Nanoparticle Catalysis
Novel geometrical architectures of hybrid nanoparticle/protein complexes can be generated by chemically synthesizing monodisperse metal nanoparticles in situ in the presence of a stable, stress-related protein. Using a Monte Carlo method we investigate the growth process of the protein embedded nanopartical and its influence on the protein conformation.
This work was performed in collaboration with the group of Dr. S. Behrens (ITC, Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe).
