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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Jul 20.
Published in final edited form as: Acc Chem Res. 2016 Oct 12;49(11):2625–2631. doi: 10.1021/acs.accounts.6b00334

Table 1. Averaged Values of the Different Nanoparticle “Batches” For the Charge Transfer Coefficient (α) Determined from Simulation and the Standard Heterogeneous Electron Transfer Rate Constant (k°)a.

α (simulation) k° (cm/s)
5 nm Au 0.540 ± 0.020 8.75 ± 3.7 (10−5)
12 nm Au 0.477 ± 0.015 9.64 ± 5.5 (10−6)
50 nm Au 0.501 ± 0.015 7.08 ± 4.2 (10−6)
4 nm Pt 0.742 ± 0.006 8.71 ± 2.0 (10−2)
10 nm Ptb 0.775 ± 0.003 7.66 ± 0.88 (10−2)
30 nm Pt 0.758 ± 0.007 4.23 ± 0.62 (10−2)
a

Reproduced with permission ref 46. Copyright 2016 American Chemical Society.

b

Cubic nanoparticles capped with polyacrylate.