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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Jun 7.
Published in final edited form as: Phys Chem Chem Phys. 2011 Mar 9;13(21):10028–10035. doi: 10.1039/c0cp02434a

Table 1.

Hydrodynamic diameter of the encapsulated GNRs in different media

Particle type/DLS diameter in buffers/nm H2O 100 mM NaCl PBS OptiMEM RPMI
GNR@CTAB 42.5 ± 0.6 497.9 ± 5.3 457.5 ± 22.5 619.9 ± 32.5 80.9 ± 2.0
GNR@PSS 51.5 ± 0.8 190.5 ± 23.9 348.3 ± 27.9 82.1 ± 1.9 92.2 ± 6.9
GNR@SH–PEG 77.0 ± 4.8 75.2 ± 0.2 78.5 ± 3.8 78.7 ± 1.1 75.7 ± 0.8
GNR@SiO2 75.6 ± 1.3 1917.3 ± 123.7 1221 ± 110.6 1720.3 ± 183.3 112.7 ± 1.9
GNR@SiO2@PE-PEG 97.4 ± 2.2 103.6 ± 0.6 91.8 ± 3.1 104.3 ± 2.1 113.0 ± 1.0