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Dillip Kumar Sahu1, Tapas Pal1, Kalyanasis Sahu1
1Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, Guwahati, Assam, India.
Abstract:
A new phase transfer strategy to convert aqueous phase protein-protected nanomaterials into fluorescent nanoclusters in the reverse micellar environment is introduced using bovine serum albumin (BSA)-protected silver nanoclusters (AgNCs) and nanoparticles (AgNPs) as an example. The basic pH employed in the fabrication of protein-protected nanoclusters induces the the protein capping to be negatively charged and facilitates the transfer process of the nanomaterials from aqueous phase to a cationic gemini surfactant (16-2-16)/hexane/hexanol/water reverse micelle (RM) phase. The original fluorescence characteristics of the seed nanocluster is retained after the transfer process. Strikingly, when both the nanomaterials (AgNCs and AgNPs) coexist in the aqueous feed solution, they are exclusively converted into uniform nanoclusters in the RM extract with enhanced fluorescence intensity.
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