Air-stable radical organic cage

Stable over 6 months in air

An organic cage bearing air-stable radicals photogenerated in its skeleton, and encapsulating Au clusters, provides spatially separated dual active sites as cascade nanozymes.

Yang, Xiaodong · Ya-Jun, Zhang · Zhou, Junhao · Liu, Ling · Sun, Jianke

Small 2023

Advantages

radicals stable over 6 months in air

decompose H2O2 into OH·

encapsulated Au clusters (glucose oxidase mimics)

dual active sites spatially isolated