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The characteristic kinetic times of micellization in the solution of a nonionic surfactant: the times of establishment of quasi-equilibrium concentrations of molecular aggregates in micellar, subcritical, and overcritical regions, times of establishment of quasi-equilibrium concentrations of molecular aggregates in the near-critical region of their sizes, the average time between two successive acts of emission of surfactant monomers by a micelle, the average value of micelle lifetime, the time of establishment of quasi-stationary mode of matter exchange between the solution and molecular aggregate, as well as the times of fast and slow relaxation in a solution were analyzed. The hierarchy of these times disclosing complex multistage kinetic process of micelle formation and decomposition and the establishment of equilibrium in the micellar solution was revealed. It was shown that this hierarchy is provided by the small parameters of the kinetic theory. The inverse problem of micellization kinetics was discussed; this problem allows us to find the characteristics of the formation work for micellar aggregate from the experimental data on the relaxation time of micellar solution.
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Kuni, F.M., Rusanov, A.I., Grinin, A.P. et al. Thermodynamic and Kinetic Foundations of the Micellization Theory: 5. Hierarchy of Kinetic Times. Colloid Journal 63, 723–730 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1013271803521
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