Cells employ proteins to perform metabolic functions and maintain active physiological state through charge transfer and energy conversion. These processes are carried out in a narrow space precisely and rapidly, which, no doubt, bring great difficulty for their detection and dissection. Fortunately, in recent years, the development and expansion of single-molecule technique in protein research make monitoring the dynamical changes of protein at single-molecule level a reality, which also provides a powerful tool for the further exploration of new phenomena and new mechanisms of life activities. This paper aims to summarize the working principle and essential achievements of single-molecule technique in protein research in recent five years. We focus on not only dissecting the difference of nanopores, atomic force microscope, scanning tunneling microscope, and optical tweezers technique, but also discussing the great significance of these single-molecule techniques in investigating intramolecular and intermolecular interactions, electron transport, and conformational changes. Finally, the opportunities and challenges of the single-molecule technique in protein research are discussed, which provide a new door for single-molecule protein research. 相似文献
Three novel orange emission supramolecular phosphorescent polymers (SPPs) with cationic iridium complex have been developed for polymer light-emitting diodes (PLEDs) through efficient self-assembly. The supramolecular assembly process was monitored by 1H nuclear magnetic resonance (1H NMR) and viscosity measurement. These SPPs give orange phosphorescence with a peak at about 595 nm and display good thermal properties with a glass-transition temperature (Tg) about 90 °C. The single-emissive-layer PLEDs with charged SPPs exhibited the highest device efficiency of 2.81 cd A?1 with the Commission Internationale de L’Eclairage coordinates of (0.58, 0.40). The present work reported the charged SPPs self-assembled by the cationic iridium complex for the first time and provided a new guide to develop orange emitters for solution-processable optoelectronic devices.
We compute the front speeds of the Kolmogorov-Petrovsky-Piskunov (KPP) reactive fronts in two prototypes of periodic incompressible flows (the cellular flows and the cat’s eye flows). The computation is based on adaptive streamline diffusion methods for the advection-diffusion type principal eigenvalue problem associated with the KPP front speeds. In the large amplitude regime, internal layers form in eigenfunctions. Besides recovering known speed growth law for the cellular flow, we found larger growth rates of front speeds in cat’s eye flows due to the presence of open channels, and the front speed slowdown due to either zero Neumann boundary condition at domain boundaries or frequency increase of cat’s eye flows. 相似文献