After preparing the spherical reverse micelles, silver precursors
were loaded in micellar solution with six different Ag:copolymer
mol ratios (2:1, 3:1, 5:1, 10:1, 20:1 and 30:1) as seen Scheme 1.
Silver ions attached the carboxylic groups in the micelle cores were reduced to silver nanoparticles by N2H4 according to the following
equation: