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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Jan 10.
Published in final edited form as: Angew Chem Int Ed Engl. 2011 Jan 10;50(2):477–481. doi: 10.1002/anie.201005662

Figure 1. Schematic of the stable nanoscale NPSC fabrication.

Figure 1

a) Generation of nanosized oil-in-water droplets followed by interfacial assembly of arginine functionalized gold nanoparticles. b) Supramolecular interactions between nanoparticle and linoleic acid droplets via arginine-carboxylate interactions. c) Transforming strong particle-particle repulsion to a stabilizing electrostatic attraction by lateral non-covalent cross-linking of particles using transferrin protein.