title: Using Inorganic Nanomaterials to Endow Biocatalytic Systems with Unique Features.
abstract: The rapid growth in nanotechnology and biotechnology offers a wealth of opportunities for the combination of natural enzymes with different kinds of nanomaterial. Here, we highlight recent advances in constructing nanomaterial-incorporated enzymes that integrate the specific recognition and biocatalytic properties of enzymes with the attractive electronic, optical, magnetic, and catalytic properties of nanomaterials. These composite materials have some extra features that are not possessed by the enzymes themselves, such as electron transfer mediated by nanoparticles, enzyme delivery, remote activation and/or deactivation of enzymatic activity, and fabrication of catalytic entities with complementary functions. Additionally, we describe briefly the current challenges and future development of unique enzyme-nanomaterial hybrid systems. We hope that this review will help to accelerate further progress in this promising field.
authors.affiliation: Research Institute for Biomimetics and Soft Matter, Fujian Provincial Key Laboratory for Soft Functional Materials Research, Department of Physics, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361005, China. Electronic address: linyouhui@xmu.edu.cn.
authors.forename: Youhui
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Lin
authors.affiliation: Department of Physics, National University of Singapore, 2 Science Drive 3, Singapore, 117542, Singapore.
authors.forename: Zhengwei
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Chen
authors.affiliation: Research Institute for Biomimetics and Soft Matter, Fujian Provincial Key Laboratory for Soft Functional Materials Research, Department of Physics, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361005, China; Department of Physics, National University of Singapore, 2 Science Drive 3, Singapore, 117542, Singapore. Electronic address: phyliuxy@nus.edu.sg.
authors.forename: Xiang Yang
authors.initials: XY
authors.lastname: Liu
mesh_terms: D055162:Biocatalysis; D055598:Chemical Phenomena; D004337:Drug Carriers; D004798:Enzymes / Q000378:metabolism*; D007287:Inorganic Chemicals; D049329:Nanostructures
chemical_list: D004337:Drug Carriers; D004798:Enzymes; D007287:Inorganic Chemicals
keywords: bionanotechnology; catalyst; nanomaterial; natural enzyme; property