First passage times in homogeneous nucleation and self-assembly

Journal of Chemical Physics

Volumn 137, Issue 24, 2012, Pages

  Yvinec, Romain ^a   Dorsogna, Maria R ^b   Chou, Tom ^c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

^b CSUN   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL APPROACH; ASSEMBLY TIME; BIOLOGICAL SETTINGS; CLUSTER FORMATIONS; DETACHMENT RATE; FINITE VOLUME; FIRST PASSAGE TIME; FIXED NUMBERS; HOMOGENEOUS NUCLEATION; IDENTICAL PARTICLES; KOLMOGOROV EQUATIONS; MOLECULAR AGGREGATION; STOCHASTIC SELF ASSEMBLIES;

NUCLEATION; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; SELF ASSEMBLY;

CHEMICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 84872050094     PISSN: 00219606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.4772598     Document Type: Article

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