An enzymatic kinetics investigation into the significantly enhanced activity of functionalized gold nanoparticles.

Chem Commun (Camb)

Institute of Nanotechnology, and Department of Materials Science and Engineering, National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan.

Published: November 2008

Kinetic and thermodynamic studies reveal that the property of significantly enhanced catalytic activity with colloidal stability is attributed to an efficacious means of tuning enzyme-substrate association by varying with the rate constants in the presence of functionalized gold nanoparticles.

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