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SUBMITTER: Gao L
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5595127 | biostudies-literature | 2017
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Gao Lizeng L Fan Kelong K Yan Xiyun X
Theranostics 20170722 13
Iron oxide nanoparticles have been widely used in many important fields due to their excellent nanoscale physical properties, such as magnetism/superparamagnetism. They are usually assumed to be biologically inert in biomedical applications. However, iron oxide nanoparticles were recently found to also possess intrinsic enzyme-like activities, and are now regarded as novel enzyme mimetics. A special term, "Nanozyme", has thus been coined to highlight the intrinsic enzymatic properties of such na ...[more]