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All wrapped up: Carbon-encapsulated metal nanoparticles, carbon microspheres decorated with metal nanoparticles, and particles with layered structures are all accessible by means of a method based on hydrothermal treatment of glucose, which produces monodisperse colloidal carbon microspheres with reactive surfaces. The picture shows silver-cored carbon spheres obtained by using silver nanoparticles as seeds.
Sun et al. (2004) studied this question.