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. 2017 Oct 13;8:927. doi: 10.1038/s41467-017-00970-1

Fig. 4.

Fig. 4

Time-dependent abundance of the as-identified Au(I)-SR complex/cluster species. The growth of [Au44(SR)26]2− can be divided into 3 stages: 0) kinetically dictated accumulation of Au25, I) Au25-mediated size growth, and II) thermodynamically controlled size-focusing