Protein folding is often depicted as a motion along descending paths on a free energy landscape that results in a concurrent decrease in the conformational entropy of the polypeptide chain. However, to provide a description that is consistent with other natural processes, protein folding is...

An analytical description of the nucleation stage in a supersaturated vapor with instantly created supersaturation is given with taking into account the vapor concentration inhomogeneities arising as a result of depletion due to nonstationary diffusion onto growing droplets. This description is...

Based on general principles of metastable states and the mechanics of continuous media, the kinetic equation of settlement of granular material subjected to low level vibration and elastic stresses is developed. Because of confining pressure, the material remained nearly as a solid block and...

We seek to provide a general strategy to permit the study of non-equilibrium aspects of conformational transitions in various types of heteropolymers. The theoretical methods we have developed rely mainly on the Gaussian self-consistent approach that replaces the exact non-linear Langevin...

The process of multicomponent condensation is considered. The global evolution of a metastable state originally created in the system has been investigated. Kinetic description of the ordinary one channel nucleation has been corrected. The theory taking into account several channels of...

In this paper, explicit method of constructing approximations (the triangle entropy method) is developed for nonequilibrium problems. This method enables one to treat any complicated nonlinear functionals that fit best the physics of a problem (such as, for example, rates of processes) as new...

Using a one parameter free energy model for surfactants, we numerically study the effects of hydrodynamics in the microemulsion and lamellar phases. Our results show that the dynamical correlation function has temporal oscillations for a range of hydrodynamical coupling strengths in the...