“…Harris (3) assumed that the nucleation rate was proportional to the experimentally mea-(as in acid), the batch Stöber process analyzed by a wide variety of techniques ( 29 Si-NMR, conductivity, Raman spec-sured rate of TEOS consumption, and he avoided the use of solvation repulsion in the aggregation kernel. Although the troscopy, pH monitoring, gas chromatography, 1 H-NMR, 13 C-NMR, and molybdate analysis), shows the unhydrolyzed treatments of Bogush and Zukoski (2) and of Harris (3) differ somewhat on these points, both treatments success-TEOS as the predominant species in solution (1,3,(8)(9)(10)(11)(12). Only the singly hydrolyzed monomer (Si (OEt) 3 (OH)) is fully predicted the average size and size distribution over the limited composition range of Stöber synthesis.…”