The interplay between monomer formation, nucleation and growth during colloidal nanoparticle synthesis

Wet chemical methods have demonstrated their unparalleled success to control the size and size distribution of colloidal nanoparticles. In a wet chemical nanoparticle synthesis, precursor reaction, nucleation and growth will occur, not subsequently but often concurrently. The three processes can thus strongly affect each other during the nucleation. Here mathematical models were used to simulate the rate of the concurrently occurring precursor...