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Grown in a crystal

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Metal nanoparticles can be formed inside protein crystals, creating composite materials with potentially bifunctional catalytic properties.

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Figure 1: Gold nanoparticles can be formed within lysozyme crystals by growing the crystals in the presence of a molecule containing Au(I).

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Vekilov, P. Grown in a crystal. Nature Nanotech 6, 82–83 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1038/nnano.2011.9

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