Bartelt , Privman 

KINETICS OF IRREVERSIBLE MONOLAYER AND MULTILAYER ADSORPTION
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ABSTRACT.  
We review recent theoretical developments of microscopic
lattice and continuum models of the kinetics of irreversible
monolayer and multilayer surface adsorption. Such models
have been used to describe adhesion and reaction processes
of colloidal particles and proteins at solid surfaces.
Theoretical results surveyed here include the void-filling 
rate equation approach, exact results for low dimensionalities, 
the mean-field theory, and large-time kinetics arguments.
Numerical simulations serving to test and supplement the 
analytical theories, are reviewed as well. We also elucidate
the crossover from the discrete to continuum behavior, analyzed 
via scaling arguments in the large-time limit of the deposition
kinetics.