A simple approach for the efficient transfer of large gold nanoparticles from water to organic solvents using thiolated poly(ethylene glycol) as a phase transfer agent is presented. The addition of a common solvent during the phase transfer allowed for nanoparticles to be concentrated by a factor of 250 without aggregation.
A. M. Alkilany, A. I. B. Yaseen, J. Park, J. R. Eller and C. J. Murphy, RSC Adv., 2014, 4, 52676 DOI: 10.1039/C4RA11928B
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