@article{oai:shizuoka.repo.nii.ac.jp:00004857,
 author = {Takahashi, Masaki and Ohno, Shuhei and Fujita, Norifumi and Sengoku, Tetsuya and Yoda, Hidemi},
 issue = {2},
 journal = {Journal of Colloid and Interface Science},
 month = {Apr},
 note = {application/pdf, Detailed exploratory and mechanistic investigations on spontaneous formation of dye-functionalized gold nanoparticles (GNPs) using dye-based reverse micellar systems are described in this publication. The accumulated results from spectroscopic and microscopic investigations demonstrated that water molecules confined within nanoscopic enclosure of the self-assembled reverse micelles played critical role in the redox processes of aurate ions to produce GNPs, which are assumed to have approximately constant size distributions. The resulting dye-functionalized GNPs were found to offer their absorption and fluorescence emission tunability by changing the medium polarity as well as to exhibit excellent film-forming properties to give optically homogeneous polystyrene thin films. These key findings in addition to broad applicability of the self-assembling process with a variety of dye analogues have led to a conclusion that the protocol presented here serves as a versatile synthetic method to provide a potential convenience for future development of new organic-inorganic hybrid nanomaterials.},
 pages = {536--542},
 title = {Spontaneous formation of dye-functionalized gold nanoparticles using reverse micellar systems},
 volume = {356},
 year = {2011}
}