A choline phosphate (CP) modified surface is designed to resist protein adsorption due to its zwitterionic properties and simultaneously promote cell adhesion though its universal interaction with phosphate choline (PC) headgroups of the cell membrane. This work provides a new approach to obtain a cell-adhesive surface with a non-biofouling 'background', which has a potential for tissue engineering.
Conformance control using preformed gels (PGs) is an effective method to reduce water cut in production oilwells. However, PGs are unable to thicken formation of water, and the improvement of water-oil mobility is limited. Compared with PGs, hydrolysable PGs (HPGs) with labile crosslinker incorporated could thicken the brine gradually. In this study, a series of HPGs were prepared based on labile crosslinker poly(ethylene glycol) diacrylate, self-crosslinker N,N-dimethylacrylamide (DMAM), and nanomaterial laponite. The long-term thermal stability, swelling property, and thickening power of the HPGs were successively examined. It was demonstrated that DMAM remarkably improved the long-term thermal stability of HPGs, and also imparted the swelling and thickening properties during aging period, while laponite effectively increased the viscosity of HPGs suspension but weakened the swelling ratio. Degradation monitored by nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy indicated that HPGs are decrosslinked gradually through the hydrolysis of labile crosslinker and then release a terpolymer of acrylamide, acrylate, and DMAM. The hybrid fluid containing the terpolymer and nanomaterial resulted in the increased viscosity of HPGs suspension. Artificial core flooding results showed that HPGs have good sealing capacity for conformance control, and incremental oil was recovered by using HPGs against traditional PGs with similar plugging efficiency owing to the increased viscosity of the HPGs dispersion.
Shanxi Guang Village which located at the foot of Lv Liang Mountain was attracted much attention by its three-thousand-year of Guang Village ruins, the well protected Jin and Shang dynasty culture which experienced the change of Tang, Yuan, Ming dynasties, the ecological wisdom and so on. This article mainly bases on the historical investigation of historical villages which are located neat the Yellow River. It analyses the ecological culture orientation and ecological wisdom of the village from aspects of plans, buildings,and convictions; and then make the concept of ecological culture well-known and benefit to the construction of New Villages in the Yellow River basin
scite is a Brooklyn-based organization that helps researchers better discover and understand research articles through Smart Citations–citations that display the context of the citation and describe whether the article provides supporting or contrasting evidence. scite is used by students and researchers from around the world and is funded in part by the National Science Foundation and the National Institute on Drug Abuse of the National Institutes of Health.