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Although pathway-specific kinetic theories are fundamentally important todescribe and understand reversible polymerisation kinetics, they come inprinciple at a cost of having a large number of system-specific parameters.Here, we construct a dynamical Landau theory to describe the kinetics ofactivated linear supramolecular self-assembly, which drastically reduces thenumber of parameters and still describes most of the interesting and genericbehavior of the system in hand. This phenomenological approach hinges on thefact that if nucleated, the polymerisation transition resembles a phasetransition. We are able to describe hysteresis, overshooting, undershooting andthe existence of a lag time before polymerisation takes off, and pinpoint theconditions required for observing these types of phenomenon in the assembly anddisassembly kinetics. We argue that the phenomenological kinetic parameter inour theory is a pathway controller, i.e., it controls the relative weights ofthe molecular pathways through which self-assembly takes place.

On the Kinetics of Body versus End Evaporation and Addition of Supramolecular Polymers