Remotely activating biological materials with nanocomposites

Mon, 02 Dec 2013 19:00:00 -0500

This is the first study of its kind that has demonstrated the use of localized heating with iron oxide nanoparticles to enhance the activity of thermophilic enzymes. It is envision that this method could be expanded for personalized therapeutics, bioremediation, catalysis, filtering devices, separations, etc. In short, this application could be potentially applied to any system where you need to turn on and off bioactivity.