Influence of temporal surface effects on the asymptotic behaviour of the nucleation-and-growth phenomena in some biopolymeric systems

Surface or interface effects with temporal memories may even strikingly change the kinetic behaviour of the growing system. It turns out that the modified normal grain growth approach working in a regime of the long (fat)-tail kinetics offers a proper detection of the interfacial temporal changes on the system's behaviour while a modified Mullins-Sekerka instability concept can rather hardly feel presence of a memory effect at the interface. Some extension of the approach to a nonequilibrium regime and/or application of a noise can change this situation to some extent. (C) 1998 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.