Issue 7, 2016

pH-Responsive reversible self-assembly of gold nanoparticles into nanovesicles

Abstract

A novel system was reported to realize the reversible self-assembly and disassembly of Au nanovesicles (NVs) driven by pH stimuli with commercially available organic molecules, 4-mercaptobenzonic acid (4-MBA) and oleylamine (OL). Through adjusting deprotonation and protonation of 4-MBA, Au NVs demonstrated a good reversible self-assembly behavior. As a proof-of-concept, Rhodamine B was loaded into the vesicles to demonstrate the reversible pH-responsive controlled release.

Graphical abstract: pH-Responsive reversible self-assembly of gold nanoparticles into nanovesicles

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Article information

Article type
Communication
Submitted
04 Jan 2016
Accepted
22 Jan 2016
First published
25 Jan 2016

Nanoscale, 2016,8, 3923-3925

pH-Responsive reversible self-assembly of gold nanoparticles into nanovesicles

C. Fan, T. Bian, L. Shang, R. Shi, L. Wu, C. Tung and T. Zhang, Nanoscale, 2016, 8, 3923 DOI: 10.1039/C6NR00044D

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