Nano-Sized Iron Sulfide: Structure, Synthesis, Properties, and Biomedical Applications

Ye Yuan; Liping Wang; Lizeng Gao

doi:10.3389/fchem.2020.00818

Nano-Sized Iron Sulfide: Structure, Synthesis, Properties, and Biomedical Applications

Front Chem. 2020 Sep 10:8:818. doi: 10.3389/fchem.2020.00818. eCollection 2020.

Authors

Ye Yuan^{1

2

3}, Liping Wang^{1

2}, Lizeng Gao^{3

4}

Affiliations

¹ Key Laboratory for Molecular Enzymology and Engineering, The Ministry of Education, Jilin University, Changchun, China.
² School of Life Sciences, Jilin University, Changchun, China.
³ CAS Engineering Laboratory for Nanozyme, Institute of Biophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China.
⁴ Nanozyme Medical Center, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, China.

Abstract

Nano-sized iron sulfides have attracted intense research interest due to the variety of their types, structures, and physicochemical properties. In particular, nano-sized iron sulfides exhibit enzyme-like activity by mimicking natural enzymes that depend on an iron-sulfur cluster as cofactor, extending their potential for applications in biomedicine. The present review principally summarizes the synthesis, properties and applications in biomedical fields, demonstrating that nano-sized iron sulfides have considerable potential for improving human health and quality of life.

Keywords: biomedical applications; enzyme-like activities; nano-sized iron sulfide; structure; synthesis.

Publication types

Review