title: pH-Responsive reversible self-assembly of gold nanoparticles into nanovesicles.
abstract: A novel system was reported to realize the reversible self-assembly and disassembly of Au nanovesicles (NVs) driven by pH stimuli with commercially available organic molecules, 4-mercaptobenzonic acid (4-MBA) and oleylamine (OL). Through adjusting deprotonation and protonation of 4-MBA, Au NVs demonstrated a good reversible self-assembly behavior. As a proof-of-concept, Rhodamine B was loaded into the vesicles to demonstrate the reversible pH-responsive controlled release.
authors.affiliation: Key Laboratory of Photochemical Conversion and Optoelectronic Materials, Technical Institute of Physics and Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Science, Beijing, 100190, P. R. China. tierui@mail.ipc.ac.cn and University of Chinese Academy of Science, Beijing, 100049, P. R. China.
authors.forename: Chunfang
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Fan
authors.affiliation: Key Laboratory of Photochemical Conversion and Optoelectronic Materials, Technical Institute of Physics and Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Science, Beijing, 100190, P. R. China. tierui@mail.ipc.ac.cn.
authors.forename: Tong
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Bian
authors.affiliation: Key Laboratory of Photochemical Conversion and Optoelectronic Materials, Technical Institute of Physics and Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Science, Beijing, 100190, P. R. China. tierui@mail.ipc.ac.cn.
authors.forename: Lu
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Shang
authors.affiliation: Key Laboratory of Photochemical Conversion and Optoelectronic Materials, Technical Institute of Physics and Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Science, Beijing, 100190, P. R. China. tierui@mail.ipc.ac.cn and University of Chinese Academy of Science, Beijing, 100049, P. R. China.
authors.forename: Run
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Shi
authors.affiliation: Key Laboratory of Photochemical Conversion and Optoelectronic Materials, Technical Institute of Physics and Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Science, Beijing, 100190, P. R. China. tierui@mail.ipc.ac.cn.
authors.forename: Li-Zhu
authors.initials: LZ
authors.lastname: Wu
authors.affiliation: Key Laboratory of Photochemical Conversion and Optoelectronic Materials, Technical Institute of Physics and Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Science, Beijing, 100190, P. R. China. tierui@mail.ipc.ac.cn.
authors.forename: Chen-Ho
authors.initials: CH
authors.lastname: Tung
authors.affiliation: Key Laboratory of Photochemical Conversion and Optoelectronic Materials, Technical Institute of Physics and Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Science, Beijing, 100190, P. R. China. tierui@mail.ipc.ac.cn.
authors.forename: Tierui
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Zhang