{
  "id": "1407.2505",
  "version": "v2",
  "published": "2014-07-09T14:44:53.000Z",
  "updated": "2014-10-21T17:37:06.000Z",
  "title": "The Statistical Mechanics of Dynamic Pathways to Self-assembly",
  "authors": [
    "Stephen Whitelam",
    "Robert L. Jack"
  ],
  "comment": "To appear in Annual Review of Physical Chemistry",
  "categories": [
    "cond-mat.stat-mech",
    "cond-mat.soft"
  ],
  "abstract": "We describe some of the important physical characteristics of the `pathways', i.e. dynamical processes, by which molecular, nanoscale and micron-scale self-assembly occurs. We highlight the fact that there exist features of self-assembly pathways that are common to a wide range of physical systems, even though those systems may be different in respect of their microscopic details. We summarize some existing theoretical descriptions of self-assembly pathways, and highlight areas -- notably, the description of self-assembly pathways that occur `far' from equilibrium -- that are likely to become increasingly important.",
  "revisions": [
    {
      "version": "v1",
      "updated": "2014-07-09T14:44:53.000Z",
      "comment": "Submitted to Annual Review of Physical Chemistry",
      "journal": null,
      "doi": null
    },
    {
      "version": "v2",
      "updated": "2014-10-21T17:37:06.000Z"
    }
  ],
  "analyses": {
    "keywords": [
      "statistical mechanics",
      "dynamic pathways",
      "self-assembly pathways",
      "micron-scale self-assembly occurs",
      "important physical characteristics"
    ],
    "publication": {
      "doi": "10.1146/annurev-physchem-040214-121215",
      "journal": "Annual Review of Physical Chemistry",
      "year": 2015,
      "month": "Apr",
      "volume": 66,
      "pages": 143
    },
    "note": {
      "typesetting": "TeX",
      "pages": 0,
      "language": "en",
      "license": "arXiv",
      "status": "editable",
      "adsabs": "2015ARPC...66..143W"
    }
  }
}