title: Enzymatic Inverse Opal Hydrogel Particles for Biocatalyst.
abstract: Enzymatic carriers have a demonstrated value for chemical reactions and industrial applications. Here, we present a novel kind of inverse opal hydrogel particles as the enzymatic carriers. The particles were negatively replicated from spherical colloidal crystal templates by using magnetic nanoparticles tagged acrylamide hydrogel. Thus, they were endowed with the features of monodispersity, small volume, complete penetrating structure, and controllable motion, which are all beneficial for improving the efficiency of biocatalysis. In addition, due to the ordered porous nanostructure, the inverse opal hydrogel particles were imparted with unique photonic band gaps (PBGs) and vivid structural colors for encoding varieties of immobilized enzymes and for constructing a multienzymes biocatalysis system. These features of the inverse opal hydrogel particles indicate that they are ideal enzymatic carriers for biocatalysis.
authors.affiliation: State Key Laboratory of Bioelectronics, School of Biological Science and Medical Engineering, Southeast University , Nanjing 210096, China.
authors.forename: Huan
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.affiliation: State Key Laboratory of Bioelectronics, School of Biological Science and Medical Engineering, Southeast University , Nanjing 210096, China.
authors.forename: Hongcheng
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Gu
authors.affiliation: State Key Laboratory of Bioelectronics, School of Biological Science and Medical Engineering, Southeast University , Nanjing 210096, China.
authors.forename: Zhuoyue
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Chen
authors.affiliation: State Key Laboratory of Bioelectronics, School of Biological Science and Medical Engineering, Southeast University , Nanjing 210096, China.
authors.forename: Luoran
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Shang
authors.affiliation: State Key Laboratory of Bioelectronics, School of Biological Science and Medical Engineering, Southeast University , Nanjing 210096, China.
authors.forename: Ze
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Zhao
authors.affiliation: State Key Laboratory of Bioelectronics, School of Biological Science and Medical Engineering, Southeast University , Nanjing 210096, China.
authors.forename: Zhongze
authors.identifier: http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8926-7710
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Gu
authors.affiliation: State Key Laboratory of Bioelectronics, School of Biological Science and Medical Engineering, Southeast University , Nanjing 210096, China.
authors.forename: Yuanjin
authors.identifier: http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9242-4000
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Zhao
keywords: biocatalysis; hydrogel; inverse opal; particles; photonic crystal