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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Feb 3.
Published in final edited form as: Langmuir. 2009 Feb 3;25(3):1352–1359. doi: 10.1021/la8032918

Figure 5.

Figure 5

The mean force of constraint on the NP radius (denoted PMF in the text) is plotted against the NP radius for 20 tethered C12E8 chains in water. Notice that all three methods predict roughly the same optimal area per ligand, corresponding to a PMF of zero.