Integrate nanozyme synthesis, mechanism, and application with AI-driven design

Nanozymes—nanomaterials that mimic natural enzymatic activity—are advancing rapidly across biomedicine, environmental remediation, and energy conversion. Nanozymes: From Synthesis to Applications integrates fundamental principles, synthesis strategies, characterization techniques, and mechanistic insights into a single structured reference. Organized in four parts, it moves systematically from nanomaterial properties through engineering strategies, computational modeling, and real-world applications to address the field's full scope.

The book details applications in biosensors, therapeutics, pollutant degradation, fuel cells, and pesticide detection. It examines engineering strategies and computational modeling used to tailor nanozyme catalytic function for specific targets. Coverage of toxicity assessment, scalability challenges, and AI-assisted nanozyme design provides critical perspective on translating laboratory results into practical deployment across industrial and clinical settings.

Readers will also find:

• Detailed characterization protocols for evaluating nanomaterial properties relevant to enzyme-mimetic catalytic performance across diverse substrate systems
• Mechanistic insights into how structural and compositional parameters govern nanozyme selectivity, activity, and stability under varying conditions
• Coverage of hybrid nanozyme architectures and their role in expanding catalytic versatility beyond single-component systems
• Analysis of environmental remediation applications including water purification strategies and pollutant degradation pathways using nanozyme catalysts
• Discussion of emerging trends in AI integration for accelerating rational nanozyme design and predicting catalytic behavior computationally

Designed for materials scientists, biochemists, pharmaceutical chemists, medicinal chemists, biotechnologists, and electronics engineers, this reference connects nanozyme fundamentals with translational applications. Researchers and practitioners in pharmaceutical and biotechnological industries will find targeted guidance for advancing nanozyme development from laboratory characterization through scalable, application-ready systems.

Jiangjiexing Wu, PhD, is an Associate Professor at Tianjin University, China, and former Research Associate Professor at Nanjing University. She studied at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign as a joint PhD student.

Zhicheng Zhang, PhD, is a Professor at Tianjin University, China, and associate editor of SmartMat, with editorial board roles at Nano Research, Chinese Chemical Letters, and Rare Metals. Previously a postdoctoral researcher at Tsinghua University and senior research fellow at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, he has published more than 120 peer-reviewed SCI papers on functional metal-based nanomaterials for energy conversion and catalysis.