Rational Design and Engineering of Quantum- Dot-Sensitized TiO_2 Nanotube Arrays for Artificial Photosynthesis

摘要

Redox enzymes can catalyze complex synthesis reactions under mild conditions but conventional catalysts rarely accomplish this task. Despite the high potential of redox enzymes for the synthesis of valuable compounds (e.g., chiral alcohols and drug intermediates), their application is hampered by the high cost of enzyme-specific cofactors that are required as a redox equivalent, such as nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NAD(P) H) and flavin adenine dinucleotide (FADH). Thus, numerous efforts have been made over the past decades to accomplish in situ cofactor regeneration from their oxidized counterpart.