Single- and multi-component chiral supraparticles as modular enantioselective catalysts

Si Li; Juan Liu; Naomi S. Ramesar; Hendrik Heinz; Liguang Xu; Chuanlai Xu; Nicholas A. Kotov

doi:10.1038/s41467-019-12134-4

Nature Communications (Oct 2019)

Single- and multi-component chiral supraparticles as modular enantioselective catalysts

Si Li,
Juan Liu,
Naomi S. Ramesar,
Hendrik Heinz,
Liguang Xu,
Chuanlai Xu,
Nicholas A. Kotov

Affiliations

Si Li: State Key Lab of Food Science and Technology, International Joint Research Laboratory for Biointerface and Biodetection, School of Food Science and Technology, Jiangnan University
Juan Liu: Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder
Naomi S. Ramesar: Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Michigan
Hendrik Heinz: Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder
Liguang Xu: State Key Lab of Food Science and Technology, International Joint Research Laboratory for Biointerface and Biodetection, School of Food Science and Technology, Jiangnan University
Chuanlai Xu: State Key Lab of Food Science and Technology, International Joint Research Laboratory for Biointerface and Biodetection, School of Food Science and Technology, Jiangnan University
Nicholas A. Kotov: Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Michigan

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-12134-4
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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Nanoscale biological assemblies play crucial roles in all living systems and display a variety of chemical functionalities. Here the authors show that it is possible to replicate some of the biochemical functions in similarly-sized assemblies made from inorganic nanoparticles.

Published in Nature Communications

ISSN: 2041-1723 (Online)
Publisher: Nature Portfolio
Country of publisher: United Kingdom
LCC subjects: Science
Website: https://www.nature.com/ncomms/

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