Kinetics and thermodynamics of multistep nucleation and self-assembly in nanoscale materials
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Hoboken, N. J.
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Wiley
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c2012
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xii, 339 p.: ill.; 24 cm
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Advances in chemical physics; v.151
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes
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edited by Gregoire Nicolis and Dominique Maes
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Kinetics and thermodynamics of fluctuation-induced transitions in multistable systems / Gregoire Nicolis, Catherine 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, 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, 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 observations teach us about kinetics and thermodynamics of protein crystallization? / Mike Sleutel, Dominique Maes, Alexander Van Driessche -- The ability of silica to induce biomimetic crystallization of calcium carbonate / Matthias Kellermeier, Emilio Melero-Garcia, Werner Kunz, Juan Manuel Garcia-Ruiz