Oxireductases in the Enzymatic Synthesis of Water-Soluble Conducting Polymers - Enzymatic Polymerisation - page 17

allows purification of the obtained conducting polymer aqueous solution from the
remaining enzyme, so that the recovered enzyme can be recycled and reused sev-
eral times.

Acknowledgments This work was supported by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innova-
tion under Contracts TEC2006-12376-C02, TEC2009-14446-C02-02, Project HOPE CSD2007-
0007 (Consolider-Ingenio 2010) and Project HYPER CSD2009-00067 (Consolider-Ingenio 2010).
Financial support from the Basque Government and the Diputacion de Gipuzkoa is gratefully
acknowledged.

References

1. Nagarajan R, Tripathy S, Kumar J, Bruno FF, Samuelson L (2000) An enzymatically
synthesized conducting molecular complex of polyaniline and poly(vinyl phosphonic acid).
Macromolecules 33(26):9542-9547
2. Liu W, Kumar J, Tripathy S, Senecal KJ, Samuelson L (1999) Enzymatically synthesized con-
ducting polyaniline. J Am Chem Soc 121(1):71-78
3. Annis BK, Narten AH, MacDiarmid AG, Richter AF (1988) A covalent bond to bromide in
HBr-treated polyaniline from X-ray diffraction. Synth Met 22(3):191-199
4. Thiyagarajan M, Samuelson LA, Kumar J, Cholli AL (2003) Helical conformational specificity
of enzymatically synthesized water-soluble conducting polyaniline nanocomposites. J Am
Chem Soc 125(38):11502-11503
5. Wang X, Schreuder-Gibson H, Downey M, Tripathy S, Samuelson L (1999) Conductive fibers
from enzymatically synthesized polyaniline. Synth Met 107(22):117-121
6. Liu W,

Cholli AL, Kumar J, Tripathy S, Samuelson L (2001) Mechanistic study of

the peroxidase-catalyzed polymerization of sulfonated phenol. Macromolecules 34(11):

3522-3526
7. Cruz-Silva R, Romero-García J, Angulo-Sanchez J, Ledezma-Perez J, Arias-Martín E,
Moggio I, Flores-Loyola E (2005) Template-free enzymatic synthesis of electrically conduct-
ing polyaniline using soybean peroxidase. Eur Polym J 41(5):1129-1135
8. Xu P, Singh A, Kaplan DL (2006) Enzymatic catalysis in the synthesis of polyanilines and
derivatives of polyanilines. Enzyme Catal Synth Polym 194:69-94
9. Gross RA, Kumar A, Kalra B (2001) Polymer synthesis by in vitro enzyme catalysis. Chem
Rev 101:2097-2124
10. Kausaite A, Ramanaviciene A, Ramanavicius A (2009) Polyaniline synthesis catalysed by
glucose oxidase. Polymer 50(8):1846-1851
11. Saunders BC, Holmes-Siedle AG, Stark BP (1964) Peroxidase: the properties and uses of a
versatile enzyme and of some related catalysts. Butterworth, London
12. Alva KS, Kumar J, Marx KA, Tripathy SK (1997) Enzymatic synthesis and characterization
of a novel water-soluble polyaniline: poly(2,5-diaminobenzenesulfonate). Macromolecules
30(14):4024-4029
13. Alva KS, Marx KA, Kumar J, Tripathy SK (1996) Biochemical synthesis of water soluble
polyanilines: poly( p -aminobenzoic acid). Macromol Rapid Commun 17(12):859-863
14. Liu W, Wang JD, Ma L, Liu XH, Sun XD, Cheng YH et al (1995) Enzymatic polymerization
of p -phenylphenol in aqueous micelles. Ann NY Acad Sci 750(1):138-145
15. Rao AM, John VT, Gonzalez RD, Akkara JA, Kaplan DL (1993) Catalytic and interfacial
aspects of enzymatic polymer synthesis in reversed micellar systems. Biotechnol Bioeng
41(5):531-540
16. Premachandran RS, Banerjee S, John VT, McPherson GL, Akkara JA, Kaplan DL (1997) The
enzymatic synthesis of thiol-containing polymers to prepare polymer-CdS nanocomposites.
Chem Mater 9(6):1342-1347