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Nanoparticle research has received considerable attention due to many potential innovative applications such as biomedicine, 1, 2 catalysis, 3, 4 fuel cell, 5 magnetic data storage, 6 agriculture, 7 and solar cells. 8 They have unique and novel magnetic, optical, electronic, and catalytic properties, which are related to their size and are different from bulk materials. For many years, the process of the nucleation and growth of nanoparticles have been described through the LaMer burst nucleation 9, 10 and following Ostwald ripening 11 to describe the change in the particles size. This process was originally modeled by Reiss 12 with an accepted model being developed by Lifshitz− Slyozov− Wagner, LSW theory. 13, 14 This was considered to be the only theory of nucleation until Watzky and Finke 15 formulated an approach of constant slow nucleation followed by autocatalytic growth. The elucidation of these …