Ligand Mediated Nanocluster Formation with Classical and Autocatalytic Growth

14 August 2019, Version 2
This content is a preprint and has not undergone peer review at the time of posting.

Abstract

We describe a kinetic model of ligand-mediated nanocluster (diameter < 2 nm) formation. We investigate two growth pathways: classical single-monomer addition, and autocatalytic growth. We compare our results to some relevant experiments and we discuss and generally describe the optimal conditions for "bottom up" nanocluster synthesis.

Keywords

nanocluster formation
kinetics
ligands

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