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Typical refunctionalitazation effects to create water dispersible nanoparticles (illustrated in Scheme 1). Initially, the oleic acid stabilized nanoparticles are dispersed in the hexanes phase of a hexane/water mixture (left). After functionalization with water-amenable ligands, the nanoparticles transfer into the aqueous phase and are no longer stabilized by hexanes (right).
