Finding a route to synthesize nanostructures with a high-surface area is critical for developing high-performance energy materials. In article number 1700045, Lisha Fan, Ho Nyung Lee, and co-workers demonstrate that precise control of nonequilibrium growth conditions during pulsed laser deposition can produce single-crystalline anatase TiO2 nanobrush architectures with large surface areas termi...

Abstract. A theoretical model for the dynamics of a simple two-phase mixture is presented. A classical averaging approach combined with symmetry arguments is used to derive the mass, momentum, and energy equations for the mixture. The theory accounts for surficial energy at the interface and employs a nonequilibrium equation to relate the rate of work done by surface tension to the rates of bot...

Three models of surface growth processes in nonequilibrium steady state (NESS): Edwards–Wilkinson Model, Mullins–Herring Model and Kardar–Parisi–Zhang Model, are presented. Power laws, universality of non-equilibrium distributions, and scaling functions are discussed in details together with some experiment results.

We show that the two-dimensional voter model, usually considered to be only a marginal coarsening system, represents a broad class of models for which phase ordering takes place without surface tension. We argue that voter-like growth is generically observed at order-disorder nonequilibrium transitions solely driven by interfacial noise between dynamically symmetric absorbing states.

In this article I provide a brief theoretical perspective on our current understanding of the dynamic scaling phenomena in nonequilibrium epitaxial growth with the emphasis on the extensively studied ultrahigh vacuum thin film deposition growth, such as MBE growth, where the main growth front smoothening mechanism competing against the surface kinetic roughening induced by inherent shot noise f...

The growth of multicomponent structures in simulations and experiments often results in kinetically trapped, nonequilibrium objects. In such cases we have no general theoretical framework for predicting the outcome of the growth process. Here we use computer simulations to study the growth of two-component structures within a simple lattice model. We show that kinetic trapping happens for many ...

We introduce a simple continuous model for nonequilibrium surface growth. The dynamics of the system is defined by the Kardar-Parisi-Zhang equation with a Morse-like potential representing a short range interaction between the surface and the substrate. The mean field solution displays a nontrivial phase diagram with a first-order transition between a growing and a bound surface, associated wit...