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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2021 Jun 16.
Published in final edited form as: J Am Chem Soc. 2017 Jul 12;139(29):9876–9884. doi: 10.1021/jacs.7b03163

Figure 1.

Figure 1.

Nucleation and growth of monometallic nanoparticles in polymer nanoreactors. (A) A scheme of the nucleation and growth process. (B) Ex-situ ADF-STEM images of the aggregation and growth of Au nanoparticles in polymer features annealed at 100 °C. Dashed circles indicate the edge of polymer features. Scale bar: 300 nm. (C-D) The number (C) and average diameter (D) of the nanoparticles formed in polymer features annealed at 100 °C. The assignment of Stage I and II in (C) and (D) applies to the polymer features with diameters of 1500 nm.