UV Treatment of the Stabilizing Shell for Improving the Photostability of Silver Nanoparticles

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(a, b) TEM image and relative size distribution histogram of Ag-NCs (scale bar = 100 nm; inset is 20 × 20 nm zoom of (a)); (c, d) AFM image (scale bar = 500 nm) of Ag-NCs and relative height distribution histograms.

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