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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Jul 1.
Published in final edited form as: Isr J Chem. 2017 Jan 30;57(7-8):738–749. doi: 10.1002/ijch.201600079

Figure 6.

Figure 6

Required concentration of impurity binding sites needed for heterogeneous nucleation to dominate homogeneous nucleation as the primary nucleation mechanism. There is an abrupt change in the slope when the impurity binding energy, fhet, becomes strong enough to overcome the entropic penalty of straightening the proteins.