This review describes some important physical characteristics of the pathways (ie,
dynamical processes) by which molecular, nanoscale, and micrometer-scale self-assembly …

Recent advances in classical density functional theory are combined with stochastic process
theory and rare event techniques to formulate a theoretical description of nucleation …

The formation of condensed (compacted) protein phases is associated with a wide range of
human disorders, such as eye cataracts, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, sickle cell anaemia …

Predicting the conditions in which a compound adopts a metastable structure when it
crystallizes out of solution is an unsolved and fundamental problem in materials synthesis …

Classical nucleation theory (CNT), which was established about 90 years ago, has been
very successful in many research fields, and continues to be the most commonly used theory …

Polymorphism occurs widely in pharmaceutical solids, and must be thoroughly studied
during product development. Twenty-four years after ritonavir (RTV) Form II materialized, we …

It is widely accepted that many phase transitions do not follow nucleation pathways as
envisaged by the classical nucleation theory. Many substances can traverse intermediate …

In 1897, following a number of crystallization studies, Ostwald suggested that if a system has
a number of metastable states open to it then it proceeds sequentially by means of the …

Crystals may not always nucleate directly in the supersaturated old phase, but rather in a
precursory metastable phase. This so-called two-step (2S) nucleation of crystals has …

A general theory of nucleation for colloids and macromolecules in solution is formulated
within the context of fluctuating hydrodynamics. A formalism for the determination of …