Growth Kinetics of Tumours

The kinetics of growth.

Kinetics of prion growth.

We study the kinetics of prion fibril growth, described by the nucleated polymerization model analytically and by means of numerical experiments. The elementary processes of prion fibril formation lead us to a set of differential equations for the number of fibrils, their total mass, and the number of prion monomers. In difference to previous studies we analyze this set by explicitly taking int...

Leuconostoc mesenteroides Growth Kinetics

Bacterial profile modification (BPM) is being developed as an oil recovery technique that uses bacteria to selectively plug oil depleted zones within a reservoir to divert displacing fluids (typically water) into oilrich zones. Leuconostoc mesenteroides, which produces dextran when supplied with sucrose, is a bacterium that is technically feasible for use in profile modification. However, the t...

Growth Kinetics of Gold Nanoparticles

We have measured the growth kinetics of gold nanoparticles in real time. Gold nanoparticles were formed from the reduction of gold (III) in aqueous solution and monitored with a stopped-flow reactor equipped with a diode array. The overall reduction of gold (III) occurred in less than 20 [ms]. The growth kinetics was determined from measurements of the plasmon resonance time-dependent wavelengt...

Kinetics of Submonolayer Epitaxial Growth

Molecular beam epitaxy is an important method for growing thinlms and nanostructures. One of the scienti c challenges is to understand the fundamental processes that control the evolution of thin lm structure and morphology. The results of kinetic Monte Carlo simulations carried out to study the dependence of the submonolayer scaled island-size distribution on the critical island-size are prese...