General Route to Functional Metal Oxide Nanosuspensions, Enzymatically Deshelled Nanoparticles, and Their Application in Photocatalytic Water Splitting

A low-cost, green method uses the biopolymer xyloglucan to prepare a range of stable nanoparticle nanosuspensions followed by enzyme treatment to give deshelled functional zinc oxide nanorods, magnetite, or cobalt oxide nanoparticles. Application of xyloglucan-stabilized metal oxide nanoparticles in photocatalytic water splitting is also evaluated. Detailed facts of importance to specialist readers are published as ”Supporting Information”. Such documents are peer-reviewed, but not copy-edited or typeset. They are made available as submitted by the authors. Please note: The publisher is not responsible for the content or functionality of any supporting information supplied by the authors. Any queries (other than missing content) should be directed to the corresponding author for the article.