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Kinetics and Thermodynamics of Multistep Nucleation and Self-Assembly in Nanoscale Materials: Advances in Chemical Physics Volume 151; CONTRIBUTORS; PREFACE; PREFACE TO THE SERIES; CONTENTS; KINETICS AND THERMODYNAMICS OF FLUCTUATION-INDUCED TRANSITIONS IN MULTISTABLE SYSTEMS; I. INTRODUCTION; II. FORMULATION; A. Stationary Distribution; B. Exit from an Attraction Basin; III. CLOSED SYSTEMS AND DETAILED BALANCE; IV. GENERIC POTENTIALS AND THEIR UNFOLDINGS; A. Transitions from 1 to 3 Occur Necessarily Through State 2; B. Transitions from 1 to 3 Need Not Occur Through State 2 |
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V. KINETICS OF TRANSITIONS BETWEEN STATES: MAPPING INTO A DISCRETE MARKOV PROCESSA. Three Simultaneously Stable States (Seven-Steady-State Region); B. Two Simultaneously Stable States (Five-Steady-State Region); C. Two Simultaneously Stable States (Three-Steady-State Region); VI. IRREVERSIBLE THERMODYNAMICS OF FLUCTUATION-INDUCED TRANSITIONS; VII. CONCLUSIONS; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; REFERENCES; DYNAMICAL RARE EVENT SIMULATION TECHNIQUES FOR EQUILIBRIUM AND NONEQUILIBRIUM SYSTEMS; I. INTRODUCTION; II. REACTIVE FLUX METHOD; III. TRANSITION PATH SAMPLING; IV. TRANSITION INTERFACE SAMPLING |
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V. partial path sampling; vi. forward flux sampling; vii. replica exchange tis; viii. numerical example; ix. conclusions; acknowledgments; references; confocal depolarized dynamic light scattering; i. introduction; ii. fundamentals of depolarized scattering: the state of the art; iii. the traditional approach; iv. the novel approach; v. the optical layout; vi. data reduction scheme; vii. results; viii. conclusions; acknowledgment; references; the two-step mechanism and the solution-crystal spinodal for nucleation of crystals in solution; i. introduction; ii. the classical nucleation theory |
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A. The Crystallization Driving Force; B. The Thermodynamic Theory of J.W. Gibbs; C. The Rate of Crystal Nucleation; III. THE TWO-STEP MECHANISM AND THE SOLUTION-CRYSTAL SPINODAL; A. Experimental Data on the Rate of Nucleation of Crystals; B. The Nucleus Size and Solution-to-Crystal Spinodal; C. The Classical Theory Overestimates the Crystal Nucleation Rate by 10 Orders of Magnitude; D. The Two-Step Mechanism of Nucleation of Crystal in Solution; E. Dense Liquid Clusters; F. The Rate Law for the Two-Step Mechanism of Crystal Nucleation |
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G. The Rate-determining Step in the Two-Step Nucleation Mechanism; H. The Role of Heterogeneous Nucleation Substrates; I. The Broad Applicability of the Two-Step Nucleation Mechanism; IV. SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; REFERENCES; EXPERIMENTAL STUDIES OF TWO-STEP NUCLEATION DURING TWO-DIMENSIONAL CRYSTALLIZATION OF COLLOIDAL PARTICLES WITH SHORT-RANGE ATTRACTION; I. INTRODUCTION; II. EXPERIMENTAL METHODS: SAMPLE PREPARATION AND IMAGING; III. ANALYSIS OF IMAGES: PARTICLE COORDINATES, AREA FRACTION, CLUSTER SIZES, AND CRYSTALLINE ORDER; IV. RESULTS |
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Science.
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Science
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sciences (philosophy)
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science (modern discipline)
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SCIENCE -- Chemistry -- Physical & Theoretical.
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Science
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Electronic book
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Maes, Dominique
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9781118309476 |
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1118309472 |
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9781118309483 |
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1118309480 |
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