Nucleation stage with nonsteady growth of supercritical gas bubbles in a strongly supersaturated liquid solution and the effect of excluded volume.

An approach to the kinetics of barrier formation of supercritical gas bubbles in a strongly supersaturated liquid solution is presented. A common assumption of uniform reduction of a dissolved gas supersaturation in a liquid solution via stationary diffusion to nucleating gas bubbles is shown to be not applicable to the case of high gas supersaturations. The approach recognizes that the diffusion growth of supercritical bubbles at high gas supersaturation is essentially nonstationary.

Boltzmann distributions and slow relaxation in systems with spherical and cylindrical micelles.

Equilibrium and nonequilibrium distributions of molecular aggregates in a solution of a nonionic surfactant are investigated at the total surfactant concentration above the second critical micelle concentration (CMC2). The investigation is not limited by the choice of a specific micellar model. Expressions for the direct and reverse fluxes of molecular aggregates over the potential humps of the aggregation work are derived.