1.1 Background In his historic review titled “Polymerization” in Chemical Reviews of 1931,
Wallace H. Carothers described his brilliant ideas about the rapidly develo** field of …

The theory of critical phenomena in systems at equilibrium is reviewed at an introductory
level with special emphasis on the values of the critical point exponents α, β, γ,..., and their …

Broadbent and Hammersley [2], introduced the following percolation problem. Let 3? be the
graph in the plane whose vertices are the integral vectors (ie, elements of Z2) and whose …

The droplet or cluster theory of condensation is reviewed critically and extended. It is shown
to imply that the condensation point is marked by a singularity of the thermodynamic …

The relationship between liquids and gases engaged the attention of a number of
distinguished scientists in the mid 19th Century. In a definitive paper published in 1869 …

This paper is a general review of the current state of the theory of percolation processes and
related topics. Besides presenting definitions and listing some of the principal available …

The Padé approximant procedure is used to study the low‐temperature series for the Ising
problem. The critical behavior of the spontaneous magnetization of an Ising ferromagnet and …

Abstract Series estimates of the critical percolation probabilities for the" bond problem" and
the" site problem" are presented for two-and three-dimensional lattices. Good agreement …

A plane‐square lattice gas of hard``squares''which exclude the occupation of nearest‐
neighbor sites is studied by deriving 13 terms of the activity and the virial series and nine …

The effects of excluded volume on the existence and nature of a phase transition in an
infinitely long double‐stranded helical polymer are discussed in relation to the recent …