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Extremes meet: changeover between pro- and antioxidant activities of Cu-based nanozymes†

Yuezhen He, ORCID logo *a   Yan Chen,a   Xue Yang,a   Chuncan Song,a   Xianyong Shen,a   Shirui Ma,a   Jian Sun,a   Feng Gao ORCID logo *a  and  Lun Wang ORCID logo a  

* Corresponding authors

a Anhui Province Key Laboratory of Biomedical Materials and Chemical Measurement, Key Laboratory of Functional Molecular Solids, Ministry of Education, Anhui Key Laboratory of Chemo/Biosensing, College of Chemistry and Materials Science, Anhui Normal University, Wuhu 241002, China
E-mail: hyz2006@ahnu.edu.cn, fgao@mail.ahnu.edu.cn

Abstract

We demonstrate that precise control of the synthetic pH enables the selective synthesis of either pro-oxidant Cu nanoclusters (CuNCs) or antioxidant CuNCs. Notably, modulating the growth temperature of CuNCs can switch their catalytic activity from a pro-oxidant to antioxidant nanozyme. This tunability may make it possible to remotely control the catalytic activities of Cu nanozymes.

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/D5CC01190F
Article type
Communication
Submitted
06 Mar 2025
Accepted
27 Apr 2025
First published
28 Apr 2025

Chem. Commun., 2025, Advance Article

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Extremes meet: changeover between pro- and antioxidant activities of Cu-based nanozymes

Y. He, Y. Chen, X. Yang, C. Song, X. Shen, S. Ma, J. Sun, F. Gao and L. Wang, Chem. Commun., 2025, Advance Article , DOI: 10.1039/D5CC01190F

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