journal article·2026-07

Carbon-based artificial metabzymes: Atomic-level design and precision metabolic reprogramming for disease intervention

Guoxin Wu, Xi Hu, Lei Sun, Yupei Miao, Jie Wang, Fangyuan Li, Daishun Ling

Carbon· Volume 258
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