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Title

Nanoassembly of biocompatible microcapsules for urease encapsulation and their use as biomimetic reactors

Author(s)

Yu, Aimin;  Gentle, Ian;  Lu, Gaoqing;  Caruso, Frank

Abstract

Biocompatible polypeptide capsules with high enzyme loading and activity prepared by templating mesoporous silica spheres were used as biomimetic reactors for performing CaCO3 synthesis exclusively inside the capsule interior via urease-catalyzed urea hydrolysis.

Publication type

Journal article

Source

Chemical Communications, No. 20 (2006), pp. 2150-2152

Publication year

2006

FOR Code(s)

03 Chemical Sciences;  09 Engineering

Keyword(s)

Biocompatibility;  Biocompatible materials;  Biomimetic materials;  Biomimetics;  Calcium carbonate;  Catalysis;  Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy;  Hydrolysis;  Immobilised enzymes;  Microcapsules;  Microencapsulation;  Microscopy electron transmission;  Microspheres;  Nanotechnology;  Polyglutamic acid;  Polylysine;  Polypeptide;  Reactor;  Silicon dioxide;  Urea;  Urease;  X-ray diffraction

Publisher

Royal Society of Chemistry

ISSN

1359-7345

Publisher URL

http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/b601490a

Copyright

Copyright © The Royal Society of Chemistry 2006. The authors give the Royal Society of Chemistry the exclusive right and licence throughout the world to edit, adapt, translate, reproduce and publish the Paper in all formats, in all media and by all means (whether now existing or in future devised). Published version of the paper reproduced here for non-commercial purposes only in accordance with the copyright policy of the publisher. This paper is made available for personal use only; no further reuse is permitted.

Research Projects

Molecular dynamics simulation of nano composites, Australian Research Council grant number CE0348243

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