Functionalizing nanoparticles with biological molecules: developing chemistries that facilitate nanotechnology

KE Sapsford, WR Algar, L Berti, KB Gemmill… - Chemical …, 2013 - ACS Publications
Bionanotechnology has now become firmly established in its own right as one of the
principle and focused subdisciplines within nanotechnology.(1-10) Bionanotechnology can …

Resolving optical and catalytic activities in thermoresponsive nanoparticles by permanent ligation with temperature‐sensitive polymers

Y Chen, Z Wang, YW Harn, S Pan, Z Li… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Thermoresponsive nanoparticles (NPs) represent an important hybrid material comprising
functional NPs with temperature‐sensitive polymer ligands. Strikingly, significant …

Orthogonal protein decoration of DNA origami

B Saccà, R Meyer, M Erkelenz, K Kiko… - Angewandte …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
Structural DNA nanotechnology [1, 2] and the technique of DNA origami [3] enable the rapid
generation of a plethora of complex self-assembled nanostructures.[4–6] Since DNA …

Illuminating photoswitchable catalysis

BM Neilson, CW Bielawski - ACS Catalysis, 2013 - ACS Publications
Through the realization of conceptually new approaches aimed at controlling chemical
reactions using light, the field of photoswitchable catalysis has seen rapid development over …

Photoswitchable catalysis mediated by dynamic aggregation of nanoparticles

Y Wei, S Han, J Kim, S Soh… - Journal of the American …, 2010 - ACS Publications
Catalytic activity of gold nanoparticles in a hydrosilylation reaction is controlled by irradiation
with UV or visible light. When exposed to UV, the particles aggregate and the catalysis is …

Photocatalytic reactive oxygen species formation by semiconductor–metal hybrid nanoparticles. Toward light-induced modulation of biological processes

N Waiskopf, Y Ben-Shahar, M Galchenko, I Carmel… - Nano Letters, 2016 - ACS Publications
Semiconductor–metal hybrid nanoparticles manifest efficient light-induced spatial charge
separation at the semiconductor–metal interface, as demonstrated by their use for hydrogen …

A biophotoelectrocatalytic system for pollutant removal based on carbon fiber cloth supported TiO2 photoanode with oxygen vacancy defects and CuO/g-C3N4 …

J Liu, K Yan, J Zhang - Carbon, 2022 - Elsevier
As an advanced oxidation technology, photoelectrocatalysis (PEC) has been widely
explored to degrade refractory contaminants in the environment. Meanwhile, enzymatic …

Photoswitchable thioureas for the external manipulation of catalytic activity

L Osorio-Planes, C Rodriguez-Escrich… - Organic letters, 2014 - ACS Publications
A series of azobenzene-based thiourea catalysts have been developed with the aim of
achieving control over the catalytic activity by the use of light. The conceptual design of …

Apoenzyme reconstitution as a chemical tool for structural enzymology and biotechnology

L Fruk, CH Kuo, E Torres… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
Enzymes with artificial cofactors: Nondiffusible organic cofactors of enzymes can often be
replaced by artifical analogues to generate semisynthetic enzymes (see scheme). This …

A primer on the synthesis, water-solubilization, and functionalization of quantum dots, their use as biological sensing agents, and present status

CM Tyrakowski, PT Snee - Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 2014 - pubs.rsc.org
The use of nanomaterials, specifically fluorescent semiconductor quantum dots (QDs), for
biological imaging and sensing has become very topical. Here we present a historical …