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Fabrication of nickel and chromium nanoparticles using the protein cage of apoferritin.
Biotechnology and bioengineering - 20 Oct 2003
Okuda Mitsuhiro, Iwahori Kenji, Yamashita Ichiro, Yoshimura Hideyuki
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The iron storage protein, apoferritin, has a cavity in which iron is oxidized and stored as a hydrated oxide core. The size of the core is about 7 nm in diameter and is regulated by the cavity size. The cavity can be utilized as a nanoreactor to grow inorganic crystals. We incubated apoferritin i...
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