Nature Communications (Apr 2021)

2D vanadium carbide MXenzyme to alleviate ROS-mediated inflammatory and neurodegenerative diseases

  • Wei Feng,
  • Xiuguo Han,
  • Hui Hu,
  • Meiqi Chang,
  • Li Ding,
  • Huijing Xiang,
  • Yu Chen,
  • Yuehua Li

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-22278-x
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 16

Abstract

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Materials with enzymatic-like activities are of interest for a wide range of applications. Here, the authors report on 2D vanadium carbide MXene nanozymes capable of mimicking multiple enzymes and demonstrate application to treat reactive oxygen species-mediated inflammatory and neurodegenerative diseases.