. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 May 21.

Published in final edited form as: Langmuir. 2013 Mar 15;29(12):3903–3911. doi: 10.1021/la400387h

Table 1.

Particle size distributions determined by dynamic light scattering along with calculated and experimental surface plasmon resonance (SPR) values.

Seed Concentration/pM	Pop 1 Diam./nm	^bWeight/%	Pop 2 Diam./nm	^b Weight/%	SPR (calc)/nm		SPR^c nm
Seed Concentration/pM	Pop 1 Diam./nm	^bWeight/%	Pop 2 Diam./nm	^b Weight/%	Pop 1	Pop 2	SPR^c nm
0	1370 ± 290	87	117 ± 37	13
5	183 ± 25	100			550,670		558(556)	700
10	125 ± 16	56	29 ± 4	44	590	522	578(583)
20	103 ± 14	38	16 ± 2	62	569	521	562(558)
50	86 ± 12	21	10 ± 1	79	553	521	545(542)

Values Mean ± SD.

Integrated DLS volume weighted intensities.

The wavelengths of the composite SPR spectral maxima, experimental(calculated) in nm.