Patents Assigned to JIANGNAN UNIVERSITY
  • Patent number: 11976093
    Abstract: The disclosure discloses an ultrasonic-assisted pretreatment method for extraction of multiple steroid hormones in a sediment, including the following steps: (1) lyophilizing the sediment, grinding the sediment, and passing the ground sediment through a 40-60-mesh sieve; (2) placing the sample obtained in step (1) in a container; (3) adding an extractant to the container in step (2), shaking the mixture for 15 s-30 s, centrifuging the mixture to collect an supernatant after ultrasonication, and repeating extraction three times; where the extractants used in the three times of extraction are two of methanol, acetonitrile and acetone; and (4) after mixing the supernatants of the three times of extraction obtained in step (3), concentrating the mixture under a nitrogen flow at 20-30° C., passing the concentrated mixture through a filter, and performing detection. By using the method of the disclosure, the maximum recovery can be up to 100%.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: JIANGNAN UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Hua Zou, Xin Luo, Ruihua Dai, Yun Zhang, Shu Shu, Zhengkai Zhou
  • Patent number: 11975751
    Abstract: The present invention discloses an iterative learning control (ILC) method for a multi-particle vehicle platoon driving system, and relates to the field of ILC. The method includes: firstly, discretizing a multi-particle train dynamic equation using a finite difference method to obtain a partial recurrence equation, and then transforming the partial recurrence equation into a spatially interconnected system model; secondly, transforming the spatially interconnected system model into an equivalent one-dimensional dynamic model using a lifting technology, and in order to compensate input delay, designing an ILC law based on a state observer; and thirdly, transforming a controlled object into an equivalent discrete repetitive process according to the ILC law, and converting a controller combination problem into a linear matrix inequality based on stability analysis of the repetitive process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: Jiangnan University
    Inventors: Hongfeng Tao, Longhui Zhou, Zhihe Zhuang, Yande Huang, Junyu Wei, Rui Wang
  • Patent number: 11976267
    Abstract: The invention provides a recombinant Escherichia coli strain for producing succinic acid and a construction method thereof. The by-product encoding genes in the E. coli strain FMME-N-2 are knocked out to obtain the E. coli strain FMME-N-5 (?focA-pflB-?ldhA-?pta-ackA); and the phosphoenolpyruvate carboxykinase pck derived from Actinobacillus succinogenes and the phosphite dehydrogenase ptxD derived from Pseudomonas stutzeri were overexpressed. The constructed plasmid pTrcHisA-pck-ptxD was introduced into the expression host E. coli FMME-N-5 (?focA-pflB-?ldhA-?pta-ackA), and the cells were screened in a plate containing ampicillin, to obtain an engineered strain E. coli FMME-N-5 (?focA-pflB-?ldhA-?pta-ackA)-pck-ptxD that can efficiently produce succinic acid. After fermentation by a two-stage fermentation strategy, the production of succinic acid reaches 137 g/L, the yield of succinic acid is up to 1 g/g glucose, and the space time yield is 1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: JIANGNAN UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Liming Liu, Wenxiu Tang, Chen Shen, Qiuling Luo, Xiulai Chen, Jia Liu, Cong Gao, Wei Song
  • Patent number: 11969705
    Abstract: The disclosure discloses an irreversible covalent organic framework for efficient and selective gold recovery and a preparation method thereof, and belongs to the technical field of precious metal recovery from an aqueous solution. In the disclosure, metal trifluoromethanesulfonate is used as a catalyst, and a solvothermal method is used to prepare a mother covalent organic framework, and then the corresponding structural unit is used to perform an exchange reaction to prepare an irreversible amide-linked covalent organic framework material. The disclosure solves the problem of preparation of high-stability irreversible covalent organic framework, the introduced amide bond gives the covalent organic framework the ability to quickly and selectively recover precious metal gold from an aqueous solution, and the covalent organic framework can be used repeatedly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: JIANGNAN UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Hailong Qian, Fanlin Meng, Xiuping Yan
  • Patent number: 11970620
    Abstract: The disclosure belongs to the technical field of material science, and particularly relates to a method for preparing a high sensitivity temperature sensitive reversible color-changing microcapsule. According to the method, a series of novel fluorane dyes are designed and synthesized, the color-changing performance can be achieved without a color developing agent, the fluorane dyes are compounded with a phase change material according to a certain proportion, a series of two-component reversible temperature sensitive color-changing dyes are prepared, and then a two-component reversible thermochromic microcapsule with good color performance and color-changing response performance is prepared by adopting a solvent evaporation method. The two-component reversible thermochromic microcapsule provided by the disclosure can effectively alleviate the color lag phenomenon of a traditional three-component thermochromic capsule.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: JIANGNAN UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Shaohai Fu, Liping Zhang, Jingjing Li, Chengcheng Wang, Xiaojun Jiang
  • Patent number: 11970723
    Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a strain producing D-allulose 3-epimerase and application thereof, and belongs to the technical field of bioengineering. The present disclosure provides a method for improving the expression of D-allulose 3-epimerase by screening promoters and optimizing RBS thereof. The recombinant Bacillus subtilis constructed using thevectors pP43NMK-hag and pP43NMK-hag-RBS4 provided by the present disclosure improves the enzyme activity of a target gene D-allulose 3-epimerase, and theenzyme activities in shake flasks upon transformation are 1.30 times and 1.69 times that of an original vector. The present disclosure further provides a non-antibiotic resistance vector and a non-antibiotic resistance recombinant B. subtilis strain. Using the non-antibiotic resistance strain B. subtilis 1A751-dal-/pP43NMK-hag-RBS4-dpe-dal provided by the present disclosure, the highest fermentation enzyme activity in a shake flask is 24.72 U/mL, and the enzyme activity in a fermenter is 714.8 U/mL.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: JIANGNAN UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Tao Zhang, Mengying Hu, Bo Jiang, Mengli Li
  • Patent number: 11963542
    Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a casein micelle with composition and structural features simulating human milk and a preparation method thereof. The method includes the following steps: adding a citrate ion, a calcium ion, and a phosphate ion to a solution of compound casein to obtain a mixed solution; and then adjusting the pH of the mixed solution to 6.7-7.4, and achieving a constant volume with water to obtain a solution of the casein micelle simulating human milk. Wherein ?-casein, ?-casein, and ?s1-casein have a mass proportion of 65-71%, 17-23%, and 9-15% in the compound casein respectively. In the solution of the casein micelle simulating human milk, the concentrations of compound casein, citrate ion, calcium ion and phosphate ion were 0.3-0.6%, 1.5-4.2 mM, 4.5-10.8 mM, and 1.1-4.5 mM, respectively. The casein micelle simulating human milk of the present disclosure is similar to human milk casein micelle, and has low allergenicity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: JIANGNAN UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Peng Zhou, Dasong Liu, Tingting Yang, Lina Zhang
  • Patent number: 11964249
    Abstract: The disclosure discloses a milk protein concentrate-based microencapsulation wall material and microcapsules, and belongs to the technical field of microcapsule preparation. In the disclosure, liquid or solid microcapsules are prepared by performing cation exchange treatment on milk protein concentrates, and then using the treated milk protein concentrates as a wall material. The prepared microcapsules have good physical and chemical stability during storage, and are suitable for protecting active functional factors and to be applied in the fields of food, medicine, health care products, cosmetics, daily chemicals and the like.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: JIANGNAN UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Peng Zhou, Jinhua Hu, Fengchen Zhuang, Xiang Li, Yuejie Jin, Chaoyue Zhang, Minjun Cheng, Yongxue Liang
  • Patent number: 11963970
    Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a preparation method of ginseng composition with high ginsenoside bioavailability. The composition is composed of ginseng powder of 250 meshes or more and ?-cyclodextrin, and the mass ratio of the ginseng powder to the ?-cyclodextrin is 1:0.05. Results show that when ?-cyclodextrin is used as a solid dispersant and added to the 1000-mesh ginseng powder at a mass ratio of 5%, the total dissolution amount is maximum; and furthermore, animal experiments (SD rats) show that the area under the plasma drug concentration-time curve (AUC0-48 h) after 48 h of ginseng powder ingestion is maximum, indicating that in-vivo bioavailability of the ginseng powder is the highest. The method of this application can effectively inhibit the aggregation of the ultra-finely pulverized 1000-mesh ginseng powder by adding the ?-cyclodextrin, thus significantly improving the total dissolution amount of ginsenoside.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignees: JIANGNAN UNIVERSITY, STANDARD FOODS (CHINA) CO., LTD, LE BONTA WELLNESS CO., LTD
    Inventors: Peng Zhou, Changshu Liu, Tao Yang, Chang Liu, Yaowei Liu, Zikuan Zhao, Jianguo Liu, Kexin Li
  • Patent number: 11965141
    Abstract: Disclosed is food-grade lubricating grease and a method for preparing the same, belonging to the technical field of lubricating grease. The food-grade lubricating grease is prepared from the following components in percentage by mass: 75% to 85% of food-grade white oil, 6% to 16% of stearic acid, 2.0% to 3.0% of benzoic acid, 4.7% to 8.7% of aluminum isopropoxide, 1.0% to 1.5% of water and 1.0% to 7.0% of nano-PTFE, and has good extreme-pressure, abrasion-resistant and friction-reduction properties, a last non-seizure load (PB) reaching 411.6 N, a sintering load (PD) reaching 1,960 N, and a friction coefficient reduced by 18.5%. The lubricating grease can be used for a food production industry and in household food appliances, the service life of a device and the service life of the food-grade lubricating grease are effectively prolonged, and meanwhile, food security is guaranteed to a certain degree.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: JIANGNAN UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Shanhua Qian, Longfei Gong, Wei Wang, Zifeng Ni, Juan Tang
  • Patent number: 11965196
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to an enzymatic preparation method of inclusion complexes of tributyrin, and belongs to the technical field of oil microencapsulation. The disclosure combines enzymatic synthesis of cyclodextrin and inclusion of tributyrin with cyclodextrin, including enzymatic preparation of cyclodextrin with a CGT enzyme. Tributyrin is added in the preparation process; after reaction, Tween is added, and homogenization and spray drying are carried out. The effect of the finally obtained tributyrin powder is much better than that of single inclusion of tributyrin with cyclodextrin. The disclosure is simple in process, low in cost and convenient in operation; reaction processes are free of toxicity and pollution; there are no toxic reagent residues; the inclusion effect is obvious, and better utilization of a nutritional additive tributyrin in actual production is facilitated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: JIANGNAN UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Caiming Li, Zhaofeng Li, Shuangdi Chen, Zhengbiao Gu, Yan Feng, Zexi Li, Li Cheng, Yan Hong
  • Patent number: 11959113
    Abstract: The disclosure discloses a production process and application of fermented tapioca starch for baking, and belongs to the fields of starch deep processing and food processing and production. The disclosure develops a production method of the fermented tapioca starch for baking. The method includes simple steps and greatly shortens a process cycle. By using tapioca starch as a main raw material and adding a specific amount of carbon source and a specific strain, under the action of fermentation and illumination in cooperation, the structure of the starch is improved. By adding the fermented tapioca starch, the effects of increasing the size of gluten-free Mochi bread, increasing pores of the bread and improving the texture and taste of the bread are realized.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: JIANGNAN UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Yan Hong, Qiaoting Qi, Zhengbiao Gu, Li Cheng, Zhaofeng Li, Caiming Li
  • Patent number: 11959901
    Abstract: Provided are method and system for rapidly predicting foaming tendency of edible frying oil, including: heating the oil; immersing a polar component content detection probe into the oil to measure an initial polar component content of the oil; at a frying state, removing the detection probe from the oil, placing frying food into the oil and frying the same taking out the frying food from the oil after frying, and measuring the largest frying oil foam height and recording the same as an initial foam height; at an air introduction state, immersing the detection probe and introducing air into the oil, and continuing to introduce air and heat thereinto until the polar component content in the oil is 10%; repeating the frying state; and fitting measurements and parameters into a formula.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: Jiangnan University
    Inventors: Gangcheng Wu, Hui Zhang, Xu Li, Xingguo Wang, Qingzhe Jin, Linglu Meng, Linya Shao, Zhengmei Zhao, Yanting Lu
  • Patent number: 11951450
    Abstract: A processing system and processing method for blocked microreactor. The processing system comprises an gas intake device, a flushing device, a microreactor to be processed and a plasma processing device. One end of the microreactor to be processed is connected with the gas intake device and the flushing device through a pipeline; the other end of the microreactor to be processed is connected with a waste liquid bottle through the pipeline; and the microreactor to be processed is arranged between electrodes of the plasma processing device. The present invention uses the effective reactivity of plasma and active free radicals in an excitation atmosphere to crack micro blockage in a micro channel in a short time. The method of the present invention has high flexibility and strong controllability, and can select plasma electrodes according to blocked regions to crack the blockage in a specific region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: JIANGNAN UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Liangliang Lin, Ziyi Zhang, Lichen Rui
  • Patent number: 11946197
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method for modifying polyester by a swelling agent combined with cutinase, belonging to the technical field of textile processing. According to the method, a phenol solution or an o-vanillin solution is used as the swelling agent to perform swelling treatment on the polyester, and combined with a Humicola insolens cutinase solution to perform hydrophilic modification on the polyester, which not only significantly improves the release amount of hydrolysates, but also reduces the fabric mass loss compared with the traditional chemical modification method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: JIANGNAN UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Jiajia Fu, Jundan Feng, Artur Cavaco-paulo, Rong Li, Yuzheng Lu, Xinming Zheng, Ruijuan Han, Chaoran Meng
  • Patent number: 11946196
    Abstract: The present disclosure discloses an atmospheric-pressure plasma equipment for fabric functional finishing and its application, and belongs to the field of textile printing and dyeing engineering. The atmospheric-pressure plasma equipment, including a discharging system, a grafting instrument and a cloth guider, can conduct continuous plasma treatment on fabrics under an atmospheric pressure, including plasma etching and plasma grafting, which breaks through the disadvantage of batch processing of vacuum plasma equipment. The equipment and method of the present disclosure realize functional finishing of the fabrics in the absence of water, and this finishing process is cost efficient, environmentally friendly, uniform, shorter treatment time and higher reactivity, and applicable to many materials and can keep the bulk properties of the treated substances.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: JIANGNAN UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Chang-E Zhou, Hongwei Wang, Wenkai Shen, Lei Fan, Xin Ju, Guozheng Zhang, Tongxin Yang, Wanning Wang, Chang Sun
  • Patent number: 11946088
    Abstract: The disclosure discloses a method for processing oil crops with rhodotorula, and belongs to the technical field of fermentation. The method includes the step of inoculating the rhodotorula (such as Rhodotorula mucilaginosa, Sporidiobolus salmonicolor and Rhodotorula glutinis) that can produce carotenoid into a fermentation medium that contains oil-rich oil crops for solid state fermentation to obtain oil and oil crop meal rich in carotenoid. The carotenoid as a fermentative metabolite of the rhodotorula has bioactivities of resisting oxidation, preventing vascular sclerosis, enhancing immunity and preventing cancers. Contents of carotenoid in the oil and oil crop meal acquired by the method can be up to 9.071 ?g/g and 8.062 ?g/g correspondingly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: JIANGNAN UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Yuanfa Liu, Zhongyang Ding, Yunzhi Jiang, Liting Zhao, Mengmeng Xu, Qi Zhang, Zhenghua Gu, Guiyang Shi
  • Patent number: 11938465
    Abstract: The invention discloses a coordination type zirconium phosphotungstate catalyst and its application in catalytic hydrogenation of furfural, belonging to the field of heterogeneous catalysis. The zirconium phosphotungstate catalyst prepared by the invention not only has good catalytic effect on the conversion of furfural to furfuryl alcohol, but also has mild reaction conditions. The yield of solid line furfuryl alcohol can be 98% if it can be reacted for 1 h at 120 ° C., and the amount of catalyst is less, which greatly reduces the energy consumption in the prior art. In addition, the zirconium phosphotungstate prepared by the invention is easy to separate, has good stability for catalyzing the hydrogenation of furfural to furfuryl alcohol, and is a new, efficient and green catalyst.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: JIANGNAN UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Liping Zhang, Haijun Wang, Guangzhi Xu, Chen Liu
  • Patent number: 11938629
    Abstract: A micro-robot magnetic drive device and a control method based on double closed loop three-dimensional path tracking are disclosed. The method includes: inputting a desired tracking path, obtaining current pose information of a magnetic micro-robot through a camera, and then calculating a position of a center of mass, an actual axial direction, coordinates of a desired position point with the shortest distance from the center of mass on a desired tracking path, and a tangent direction of this point; calculating a horizontal distance, a vertical distance, a direction angle error, and a pitch angle error of the two points according to the actual axial direction, the tangent direction, and disturbance compensation; and obtaining a required rotating magnetic field according to a designed position closed loop controller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: JIANGNAN UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Qigao Fan, Wei Chen, Linbai Xie, Yixin Zhu, Guofeng Yang, Yueyang Li, Kaitao Bi, Wentao Huang, Haichi Luo, Zhengqing Zhao
  • Patent number: 11925708
    Abstract: The invention provides a making method of modified polyvinyl alcohol embolic microspheres. First, polyvinyl alcohol dimethyl sulfoxide solution is added to acryloyl chloride dichloromethane solution for reaction, then taurine solution is added to the above solution for further reaction, so that functional groups are introduced into the side chains of polyvinyl alcohol, then blank microspheres are prepared by suspension crosslinking method, and finally, drug-loaded modified polyvinyl alcohol embolic microspheres are prepared. The invention aims at improving the drug loading rate and drug loading speed of the microspheres. Through modification, the crystallinity of polyvinyl alcohol is weakened, the swelling in water is accelerated, and the application effect of the microspheres is improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: JIANGNAN UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Liping Zhang, Yi Zhu, Wenlong Wang, Caihua Ni