Kinetics and Thermodynamics of Multistep Nucleation and Self-Assembly in Nanoscale Materials, Volume 151 (eBook)

Gregoire Nicolis studied engineering at the Technical University of Athens and received his doctorate in physics from the Université libre de Bruxelles, where he is currently Professor Emeritus at the Center for Nonlinear Phenomena and Complex Systems. His research focuses on the theory of irreversible processes, nonlinear phenomena, and complex systems. Dominique Maes is a Professor at the Institute of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, Vrije Universiteit Brussel. Her research focuses on microgravity and the crystallization of proteins in space. Series Editors Stuart A. Rice received his master's and doctorate from Harvard University and was a junior fellow at Harvard for two years before joining the faculty of The University of Chicago in 1957, where he is currently the Frank P. Hixon Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus. Aaron R. Dinner received his bachelor's degree and doctorate from Harvard University, after which he conducted postdoctoral research at the University of Oxford and the University of California, Berkeley. He joined the faculty at The University of Chicago in 2003.

Kinetics and Thermodynamics of Fluctuation-Induced Transitions
in Multistable Systems 1

By Gregoire Nicolis and Catherine Nicolis

Dynamical Rare Event Simulation Techniques for Equilibrium and
Nonequilibrium Systems 27

By Titus S. Van Erp

Confocal Depolarized Dynamic Light Scattering 61

By M. Potenza, T. Sanvito, V. Degiorgio, and M. Giglio

The Two-Step Mechanism and The Solution-Crystal Spinodal for
Nucleation of Crystals in Solution 79

By Peter G. Vekilov

Experimental Studies of Two-Step Nucleation During
Two-Dimensional Crystallization of Colloidal Particles with
Short-Range Attraction 111

By John R. Savage, Liquan Pei, and Anthony D. Dinsmore

On the Role of Metastable Intermediate States in the Homogeneous
Nucleation of Solids from Solution 137

By James F. Lutsko

Effects of Protein Size on the
High-Concentration/Low-Concentration Phase Transition 173

By Patrick Grosfils

Geometric Constraints in the Self-Assembly of Mineral Dendrites
and Platelets 193

By John J. Kozak

What can Mesoscopic Level IN SITU Observations Teach us About
Kinetics and Thermodynamics of Protein Crystallization? 223

By Mike Sleutel, Dominique Maes, and Alexander Van
Driessche

The Ability of Silica to Induce Biomimetic Crystallization of
Calcium Carbonate 277

By Matthias Kellermeier, Emilio Melero-García, Werner Kunz,
and Juan Manuel García-Ruiz

Author Index 309

Subject Index 325