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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Nov 1.
Published in final edited form as: Nat Protoc. 2016 Oct 20;11(11):2287–2299. doi: 10.1038/nprot.2016.137

Figure 2.

Figure 2

Experimental setup for the preparation of amphiphilic gold nanoparticles. (a) Experimental setup used to degas the solution of Au@PEG/DTBE in DMF using N2. (b) Equipment used to synthesize hydrophobic polymer brushes on the surface of Au@PEG/DTBE or AuNR@PEG/MUD using the surface-initiated polymerization method. The glass reaction bottle must be sealed and placed in a water or oil bath to control the reaction temperature. (c) Aggregation of the gold nanoparticles and color change from red to blue.