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Zedong Zhang1,2, Guangchun Song3, Ji Shen1,2
1School of Materials Science and Engineering, Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan 430070, China.
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Inorganic nanozymes remain limited by rigid active-center structures, lacking the adaptive flexibility of natural enzymes. Here we report a flexible single-atom nanozyme (FSAzyme) enabled by regulation of Ga coordination. A dynamically reconstructing Ga-N3S site exhibits self-adaptive electronic modulation, allowing the FSAzyme to realize multiple enzyme-mimicking activities and versatile sensing functions. These results establish a general design strategy to introduce enzyme-like adaptivity into single-atom nanozymes.
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