Protein–inorganic nano hybrid sheets of Pd embedded BSA as a robust catalyst in water for oxidase mimic activity and C–C coupling reactions, and as a sustainable material for micromolar sensing of dopamine

Abstract

Protein – inorganic hybrids with tunable morphology offer excellent applications in several fields due to their versatile characteristics. Here in, we report a new hybrid material prepared using commercially available...

Prospects of nano-carbons as emerging catalysts for enzyme-mimetic applications

“…75 The above discussed heteroatoms have their own unique properties, but out of all of these, nitrogen is best because of its half shell electronic configuration and presence of a lone pair. 23,[76][77][78][79][80][81][82] The comparable atomic size of nitrogen and carbon makes it highly suitable for doping in the carbon framework. 83 These lone pairs act as electron donor sites, which make them an active site for substrate catalysis and provide a path with low activation energy.…”

Fiber-in-Tube Design of a CuFe2O4@Conducting Polymer with Synergistically Enhanced Peroxidase-like Activity for Total Antioxidant Capacity Assays

“…During the past few years, a mass of functional nanomaterials such as precious metals, metal oxides, metal sulfides, nanocarbons, metal–organic frameworks, and inorganic–organic nanohybrids have been demonstrated to possess peroxidase-like activities. − However, their catalytic activities are still significantly lower than that of natural enzymes, and there is still a lot of space for promoting the enzyme-like efficiency of those nanozymes. Recently, several strategies have been utilized to promote the enzyme-like catalytic performance of nanozymes, including the regulation of their size and morphology, modulation of the electronic structure by doping with heteroatoms and interfacial engineering, and ligand modification. − Recently, confinement catalysis has been of particular interest due to its dramatically enhanced catalytic efficiency with up to an order of magnitude .…”

La(iii)–curcumin-functionalized gold nanocomposite as a red light-activatable mitochondria-targeting PDT agent

“…Serum albumin is a carrier of drug molecules through the bloodstream. 92 Therefore, it is important for the compounds to bind with bovine serum albumin (BSA), which is considered to be a model carrier protein for human serum albumin (HSA). The BSA-binding propensities of 1 and 1-AuNPs were probed by fluorometric assay.…”