An enzyme printing process that prints the product of an enzyme-catalysed reaction, but not the enzyme molecule itself, has been designed by scientists in Australia to produce bioactive paper.
Taking their inspiration from traditional printing methods such as ink jet and thermal contact printing, Wei Shen and colleagues from Monash University, Australia, have used relief and planographic printing methods to print the product of a reaction catalysed by an enzyme, in this case horseradish peroxidise (HRP)…….
Fancy reading more? Then why not read the full story online in Chemistry World. You can also download the article, which has been published in ChemComm:-
Printing enzymatic reactions
Junfei Tian and Wei Shen, Chem. Commun., 2011
DOI: 10.1039/c0cc03369c
