Peroxidase Like Activity of Quinic Acid Stabilized Copper Oxide Nanosheets

Water-soluble copper oxide nanosheets (CuO nanosheets) were synthesized via a chemical reduction method and used as peroxidase enzyme mimetics. The synthesized CuO nanosheets were characterized by using XRD and TEM. The obtained CuO nanosheets in fact possessed an intrinsic enzyme like catalytic activity identical to that found in natural peroxidases, which have applications as detection tools and in water treatment.