Figure 2. (a) Schematic of a single dendrimer molecule; highly branched monomers leading to tree-like generational structure. (b) Schematic of carboxyl-terminated 4.5 generation PAMAM [ploy (amidoamine)] dendrimer. Black spherical dot is a representative nanoparticle location, which can be varied to be either inside, or on the carboxyl-terminated surface functional groups.
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(b) Figure 3. (a) Schematic of nucleation (of a cluster of molecules) and growth (of nuclei) processes leading to nanoparticle formation. (b) A representative form of a population balance equation (PBE) capturing the nanoparticle formation mechanism from our model.
Figure 4.Plate test with E. coli, showing 3 inhibition zones formed by Ag-GC samples.
