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Chapter - 9 CORE-SHELL NANOPARTICLES Fig. 9.1: Transmission electron micrographs of silica coated gold nanoparticles. The shell thicknesses are (a) 10 nm, (b) 23 nm, (c) 58 nm, and (d) 83 nm. Reprinted with permission from Liz-Marzan, et al. (L. M. Liz-Marzan, M. Giersig, P. Mulvaney, Langmuir, 1996, 12, 4329.). Copyright (1996) American Chemical Society. Fig. 9.2: TEM image of ZrO2 coated Ag nanoparticles. Reprinted with permission from Tom, et al. (R. T. Tom, A. S. Nair, N. Singh, M. Aslam, C. L. Nagendra, R. Philip, K. Vijay amohanan, T. Pradeep, Langmuir, 2003, 19, 3439). Copyright (2003) American Chemical Society. Fig. 9.3: TEM image of Pt-maghemite core-shell nanoparticles having different shell thickness made with different shell-forming precursors. The shell thicknesses are 3.5 nm and 5.4 nm, respectively (left to right). Reprinted with permission from Teng, et al. ( X. Teng, D. Black, N. J. Watkins, Y. Gao, H. Yang, Nano Lett., 2003, 3, 261). Copyright (2003) American Chemical Society. Fig. 9.4: HRTEM images of Ag@ZrO2 core-shell nanoparticles functionalized with a stearate monolayer. From Nair et. al.( A. S. Nair, T. Pradeep, I. MacLaren, J. Mater. Chem., 2004, 14, 857.). Reproduced with permission from the Royal Society of Chemistry. Fig. 9.5: TEM images of Gold-silica inverse opals. The core dimension is ~15 nm and the silica shells are around 8, 18 and 28 nm, respectively. Scale bars are 50 nm in all cases. Reprinted from ( D. Wang, V. Salgueirino-Maceira, L. M. Liz-Marzan and F. Caruso, Adv. Mater., 2002, 14, 908.). Copyright (2002) Wiley-VCH. Fig. 9.6: TEM images of Au nanoparticles (left) coated with Pt (right) in the ratio 1:2. Reprinted with permission from Henglein. ( A. Henglein, J. Phys. Chem. B, 2000, 104, 2201.). Copyright (2000) American Chemical Society. Fi