Issue 20, 2017

Polydopamine-mediated preparation of an enzyme-immobilized microreactor for the rapid production of wax ester

Abstract

In our study, a polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE) open-tubular enzyme-immobilized microreactor has been successfully prepared using dopamine polymerization and multi-layer deposition. The polydopamine layer was utilized as a primer layer in the microchannel to provide PTFE surface reactable groups, and polyethylenimine and Candida antarctica lipase B were alternatively adsorbed on the PTFE surface by the layer-by-layer method. The lipase loading kept increasing as the number of layers increased and reached a plateau at the 8th layer. The formation of multilayers and increase of enzyme loading were described and explained by the water contact angle measurement, Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FI-IR), and X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy, while the morphological characteristics were observed using Atomic Force Microscopy (AFM) and field emission scanning electron microscopy (FE-SEM). Preparation of a wax ester using the microreactor had much better production efficiency (35 minutes to reach 95% yield) than that using traditional reactors (over 4 hours to complete the reaction). Very excellent stability can be achieved by the microreactor, which could be used for 144 hours with the residual activity remaining at 83% of the initial activity.

Graphical abstract: Polydopamine-mediated preparation of an enzyme-immobilized microreactor for the rapid production of wax ester

Article information

Article type
Paper
Submitted
12 Jan 2017
Accepted
15 Feb 2017
First published
21 Feb 2017
This article is Open Access
Creative Commons BY license

RSC Adv., 2017,7, 12283-12291

Polydopamine-mediated preparation of an enzyme-immobilized microreactor for the rapid production of wax ester

Y. Bi, H. Zhou, H. Jia and P. Wei, RSC Adv., 2017, 7, 12283 DOI: 10.1039/C7RA00499K

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