Kinetics and thermodynamics of multistep nucleation and self-assembly in nanoscale materials [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Gregoire Nicolis and Dominique Maes

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910141266403321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Hoboken, N.J., : John Wiley & Sons, 2012
• ISBN: 1-280-58949-3; 9786613619327; 1-118-30948-0; 1-118-30951-0; 1-118-30947-2
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (353 p.)
• Collana: Advances in chemical physics ; ; v. 151
• Altri autori (Persone): NicolisGregoire; MaesDominique
• Disciplina: 541
• Soggetti: Nucleation; Dynamics; Thermodynamics
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
• Nota di contenuto: 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; 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; V. PARTIAL PATH SAMPLINGVI. 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; A. The Crystallization Driving ForceB. 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; G. The Rate-determining Step in the Two-Step Nucleation MechanismH. 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; A. Single-Step and Two-Step Nucleation of Crystallites
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