Grunwald P. (ed.) Biocatalysis and Nanotechnology

Pan Stanford Publishing Pte. Ltd., 2017. — 863 p. — ISBN: 978-981-4613-69-9. — (Jenny Stanford Series on Biocatalysis Volume 3)
Nanobiocatalysis has rapidly developed into a subarea of enzyme biotechnology. It combines the advances in nanotechnology that have generated nanoscale materials of different sizes, shapes, and physicochemical properties, and the excellent characteristics of biocatalysts into an innovative technology. This book provides an overview of the various relations between nanotechnology and biocatalysis. It discusses the fabrication and application of nanomaterials for the immobilization of enzymes used in the sustainable production of goods and chemicals. Nanosupports have several advantages compared with bulk solid materials because of their high surface area, which results in a significantly reduced mass transfer limitation and comparatively high enzyme loading. These characteristics are also of great use for applications in the fields of enzymatic biosensors, biofuel cells, bioelectronics, and photoelectrochemical analyte detection, where conductive nanomaterials improve the rate of electron transfer. The book also presents an overview of nanotoxicology and covers nanostructured enzyme catalysis in organic solvents and its potential application for biodiesel production, probing of enzymatic activity, and identification of enzyme functions of inorganic nanoparticles as enzyme mimics.Fundamentals of Nanotechnology
Biocatalysis: An Introduction
Environmentally Benign Nanomaterial Synthesis Mediated by Culture Broths
Rational Design of Enzyme-Polymer Biocatalysts
Biological Strategies in Nanobiocatalyst Assembly
Graphene-Based Nanobiocatalytic System
Immobilization of Biocatalysts onto Nanosupports: Advantages for Green Technologies
Enzyme Immobilization on Membrane and Its Application in Bioreactors
Potential Applications of Nanobiocatalysis for Industrial Biodiesel Production
Enzymogel Nanoparticles Chemistry for Highly Efficient Phase Boundary Biocatalysis
Recent Advances in Nanostructured Enzyme Catalysis for Chemical Synthesis in Organic Solvents
Probing Enzymatic Activity by Combining Luminescent Quantum Dots, Gold Nanoparticles and Energy Transfer
FRET Reporter Molecules for Identification of Enzyme Functions
Quantum Dot Architectures on Electrodes for Photoelectrochemical Analyte Detection
Inorganic Nanoparticles as Enzyme Mimics
Enzyme Nanocapsules for Glucose Sensing and Insulin Delivery
Nanostructured Materials for Enzymatic Biofuel Cells
Enzymatic Biofuel Cells on Porous Nanostructures
Nanoplasmonic Biosensors
Enzyme Biocomputing: Logic Gates and Logic Networks to Interface and Control Materials
Functional Nano-Bio Conjugates for Targeted Cellular Uptake and Specific Nanoparticle–Protein Interactions
Cell-Free Expression–Based Microarrays: Applications and Future Prospects
Overview of the Current Knowledge and Challenges Associated With Human Exposure to Nanomaterials