Metal Nanocluster Enzyme‐catalysis

Nanozymes are widely used in various fields due to their natural enzyme properties and improved stability. Nanozymes have different types of catalytic activity depending on their composition, structure, size, and morphology. Improving catalytic activity and selectivity of nanozymes is a major task in this research area. Metal nanoclusters with precise structures have excellent chemical and physical properties, and can realize the precise regulation of quantity, atomic type, surface ligands, and position at the atomic level, and then guide and adjust their own properties, thus being an ideal nanozyme material. Meanwhile, the atomically precise structure is beneficial for revealing the mechanism of metal nanocluster enzyme-catalyzed reactions, which can aid in the iterative optimization of enzyme performance in nanoclusters, create gold nanoclusters that possess high enzyme catalytic activity and excellent selectivity, and broaden their usage in environmental monitoring. This chapter focuses on enzymic catalytic performance of metal nanoclusters.