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NIR Light-Promoted Whole-Cell Catalysis Based on a Light-Harvesting Blackbody Bioreactor

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Whole-cell catalysis, which utilizes enzymes expressed in whole organism (e.g. bacteria and fungi) as the catalyst, is a specific mode of biocatalysis. Compared with pure enzyme catalysis, the catalysis with whole-cell catalysts is more cost-effective. However, in the process of whole-cell catalysis, heat treatment is often necessary due to the high optimum temperature of the enzyme. To enable efficient industrial application of whole-cell catalysis, an environmental friendly heating approach is highly desired. Inspired by the light harvest by blackbody materials, in this paper, we introduced a photothermal approach for harnessing the photon energy for enhanced whole-cell catalysis. A blackbody porous sponge (BPS) with excellent photothermal conversion efficiency was prepared as a bioreactor. Escherichia coli expressed with a thermophilic enzyme (β-glucosidase) was utilized as a model whole-cell catalyst. Moreover, the photothermal properties of the BPS and light-assisted whole-cell catalysis were systematically investigated, demonstrating promising application prospects.

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This work was financially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) (22007083); Zhejiang Provincial Innovation Center of Advanced Textile Technology and the Fundamental Research Funds of Shaoxing Keqiao Research Institute of Zhejiang Sci-Tech University (KYY2022004C); the Fundamental Research Funds of Shengzhou Innovation Research Institute of Zhejiang Sci-Tech University (SYY2023B000004).

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  1. Key Laboratory of Surface and Interface Science of Polymer Materials of Zhejiang Province, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Zhejiang Sci-Tech University, Hangzhou, 310018, China

    **hui Gu, Qisi Li, Mengting Cao, **aojia Zhang, **npei Ding, Haiyan Chen, Nan Wang & Zhijun Zhang

  2. Shaoxing Keqiao Research Institute of Zhejiang Sci-Tech University, Shaoxing, 312000, China

    Zhijun Zhang

  3. Shengzhou Innovation Research Institute of Zhejiang Sci-Tech University, Shengzhou, 312400, China

    Zhijun Zhang

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Gu, J., Li, Q., Cao, M. et al. NIR Light-Promoted Whole-Cell Catalysis Based on a Light-Harvesting Blackbody Bioreactor. J. Anal. Test. 7, 237–244 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s41664-023-00260-4

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