Barrier-free liquid condensates of nanocatalysts as effective concentrators of catalysis
Silky Bedi1, Gaurav Kumar1, S M Rose1
1Chemical Biology Unit, Institute of Nano Science and Technology, Sector-81, Knowledge City, Sahibzada Ajit Singh Nagar, Punjab, 140306, India. sinhas@inst.ac.in.
Chemical Communications (Cambridge, England)
|July 12, 2022
Abstract:
Traditional methods of molecular confinement have physicochemical barriers that restrict the free passage of substrates/products. Here, we explored liquid-liquid phase separation as a method to restrain protein-metal nanocomposites within barrier-free condensates. Confinement within liquid droplets was independent of the protein's native conformation and amplified the catalytic efficiency of metal nanocatalysts by one order of magnitude.
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