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ArticleAngewandte Chemie (International ed. in English)2025

Hooked for Decay with Hydrophobic-Coated Magnetic Beads to Grapple and Disintegrate Nanoplastics.

Dong Wang, Maochao Mao, Maximilian Lorberg, Julian Luka, Marian Bienstein, Jun Okuda, Ulrich Schwaneberg

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Article in Angewandte Chemie (International ed. in English), 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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3 citing papers in PubMed.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors.

Dong Wang *Institute of Biotechnology, RWTH Aachen University, Worringerweg 3, 52074, Aachen, Germany.
Maochao Mao *Institute of Biotechnology, RWTH Aachen University, Worringerweg 3, 52074, Aachen, Germany.ORCID https://orcid.org/0009-0002-5431-4323
Maximilian LorbergInstitute of Technical and Macromolecular Chemistry, RWTH Aachen University, Worringerweg 2, 52074, Aachen, Germany.
Julian LukaInstitute of Biotechnology, RWTH Aachen University, Worringerweg 3, 52074, Aachen, Germany.
Marian BiensteinInstitute of Biotechnology, RWTH Aachen University, Worringerweg 3, 52074, Aachen, Germany.
Jun OkudaInstitute of Inorganic Chemistry, RWTH Aachen University, Landoltweg 1, 52074, Aachen, Germany.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1636-5464
Ulrich SchwanebergInstitute of Biotechnology, RWTH Aachen University, Worringerweg 3, 52074, Aachen, Germany.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4026-701X

Funding

ChimeraX -- Next Generation Visualization and Analysis Software for Multiscale ModelingR01GM129325 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO · PI FERRIN, THOMAS E · 2018 to 2025
$5.2M
German Federal Ministry of Education and Research FKZ 031B1134CNIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM129325
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Degradation of synthetic polymers inevitably leads to the formation of nanoplastics (NPs), and recent studies associate health risks with NPs. Therefore, catching and degrading NPs are important to manage environmental and human health risks. In this study, we developed a biohybrid catalyst system with two functionalities to capture (Hook) and degrade (Decay) NPs. The biohybrid catalyst is composed of a Grubbs-Hoveyda (GH) type cofactor conjugated to the material-binding peptide LCI_F16C, which immobilizes the GH-cofactor onto superparamagnetic iron oxide nanoparticles (SPIONs). The anchored biohybrid catalyst initiates a ring-opening metathesis polymerization to generate a hydrophobic polynorbornene film around iron oxide core, which enables to efficiently capture and remove a broad spectrum of hydrophobic NPs, including polypropylene, polyethylene, polystyrene (PS), poly(ethylene terephthalate), poly(methyl methacrylate), and styrene-butadiene rubber (SBR), with hydrophobic interaction as the main driving force. This hydrophobic coating facilitated rapid adsorption of PS-COOH

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Biohybrid catalystNanoplasticsSBR degradationSPIONsWater remediation

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PMID40827994
PMCPMC12462746

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