Journal
ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES
Volume 5, Issue 15, Pages 6820-6825Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/am4018863
Keywords
cerium oxide; nanozymes; adsorption; surface charge; oxidase
Funding
- University of Waterloo
- Canadian Foundation for Innovation
- Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC)
- Ontario Ministry of Research and Innovation
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Cerium oxide nanoparticles (nanoceria) have recently emerged as a nanozyme with oxidase activity. In this work, we present a few important interfacial properties of nanoceria. First, the surface charge of nanoceria can be controlled not only by adjusting pH but also by adsorption of simple inorganic anions. Adsorption of phosphate and citrate gives negatively charged surface over a broad pH range. Second, nanoceria adsorbs DNA via the DNA phosphate backbone in a sequence-independent manner; DNA adsorption inhibits its oxidase activity. Other anionic polymers display much weaker inhibition effects. Adsorption of simple inorganic phosphate does not have the inhibition effect. Third, nanoceria is a quencher for many fluorophores. These discoveries provide an important understanding for further use of nanoceria in biosensor development, materials science, and nanotechnology.
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