Figure 3.

(a) Comparison of the monomer detachment rate (blue) to the diffusion limited arrival of monomers to the growing nucleus. (b) Probability that a nascent nucleus reaches the stable size as a function of the size of the β core. When the core becomes large enough that newly bound molecules have a residence time comparable to the diffusion time the success probability approaches unity. Both plots assume disordered monomers (s = 0).