Mimicking hydrogenases: From biomimetics to artificial enzymes

Biomimetics: mimicking and inspired-by biology

The evolution of nature led to the introduction of highly effective and power efficient biological mechanisms. Imitating these mechanisms offers enormous potentials for the improvement of our life and the tools we use. Humans have always made efforts to imitate nature and we are increasingly reaching levels of advancement that it becomes significantly easier to imitate, copy, and adapt biologic...

Biological adhesives: from biology to biomimetics

Artificial Enzymes

Artificial enzymes.

Simple chemical catalysts have been designed to achieve some desirable features of enzymes. These novel catalysts are not proteins, but they may incorporate the typical enzyme catalytic groups and they achieve selectivity in their reactions by use of geometric control, as do enzymes. Catalysts that carry out geometrically controlled chlorinations of aromatic rings and steroids have been constru...

World Congress on Biomimetics, Artificial Muscles and Nano-Bio 2007.