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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 May 6.
Published in final edited form as: J Aerosol Sci. 2012 Apr;46:7–19. doi: 10.1016/j.jaerosci.2011.11.005

Figure 7.

Figure 7

The average primary particle diameter, dva (a), and number, nva (b), of silver nanoparticle agglomerates by Kim et al. (2009) is estimated by eq. 2 & 8 for different sintering temperatures. The broken line represents the primary particle diameter dTEM obtained by TEM and converted to surface-average mean diameter. The dva by eq. 8 is within the error bars (grey area) of dTEM and is independent of mobility diameter. Higher furnace temperatures (T = 200 – 600 °C) lead to faster sintering, larger dva and less nva.