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Biocatalysis

Unmasked by stretching

Nature Materials volume 8, pages 704–705 (2009)Cite this article

The biocatalytic activity of enzyme-loaded responsive layer-by-layer films can be switched on and off by simple mechanical stretching. Soft materials could thus be used to trigger biochemical reactions under mechanical action, with potential therapeutic applications.

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Figure 1: Schematic of the mechanically sensitive biocatalytic material.

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  1. Eugenia Kharlampieva and Vladimir V. Tsukruk are at the School of Materials Science and Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia 30332, USA.,

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