%0 Journal Article
%T Degradation of a fullerene end-capped polycaprolactone by lipase AK
%A QiYun Peng
%A Feng Kang
%A Juan Li
%A XinLin Yang
%J Chinese Science Bulletin
%@ 1861-9541
%D 2010
%I 
%R 10.1007/s11434-010-4058-7
%X Using titrimetric method, enzymatic behavior of lipase AK against fullerene end-capped polycaprolactone (C60-PCL) was studied for the first time, compared with polycaprolactone (PCL). The results showed that degradation of both C60-PCL and PCL by lipase followed Mechaelis-Menten equation, with the degradation parameters of PCL and C60-PCL were 0.75 mg mL 1 and 0.16 mg mL 1 for K m, and 0.90 mL h 1 and 0.43 mL h 1 for V max, respectively. C60-PCL had a slower degradation rate than PCL under the same conditions. These data indicated that the introduction of fullerene enabled PCL hard to be degraded by lipase.
%K fullerene end-capped polycaprolactone
%K polycaprolactone
%K lipase AK
%K titrimetry
%U http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11434-010-4058-7