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Proposed mechanism of surface coating of AuNPs by chitosan. In the first step, LRE reduce tetrachloroauric acid into AuNPs and in the second step, AuNPs are coated with chitosan via electrostatic interactions between positively charged amino groups of chitosan and negatively charged AuNPs.
