Advances in Chemical Physics, Volume 151, Kinetics and Thermodynamics of Multistep Nucleation and Self-Assembly in Nanoscale Materials

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