Kinetics of Crystallization and Orientational Ordering in Dipolar Particle Systems

The kinetic mechanisms underlying the bottom-up assembly of colloidal particles have been widely investigated in efforts to control crystallization pathways and to direct growth into targeted superstructures for applications, including photonic crystals. Current work builds on recent progress in the development of kinetic theories for crystal growth of bcc crystals in systems with short-range interparticle interactions, accounting for a greater …