Engineered Nanozymes for Emerging Biomedical Applications
A special issue of Micromachines (ISSN 2072-666X). This special issue belongs to the section "B：Biology and Biomedicine".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 November 2023) | Viewed by 347
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Engineeringly designed nanostructures including nanoparticles, nanomaterials and composites display ‘enzyme-like’ activities (thereby having been named nanozymes) and have widely been explored as an alternative to natural enzymes for diverse applications, including biosensor, environmental, energy and biomedical applications, by virtue of their advantages of multienzyme-like characteristics, multifunctionalities, high catalytic stability, long storage and facile and easy preparation. In recent times, the engineering of nanozymes has included methods such as refining catalytic structures by mimicking natural enzymes, creating super-active surfaces, simulating behavior changes, integrating cooperative properties through pores and channeling, mimicking the specific biological processes, and living organisms that maximize their functionalities and activities for diagnostic, therapeutic, and imaging applications. However, most of the reported nanozymes have been synthesized on a trial-and-error basis and yet lack the ability to mimic natural enzyme structures and functionalities, which limits their catalytic efficacy, substrate specificity and practical biomedical applications under physiological conditions. Accordingly, this Special Issue seeks to showcase research papers and review articles that focus on novel methodological developments of nanozyme synthesis, different engineering approaches for enhancing intrinsic catalytic activities, nanozyme-based biosensors, diagnostics design and therapeutic applications.
Dr. Mostafa Masud
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- nanozyme
- nanoengineering of nanozyme
- biomimetic nanozyme
- mechanism
- antioxidant/antimicrobial activity
- biosensor
- diagnostics
- therapeutics
- imaging
