Carbonated nanohydroxyapatite from bone waste and its potential as a super adsorbent for removal of toxic ions

Sekine, Yurina; Nankawa, Takuya; Yamada, Teppei*; Matsumura, Daiju; Nemoto, Yoshihiro*; Takeguchi, Masaki*; Sugita, Tsuyoshi; Shimoyama, Iwao; Kozai, Naofumi; Morooka, Satoshi

Journal of Environmental Chemical Engineering, 9(2), p.105114_1 - 105114_12, 2021/04

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jece.2021.105114

Remediating toxic ion contamination is crucial for protecting human health and the environment. This study aimed to provide a powerful strategy for effectively utilizing bone waste from the food production and preparation industries for removal of toxic ions. Here, we show that immersing pig bone in NaHCO solution produced a carbonated nanohydroxyapatites (C-NHAP). The C-NHAP exhibited high adsorptivity for Sr, Cd, Pb, and Cu. The strontium adsorptivity was about 250 and 4,500 times higher than that of normal bone and synthetic HAP, respectively. The C-NHAP is an eco-friendly, high-performance material that is simple to prepare and should be useful for tackling problems of food waste disposal and environmental pollution.

Reaction path and product analysis of sodium-water chemical reactions using laser diagnostics

Deguchi, Yoshihiro*; Muranaka, Ryota*; Kamimoto, Takahiro*; Takagi, Taku*; Kikuchi, Shin; Kurihara, Akikazu

Applied Thermal Engineering, 114, p.1319 - 1324, 2017/03

The purpose of this study aims to clarify the gas phase sodium-water reaction path and reaction products quantitatively. The counter-flow diffusion experiment device was employed to analyze the reaction path and reaction products using laser diagnostics. The main product of sodium-water reaction was determined to be NaOH and the sodium oxide was not notably measured compared with NaOH.

Development of a high power gyrotron operating at 28 and 35 GHz

Kariya, Tsuyoshi*; Minami, Ryutaro*; Imai, Tsuyoshi*; Eguchi, Taku*; Sakamoto, Keishi; Mitsunaka, Yoshika*; Numakura, Tomoharu*; Endo, Yoichi*

Plasma and Fusion Research (Internet), 8, p.1205107_1 - 1205107_2, 2013/10

https://doi.org/10.1585/pfr.8.1205107

Development of multi-purpose MW gyrotrons for fusion devices

Minami, Ryutaro*; Kariya, Tsuyoshi*; Imai, Tsuyoshi*; Numakura, Tomoharu*; Endo, Yoichi*; Nakabayashi, Hidetaka*; Eguchi, Taku*; Shimozuma, Takashi*; Kubo, Shin*; Yoshimura, Yasuo*; et al.

Nuclear Fusion, 53(6), p.063003_1 - 063003_7, 2013/06

https://doi.org/10.1088/0029-5515/53/6/063003

Impact of interface defect passivation on conduction band offset at SiO/4H-SiC interface

Hosoi, Takuji*; Kirino, Takashi*; Chanthaphan, A.*; Uenishi, Yusuke*; Ikeguchi, Daisuke*; Yoshigoe, Akitaka; Teraoka, Yuden; Mitani, Shuhei*; Nakano, Yuki*; Nakamura, Takashi*; et al.

Materials Science Forum, 717-720, p.721 - 724, 2012/05

https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/MSF.717-720.721

Alternative splicing in human transcriptome; Functional and structural influence on proteins

Yura, Kei; Shionyu, Masafumi*; Hagino, Kei*; Hijikata, Atsushi*; Hirashima, Yoshinori*; Nakahara, Taku*; Eguchi, Tatsuya*; Shinoda, Kazuki*; Yamaguchi, Akihiro*; Takahashi, Kenichi*; et al.

Gene, 380(2), p.63 - 71, 2006/10

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gene.2006.05.015

Alternative splicing is a molecular mechanism that produces multiple proteins from a single gene, and is thought to produce variety in proteins translated from a limited number of genes. Here we analyzed how alternative splicing produced variety in protein structure and function, by using human full-length cDNAs, on the assumption that all of the alternatively spliced mRNAs were translated to proteins. We found that the length of alternatively spliced amino acid sequences, in most cases, fell into a size shorter than that of average protein domain. We evaluated comprehensively the presumptive three-dimensional structures of the alternatively spliced products to assess the impact of alternative splicing on gene function. We found that more than half of the products encoded proteins which were involved in signal transduction, transcription and translation, and more than half of alternatively spliced regions comprised interaction sites between proteins and their binding partners, including substrates, DNA/RNA, and other proteins. Intriguingly, 67% of the alternatively spliced isoforms showed significant alterations to regions of the protein structural core, which likely resulted in large conformational change. Based on those findings, we speculate that there are a large number of cases that alternative splicing modulates protein networks through significant alteration in protein conformation.

Correlation between SiO/SiC interface structure and conduction band offset

Kirino, Takashi*; Chanthaphan, A.*; Ikeguchi, Daisuke*; Yoshigoe, Akitaka; Teraoka, Yuden; Mitani, Shuhei*; Nakano, Yuki*; Nakamura, Takashi*; Hosoi, Takuji*; Shimura, Takayoshi*; et al.

no journal, , 

In order to investigate correlation between a conduction band offset and the interface characteristics of SiO/SiC structure, synchrotron radiation XPS have been conducted for the SiO/SiC structure formed by sputtering and thermal oxidation. In the SiO/SiC interface formed by sputtering, higher oxidation number components decreased and the total amount of suboxides was small comparing with thermal oxidation. Furthermore, an SiO photoemission peak of the sputtering sample was shifted to higher binding energy side by 0.24 eV, and a conduction band offset was smaller comparing with the thermal oxide sample. The SiO band gap was evaluated from an O1s energy loss spectrum, and the valence band offset was also obtained from a valence band photoemission spectrum. The conduction band offset for the sputtering sample was smaller by 0.35 eV comparing with the thermal oxide sample.

Characterization and improvement of SiC-MOS interface properties for power device application

Hosoi, Takuji*; Kirino, Takashi*; Chanthaphan, A.*; Ikeguchi, Daisuke*; Yoshigoe, Akitaka; Teraoka, Yuden; Mitani, Shuhei*; Nakano, Yuki*; Nakamura, Takashi*; Shimura, Takayoshi*; et al.

no journal, , 

no abstracts in English

Structure of hydrated Cs on montmorillonite

Okamoto, Takuya*; Okubo, Takahiro*; Iwadate, Yasuhiko*; Deguchi, Kenzo*; Shimizu, Tadashi*; Oki, Shinobu*; Tachi, Yukio

no journal, , 

The structures of Cs adsorbed on montmorillonite were investigated by Cs Magic Angle Spinning (MAS) NMR spectroscopy. The NMR spectra of Cs adsorbed on montmorillonite samples were measured under different relative humidity levels and were analyzed to evaluate the change in the structure of hydrated Cs sorbed on montmorillonite.