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. 2012 Feb 10;14(3):737. doi: 10.1007/s11051-012-0737-4

Fig. 3.

Fig. 3

Illustration of the multistage agglomerate structure obtained by ex-situ analysis. a TEM image of a network of silica NPs. b SEM image of a simple agglomerate or sub-agglomerate built up from these networks. c SEM image of a complex agglomerate consisting of several sub-agglomerates (reprinted from Wang et al. (2002) with permission from Elsevier)