Issue 48, 2020
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Chemical Science

Engineering of chiral nanomaterials for biomimetic catalysis

Hongyu Zhang,a   Si Li,a   Aihua Qu,a   Changlong Hao,a   Maozhong Sun,a   Liguang Xu,a   Chuanlai Xu ORCID logo a  and  Hua Kuang ORCID logo *a  

* Corresponding authors

a International Joint Research Laboratory for Biointerface and Biodetection, State Key Lab of Food Science and Technology, School of Food Science and Technology, Jiangnan University, Wuxi, Jiangsu, P. R. China
E-mail: kuangh@jiangnan.edu.cn

Abstract

Chiral nanomaterial-based biomimetic catalysts can trigger a similar biological effect to natural catalysts and exhibit high performance in biological applications. Especially, their active center similarity and substrate selectivity promoted their superior biocatalytic activity. Here, modification of critical elements, such as size, morphology, nanocrystal facets, chiral surface and active sites, for controlling the catalytic efficiency of individual chiral nanoparticles (NPs) and chiral nanoassemblies has been demonstrated, which had a synergistic effect on overcoming the defects of pre-existing nanocatalysts. Noticeably, application of external forces (light or magnetism) has resulted in obvious enhancement in biocatalytic efficiency. Chiral nanomaterials served as preferable biomimetic nanocatalysts due to their special structural configuration and chemical constitution advantages. Furthermore, the current challenges and future research directions of the preparation of high-performance bioinspired chiral nanomaterials for biological applications are discussed.

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/D0SC03245J
Article type
Perspective
Submitted
11 Jun 2020
Accepted
18 Oct 2020
First published
21 Oct 2020
This article is Open Access

All publication charges for this article have been paid for by the Royal Society of Chemistry
Creative Commons BY-NC license

Chem. Sci., 2020,11, 12937-12954

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Engineering of chiral nanomaterials for biomimetic catalysis

H. Zhang, S. Li, A. Qu, C. Hao, M. Sun, L. Xu, C. Xu and H. Kuang, Chem. Sci., 2020, 11, 12937 DOI: 10.1039/D0SC03245J

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