Issue 29, 2010
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Chemical Communications

Using bacterial cell growth to template catalytic asymmetry†

Bryan Kaehr*a  and  C. Jeffrey Brinkerabc  

* Corresponding authors

a Sandia National Laboratories, Advanced Materials Lab, USA
E-mail: bjkaehr@sandia.gov

b Center for Micro-Engineered Materials, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, USA

c Departments of Chemical and Nuclear Engineering and Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, University of New Mexico, NM, USA

Abstract

We report an approach to position gold nanoparticle catalysts for metal reduction asymmetrically on a biological template (E. coli) by exploiting the polarity of the bacterial cell envelope undergoing growth and division.

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/C0CC00468E
Article type
Communication
Submitted
18 Mar 2010
Accepted
24 May 2010
First published
11 Jun 2010

Chem. Commun., 2010,46, 5268-5270

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B. Kaehr and C. J. Brinker, Chem. Commun., 2010, 46, 5268 DOI: 10.1039/C0CC00468E

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