Kinetics and Thermodynamics of Multistep Nucleation and Self-Assembly in Nanoscale Materials, Volume 151 / Advances in Chemical Physics Bd.151 (PDF)

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This volume explores:

* Kinetics and thermodynamics of fluctuation-induced transitions
in multistable systems (G. Nicolis and C. Nicolis)

* Dynamical rare event simulation techniques for equilibrium and
nonequilibrium systems (Titus S. van Erp)

* Confocal depolarized dynamic light scattering (M. Potenza, T.
Sanvito, V. Degiorgio, and M. Giglio)

* The two-step mechanism and the solution-crystal spinodal for
nucleation of crystals in solution (Peter G. Vekilov)

* Experimental studies of two-step nucleation during
two-dimensional crystallization of colloidal particles with
short-range attraction (John R. Savage, Liquan Pei, and Anthony D.
Dinsmore)

* On the role of metastable intermediate states in the homogeneous
nucleation of solids from solution (James F. Lutsko)

* Effects of protein size on the
high-concentration/low-concentration phase transition (Patrick
Grosfils)

* Geometric constraints in the self-assembly of mineral dendrites
and platelets (John J. Kozak)

* What can mesoscopic level in situ observations teach us about
kinetics and thermodynamics of protein crystallization? (Mike
Sleutel, Dominique Maes, and Alexander Van Driessche)

* The ability of silica to induce biomimetic crystallization of
calcium carbonate (Matthias Kellermeier, Emilio Melero-GarcÍa,
Werner Kunz, and Juan Manuel GarcÍa-Ruiz)