Progress and Obstacles in Employing Carbon Quantum Dots for Sustainable Wastewater Treatment

R Khan, S Shukla, M Kumar, D Barceló, A Zuorro… - Environmental …, 2024 - Elsevier
We explored the potential of carbon quantum dots (CQDs) as novel materials for wastewater
treatment and their role towards environmental sustainability. The advantages of CQDs over …

Advances in the world of bacterial microcompartments

AM Stewart, KL Stewart, TO Yeates, TA Bobik - Trends in biochemical …, 2021 - cell.com
Bacterial microcompartments (MCPs) are extremely large (100–400 nm) and diverse
proteinaceous organelles that compartmentalize multistep metabolic pathways, increasing …

Caffeic acid modified nanomicelles inhibit articular cartilage deterioration and reduce disease severity in experimental inflammatory arthritis

A Vyawahare, R Prakash, C Jori, A Ali, SS Raza… - ACS …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Inflammation plays an important role in the development of rheumatoid arthritis (RA). NR4A1
is an anti-inflammatory orphan nuclear receptor involved in protection from inflammatory …

Chemodiversity of soil organic matters determines biodegradation of polychlorinated biphenyls by a graphene oxide-assisted bacterial agent

R Li, Y Teng, Y Sun, Y Xu, Z Wang, X Wang… - Journal of Hazardous …, 2023 - Elsevier
A promising strategy for degrading persistent organic pollutants (POPs) in soil is amendment
with nanomaterial-assisted functional bacteria. However, the influence of soil organic matter …

Hollow mesoporous carbon-based enzyme nanoreactor for the confined and interfacial biocatalytic synthesis of phytosterol esters

S Zhang, H Hou, B Zhao, Q Zhou, R Tang… - Journal of Agricultural …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Rationally designing carriers to obtain efficient and stable immobilized enzymes for the
production of food raw materials is always a challenge. In this work, hollow cube carbon …

A broader‐scope analysis of the catalytic reduction of nitrophenols and azo dyes with noble metal nanoparticles

LR Shultz, L Hu, K Preradovic, MJ Beazley… - …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
In addition to the broad environmental implications associated with the removal of
nitroaromatics from industrial effluent, the catalytic reduction of 4‐nitrophenol (4NP) has …

Prokaryotic Organelles: Bacterial Microcompartments in E. coli and Salmonella

KL Stewart, AM Stewart, TA Bobik - EcoSal Plus, 2020 - Am Soc Microbiol
Bacterial microcompartments (MCPs) are proteinaceous organelles consisting of a
metabolic pathway encapsulated within a selectively permeable protein shell. Hundreds of …

Innate and engineered attributes of bacterial microcompartments for applications in bio-materials science

SM Rose, A Radhakrishnan, S Sinha - Journal of Materials Chemistry …, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Bacterial microcompartments (BMCs) are sophisticated all-protein bionanoreactors widely
spread in bacterial phyla. BMCs facilitate diverse metabolic reactions, which assist bacterial …

Graphene oxide quantum dots stimulate indigenous bacteria to remove oil contamination

L Mu, Q Zhou, Y Zhao, X Liu, X Hu - Journal of hazardous materials, 2019 - Elsevier
Oil spills occur frequently worldwide, resulting in severe damage to water and to human
health. Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) are the primary toxic components in oil …

Protein morphology drives the structure and catalytic activity of bio-inorganic hybrids

H Kaur, NK Bari, A Garg, S Sinha - International Journal of Biological …, 2021 - Elsevier
Bio-hybrid materials have received a lot of attention in view of their bio-mimicking nature.
One such biomimetic material with catalytic activity are the protein derived floral nanohybrid …