Table 4.

PMF wells (depths and separations) and aggregation affinities.

Systems: AuNP pairs	Well depth	Well location	pkD
System I	8 kBT	~2.5 nm	1.7
MUS−MUS−	14 kBT	~5.7 nm
System II	23 kBT	~3.3 nm	11
MPS−-MPS−	7 kBT	~4.9 nm
System III	5 kBT	~3.4 nm	1.3
MPM+-MPM+	8 kBT	~4.6 nm
System IV	19 kBT	~3.2 nm	8.5
pMBA−-pMBA−
System V	9 kBT	~3.3 nm	4.5
pMBM+-pMBM+
Reference31	21 kBT	~3.7 nm	10.5
GS−-GS−	6 kBT	~5.1 nm