Gregoire Nicolis & Dominique Maes 
Kinetics and Thermodynamics of Multistep Nucleation and Self-Assembly in Nanoscale Materials, Volume 151 [PDF ebook] 

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

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.