“…Accordingly, methods with no use of amines are required as methods for producing the silica-coated particles. From this view point, our previous works proposed methods using sodium hydroxide (NaOH) not amine for preparing various silica-coated particles (Ayame et al, 2011;Kobayashi et al, 2010cKobayashi et al, , 2011Kobayashi et al, , 2012aKobayashi et al, , 2012bKobayashi et al, , 2012cKobayashi et al, , 2013aKobayashi et al, , 2013bMorimoto et al, 2011;Sakurai et al, 2012). Our group has targeted AgI nanoparticles for silica-coating, since their colloid solution is easily prepared in aqueous solution.…”