Biocatalysts smart

In this chapter, we have reviewed some recent progress on the developments of photonic sensitive materials and their apphcations, including photoinduced surface wettability switches and smart-gating nanochannels (Wen et al., 2010 Wen, Liu, et al., 2012 Zhang et al., 2012). We also listed different photonic biomaterials used in opto-bioelectronic devices, biocatalysts, biosensors, and the biomedical engineering field. 

Roy, I., Sharma, S., Gupta, M. (2004). Smart biocatalysts design and applications. Advancer in Biochemical Engineering/Biotechnology, 86,159. 

An ample number of in vivo biochemical processes rely on redox reactions, as such reactions stay at the heart of many metabolic pathways, such as cellular respiration and photosynthesis. For this purpose Nature has developed a broad portfolio of enzymes (biocatalysts) that are able to ubiquitously catalyze those reactions in a highly efficient and selective way, dealing with the complexity of molecules and metabolism, and thus adapting life to different and challenging environments. In some of these cases, the problematic of the electron transport has been sorted out by introducing organic cofactors - as electron carriers - whereas in other cases, other smart alternatives have been evolved to set up natural cofactor-free redox processes [1.2]. 

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