Kinetic Process of Blackberry Formation

Time-resolved DLS and SLS studies can be used to study the mechanism 

FIGURE 13. SLS (a) and DLS (b) measurements to monitor the slow blackberry formation in dilute aqueous solutions of Mo72Fe3o. All experiments were performed at 25°C, except the filled triangles in panel a, which were carried out at 45°C. (Reprinted with permission from ref 33. Copyright [2008] American Chemical Society.) 

FIGURE 14. The mechanism of blackberry self-assembly process. The oligomer formation is the rate-limiting step (Reprinted with permission from ref. 29.) 

FIGURE 15. Determination of the blackberry formation rate at the initial stage at different temperatures by monitoring the ehange of the total scattered intensity from SLS experiments. The curves foUow the patterns for first-order reactions. The temperature dependence of the reaction rate provides the information regarding the activation energy of the blackberry formation (Reprinted with permission from ref. 34.) 

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