Figure 3.

Left: (Asterisks) Second moment of oligomer size distribution vs. time from a stochastic simulation with N monomers, $M_2^s=\frac{1}{2}{\sum }_j{j}^2{n}_j$, where n_j is the number of j-mers. N = 20000 and f = 3. Right: (Asterisks) Largest oligomer size vs. time from the same stochastic simulation. (Dashed Lines) Time of gel formation from the deterministic model for initial monomer concentration c₁(0) = 1 with f = 3.