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The Advances In Chemical Physics Series-the Cutting Edge Of Research In Chemical Physics The Advances In Chemical Physics Series Provides The Chemical Physics And Physical Chemistry Fields With A Forum For Critical, Authoritative Evaluations Of Advances In Every Area Of The Discipline. Filled With Cutting-edge Research Reported In A Cohesive Manner Not Found Elsewhere In The Literature, Each Volume Of The Advances In Chemical Physics Series Presents Contributions From Internationally Renowned Chemists And Serves As The Perfect Supplement To Any Advanced Graduate Class De 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 Scatterin