findings will offer novel clues for the future synthesis of even brighter protein nanoparticles and their biomedical applications.
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Fernandes-Cunha G, McKinlay CJ, Vargas JR, Jessen HJ, Waymouth RM, Wender PA. Delivery of Inorganic Polyphosphate into Cells Using Amphipathic Oligocarbonate Transporters. ACS CENTRAL SCIENCE 2018; 4:1394-1402. [PMID: 30410977 PMCID: PMC6202642 DOI: 10.1021/acscentsci.8b00470] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/16/2018] [Indexed: 05/10/2023]
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Inorganic polyphosphate (polyP) is an often-overlooked biopolymer of phosphate residues present in living cells. PolyP is associated with many essential biological roles. Despite interest in polyP's function, most studies have been limited to extracellular or isolated protein experiments, as polyanionic polyP does not traverse the nonpolar membrane of cells. To address this problem, we developed a robust, readily employed method for polyP delivery using guanidinium-rich oligocarbonate transporters that electrostatically complex polyPs of multiple lengths, forming discrete nanoparticles that are resistant to phosphatase degradation and that readily enter multiple cell types. Fluorescently labeled polyPs have been monitored over time for subcellular localization and release from the transporter, with control over release rates achieved by modulating the transporter identity and the charge ratio of the electrostatic complexes. This general approach to polyP delivery enables the study of intracellular polyP signaling in a variety of applications.
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- Gabriella
M. Fernandes-Cunha
- Department
of Chemistry and Department of Chemical and Systems Biology, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, United States
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- Department
of Chemistry and Department of Chemical and Systems Biology, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, United States
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- Department
of Chemistry and Department of Chemical and Systems Biology, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, United States
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- Institute
of Organic Chemistry, Albert-Ludwigs University, Freiburg Albertstr. 21, 79104 Freiburg, Germany
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- Department
of Chemistry and Department of Chemical and Systems Biology, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, United States
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- Department
of Chemistry and Department of Chemical and Systems Biology, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, United States
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Luo X, Al-Antaki AHM, Harvey DP, Ruan Y, He S, Zhang W, Raston CL. Vortex Fluidic Mediated Synthesis of Macroporous Bovine Serum Albumin-Based Microspheres. ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES 2018; 10:27224-27232. [PMID: 30028117 DOI: 10.1021/acsami.8b09316] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/22/2023]
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Macroporous bovine serum albumin (BSA) nanoparticles with controllable diameter were readily fabricated in a rapidly rotating angled glass tube in a vortex fluidic device (VFD). Systematically varying the rotational speed and the ratio of BSA, ethanol, and glutaraldehyde led to conditions for generating ca. 600 nm diameter macroporous particles that have intrinsic fluorescence emission at 520 nm when excited at 490 nm. The presence of the macropores increased the absorption efficiency of rhodamine B with potential applications for drug delivery purpose, compared with BSA nanoparticles having surfaces devoid of pores. Further control over the size of BSA nanoparticles occurred in the presence of C-phycocyanin protein during the VFD processing, along with control of their shape, from spheres to pockets, as established in exploring the parameter space of the microfluidic device.
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- ARC Centre of Excellence for Nanoscale BioPhotonics, Institute of Photonics and Advanced Sensing , Adelaide University , Adelaide , South Australia 5005 , Australia
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- Department of Food Science and Engineering, School of Chemistry Chemical Engineering , Guangzhou University , Guangzhou 510006 , China
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Ma X, Li JQ, O'Connell C, Fan TH, Lei Y. Integrated Experimental and Modeling Study of Enzymatic Degradation Using Novel Autofluorescent BSA Microspheres. LANGMUIR : THE ACS JOURNAL OF SURFACES AND COLLOIDS 2018; 34:191-197. [PMID: 29256617 DOI: 10.1021/acs.langmuir.7b03057] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/07/2023]
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Autofluorescent bovine serum albumin (BSA) hydrogel microspheres were prepared through the spray-drying of glutaraldehyde cross-linked BSA nanoparticles and then used for a proteinase K based degradation study in an aqueous solution. Experimental results and empirical models are presented to characterize the kinetics of BSA hydrogel microsphere degradation, as well as the accompanying release of synthesized fluorophore. The BSA gel degradation dynamics is primarily controlled by the concentration of proteinase K within the Tris buffer. The coupling of swelling dynamics and the transient distributions of fluorophore are traced by confocal microscopy. Models are developed based on the linear theory of elastic deformation coupled to enzyme and fluorophore transport. This study represents a fundamental investigation of the degradation and release kinetics of protein-based materials, which can potentially be applied for the dynamic and photostable tracking of relevant in vivo systems.
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- Xiaoyu Ma
- Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Connecticut , Storrs, Connecticut 06269-3247, United States
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Connecticut , Storrs, Connecticut 06269-3139, United States
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- Biotechnology-Bioservices Center, University of Connecticut , Storrs, Connecticut 06269-3149, United States
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Connecticut , Storrs, Connecticut 06269-3139, United States
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- Department of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering, University of Connecticut , Storrs, Connecticut 06269-3222, United States
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Ma X, Sun X, Chen J, Lei Y. Natural or Natural-Synthetic Hybrid Polymer-Based Fluorescent Polymeric Materials for Bio-imaging-Related Applications. Appl Biochem Biotechnol 2017; 183:461-487. [DOI: 10.1007/s12010-017-2570-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/19/2017] [Accepted: 07/31/2017] [Indexed: 10/19/2022]
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Wei T, Du D, Wang Z, Zhang W, Lin Y, Dai Z. Rapid and sensitive detection of microRNA via the capture of fluorescent dyes-loaded albumin nanoparticles around functionalized magnetic beads. Biosens Bioelectron 2017; 94:56-62. [PMID: 28257975 DOI: 10.1016/j.bios.2017.02.044] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/31/2016] [Revised: 02/20/2017] [Accepted: 02/24/2017] [Indexed: 12/29/2022]
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MicroRNAs (miRNAs) play important roles in gene regulation and cancer development. Nowadays, it is still a challenge to detect low-abundance miRNAs. Here, we present a magnetic fluorescent miRNA sensing system for the rapid and sensitive detection of miRNAs from cell lysates and serum samples. In this system, albumin nanoparticles (Alb NPs) were prepared from inherent biocompatible bovine serum albumin (BSA). A large number of fluorescent dyes were loaded into Alb NPs to make Alb NPs serve as signal molecular nanocarriers for signal amplification. Benefited from the reactive functional groups-carboxyl groups of Alb NPs, p19 protein, a viral protein that can bind and sequester short RNA duplex effectively and selectively, was modified successfully to the surface of the fluorescent dyes-loaded Alb NPs, thus enabling the probe:target miRNA duplex recognition and binding. Followed by the introduction of gold nanoparticles coated magnetic microbeads (Au NPs-MBs), which were prepared through a novel and simple method, the system combined the merits of the rapid and efficient collection given by MBs with the good affinities to attach probe molecules endowed by the coated gold layer. A broad linear detection range of 10fM-10nM and a low detection limit of 9fM were obtained within 100min by detecting a model target miRNA-21. The feasibility of this method for rapid and sensitive quantification might advance the use of miRNAs as biomarkers in clinical praxis significantly.
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- Tianxiang Wei
- Jiangsu Collaborative Innovation Centre of Biomedical Functional Materials and Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Biofunctional Materials, School of Chemistry and Materials Science, Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing 210023, PR China; School of Mechanical and Materials Engineering, Washington State University, Pullman, WA 99164, USA; School of Environment, Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing 210023, PR China
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- School of Mechanical and Materials Engineering, Washington State University, Pullman, WA 99164, USA
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- Jiangsu Collaborative Innovation Centre of Biomedical Functional Materials and Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Biofunctional Materials, School of Chemistry and Materials Science, Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing 210023, PR China
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- Jiangsu Collaborative Innovation Centre of Biomedical Functional Materials and Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Biofunctional Materials, School of Chemistry and Materials Science, Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing 210023, PR China
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- School of Mechanical and Materials Engineering, Washington State University, Pullman, WA 99164, USA.
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- Jiangsu Collaborative Innovation Centre of Biomedical Functional Materials and Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Biofunctional Materials, School of Chemistry and Materials Science, Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing 210023, PR China.
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Shankar KR, Ameta R, Singh M. Preparation of BSA nanoparticles using aqueous urea at T = 308.15, 313.15 and 318.15 K as a function of temperature. J Mol Liq 2016. [DOI: 10.1016/j.molliq.2016.02.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
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Díaz S, Breger J, Medintz I. Monitoring Enzymatic Proteolysis Using Either Enzyme- or Substrate-Bioconjugated Quantum Dots. Methods Enzymol 2016; 571:19-54. [DOI: 10.1016/bs.mie.2016.01.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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Chen D, Wu D, Cheng G, Zhao H. Reductant-triggered rapid self-gelation and biological functionalization of hydrogels. Polym Chem 2015. [DOI: 10.1039/c5py01299f] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Rapid exchange reaction between thiols and pyridyl disulfide groups on polyacrylamide was used in the synthesis and biological modification of hydrogels.
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- Dawei Chen
- Key Laboratory of Functional Polymer Materials
- Ministry of Education
- College of Chemistry
- Nankai University; Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemical Science and Engineering (Tianjin)
- Tianjin 300071
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- The Institute of Seawater Desalination and Multipurpose Utilization
- SOA
- Tianjin 300192
- China
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- The Institute of Seawater Desalination and Multipurpose Utilization
- SOA
- Tianjin 300192
- China
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- Key Laboratory of Functional Polymer Materials
- Ministry of Education
- College of Chemistry
- Nankai University; Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemical Science and Engineering (Tianjin)
- Tianjin 300071
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