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Exploring Nanozymes for Organic Substrates: Building Nano-organelles

Xi Liu1, Meng Gao1, Yunlong Qin2

  • 1State Key Laboratory of Radiation Medicine and Protection, School for Radiological and Interdisciplinary Sciences (RA-DX), Collaborative Innovation Center of Radiological Medicine of Jiangsu Higher Education Institutions, Suzhou Medical College, Soochow University, Suzhou, 215123, Jiangsu, China.

Angewandte Chemie (International Ed. in English)
|July 9, 2024
PubMed

Keywords:
BiocatalysisNanobiologyNanomaterialNanozymeStructure-activity relationship

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