Urease as a nanoreactor for growing crystalline ZnO nanoshells at room temperature

被引:70
作者
de la Rica, Roberto [1 ]
Matsui, Hiroshi [1 ]
机构
[1] CUNY Hunter Coll, Dept Chem & Biochem, New York, NY 10065 USA
关键词
biomimetic synthesis; crystal growth; enzymes; nanostructures; semiconductors;
D O I
10.1002/anie.200801181
中图分类号
O6 [化学];
学科分类号
0703 ;
摘要
Reactor core: Hybrid core-shell urease-ZnO nanostructures have been synthesized (see picture). The crystallization takes place under mild biological conditions, thus ensuring its easy implementation in other room-temperature syntheses of oxide semiconductor materials. (Chemical Equation Presented). © 2008 Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA.
引用
收藏
页码:5415 / 5417
页数:3
相关论文
共 53 条
[1]  
[Anonymous], 1971, The Enzymes
[2]   Cu nanocrystal growth on peptide nanotubes by biomineralization: Size control of Cu nanocrystals by tuning peptide conformation [J].
Banerjee, IA ;
Yu, LT ;
Matsui, H .
PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, 2003, 100 (25) :14678-14682
[3]   Silver nanoparticle and nanowire formation by microtubule templates [J].
Behrens, S ;
Wu, J ;
Habicht, W ;
Unger, E .
CHEMISTRY OF MATERIALS, 2004, 16 (16) :3085-3090
[4]   DNA-templated assembly and electrode attachment of a conducting silver wire [J].
Braun, E ;
Eichen, Y ;
Sivan, U ;
Ben-Yoseph, G .
NATURE, 1998, 391 (6669) :775-778
[5]   A genetic analysis of crystal growth [J].
Brown, S ;
Sarikaya, M ;
Johnson, E .
JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY, 2000, 299 (03) :725-735
[6]   Synthesis, isolation, and chemical reactivity studies of nanocrystalline zinc oxide [J].
Carnes, CL ;
Klabunde, KJ .
LANGMUIR, 2000, 16 (08) :3764-3772
[7]   Top-down meets bottom-up: Dip-pen nanolithography and DNA-directed assembly of nanoscale electrical circuits [J].
Chung, SW ;
Ginger, DS ;
Morales, MW ;
Zhang, ZF ;
Chandrasekhar, V ;
Ratner, MA ;
Mirkin, CA .
SMALL, 2005, 1 (01) :64-69
[8]   Hybrid ZnO-Dye hollow spheres with new optical properties from a self-assembly process based on Evans blue dye and cetyltrimethylammonium bromide [J].
Cong, Huai-Ping ;
Yu, Shu-Hong .
ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS, 2007, 17 (11) :1814-1820
[9]   DNA-templated fabrication of 1D parallel and 2D crossed metallic nanowire arrays [J].
Deng, ZX ;
Mao, CD .
NANO LETTERS, 2003, 3 (11) :1545-1548
[10]   Au nanocrystal growth on nanotubes controlled by conformations and charges of sequenced peptide templates [J].
Djalali, R ;
Chen, YF ;
Matsui, H .
JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY, 2003, 125 (19) :5873-5879