Kinetics and thermodynamics of multistep nucleation and self-assembly in nanoscale materials
By: edited by Gregoire Nicolis and Dominique Maes
Series: Advances in chemical physics -- v.151; Advances in chemical physics -- v.151.
Publisher: Wiley
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Hoboken, N. J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 339
ISBN-13: 9781118167830
Subjects: Nanostructured materials; Congresses; Self-assembly (Chemistry)
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Kinetics and thermodynamics of fluctuation-induced transitions in multistable systems / Gregoire Nicolis, Catherine Nicolis; title: Dynamical rare event simulation techniques for equilibrium and nonequilibrium systems / Titus S. Van Erp; title: Confocal depolarized dynamic light scattering / M. Potenza, T. Sanvito, V. Degiorgio, M. Giglio; title: The two-step mechanism and the solution-crystal spinodal for nucleation of crystals in solution / Peter G. Vekilov; title: Experimental studies of two-step nucleation during two-dimensional crystallization of colloidal particles with short-range attraction / John R. Savage, Liquan Pei, Anthony D. Dinsmore; title: On the role of metastable intermediate states in the homogeneous nucleation of solids from solution / James F. Lutsko; title: Effects of protein size on the high-concentration/low-concentration phase transition / Patrick Grosfils; title: Geometric constraints in the self-assembly of mineral dendrites and platelets / John J. Kozak; title: What can mesoscopic level observations teach us about kinetics and thermodynamics of protein crystallization? / Mike Sleutel, Dominique Maes, Alexander Van Driessche; title: The ability of silica to induce biomimetic crystallization of calcium carbonate / Matthias Kellermeier, Emilio Melero-García, Werner Kunz, Juan Manuel García-Ruiz.