“…However, sometimes additional stabilizing agents are required for metal nanoparticles stabilization in IL, which provide additional flexibility for the phase transfer of metal nanoparticles to different solvent media. Stabilizing agents such as citrate (Wei et al, 2004), oleic acid (Wang & Yang, 2006), dendrimers (Ou et al, 2008), phenanthroline (Huang et al, 2003), bipyridine (Leger et al, 2008), poly(vinylpyrrolidone) (Yang et al, 2008), and IL-like polymers have been used during metal nanoparticles synthesis in ILs. Despite these studies, it is still not encouragingly clear how ILs and additional stabilizing agents interact with metal nanoparticles surface.…”