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<article article-type="research-article" dtd-version="1.3" xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xml:lang="en"><front><journal-meta><journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">najo</journal-id><journal-title-group><journal-title xml:lang="en">Nanosystems: Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics</journal-title><trans-title-group xml:lang="ru"><trans-title>Наносистемы: физика, химия, математика</trans-title></trans-title-group></journal-title-group><issn pub-type="ppub">2220-8054</issn><issn pub-type="epub">2305-7971</issn><publisher><publisher-name>Университет ИТМО</publisher-name></publisher></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.17586/22208054201564479488</article-id><article-id custom-type="elpub" pub-id-type="custom">najo-1028</article-id><article-categories><subj-group subj-group-type="heading"><subject>Research Article</subject></subj-group><subj-group subj-group-type="section-heading" xml:lang="ru"><subject>Статьи</subject></subj-group></article-categories><title-group><article-title>Evolution of size and composition of a multicomponent gas bubble in liquid solution</article-title><trans-title-group xml:lang="ru"><trans-title>Evolution of size and composition of a multicomponent gas bubble in liquid solution</trans-title></trans-title-group></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author" corresp="yes"><name-alternatives><name name-style="eastern" xml:lang="ru"><surname>Kuchma</surname><given-names>A. E.</given-names></name><name name-style="western" xml:lang="en"><surname>Kuchma</surname><given-names>A. E.</given-names></name></name-alternatives><bio xml:lang="ru"><p>Department of Statistical Physics, Faculty of Physics</p><p>Ulyanovskaya 1, Petrodvoretz, St. Petersburg, 198504</p></bio><bio xml:lang="en"><p>Department of Statistical Physics, Faculty of Physics</p><p>Ulyanovskaya 1, Petrodvoretz, St. Petersburg, 198504</p></bio><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff-1"/></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author" corresp="yes"><name-alternatives><name name-style="eastern" xml:lang="ru"><surname>Shchekin</surname><given-names>A. K.</given-names></name><name name-style="western" xml:lang="en"><surname>Shchekin</surname><given-names>A. K.</given-names></name></name-alternatives><bio xml:lang="ru"><p>Department of Statistical Physics, Faculty of Physics</p><p>Ulyanovskaya 1, Petrodvoretz, St. Petersburg, 198504</p></bio><bio xml:lang="en"><p>Department of Statistical Physics, Faculty of Physics</p><p>Ulyanovskaya 1, Petrodvoretz, St. Petersburg, 198504</p></bio><email xlink:type="simple">akshch@list.ru</email><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff-1"/></contrib></contrib-group><aff xml:lang="en" id="aff-1"><institution>St. Petersburg State University</institution><country>Russian Federation</country></aff><pub-date pub-type="collection"><year>2015</year></pub-date><pub-date pub-type="epub"><day>16</day><month>08</month><year>2025</year></pub-date><volume>6</volume><issue>4</issue><fpage>479</fpage><lpage>488</lpage><permissions><copyright-statement>Copyright &amp;#x00A9; Kuchma A.E., Shchekin A.K., 2025</copyright-statement><copyright-year>2025</copyright-year><copyright-holder xml:lang="ru">Kuchma A.E., Shchekin A.K.</copyright-holder><copyright-holder xml:lang="en">Kuchma A.E., Shchekin A.K.</copyright-holder><license xml:lang="ru" license-type="creative-commons-attribution" xlink:href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" xlink:type="simple"><license-p>Данная работа распространяется под лицензией Creative Commons Attribution 4.0.</license-p></license><license xml:lang="en" license-type="creative-commons-attribution" xlink:href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" xlink:type="simple"><license-p>This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.</license-p></license></permissions><self-uri xlink:href="https://nanojournal.ifmo.ru/jour/article/view/1028">https://nanojournal.ifmo.ru/jour/article/view/1028</self-uri><abstract><p>The equations describing the transient and steady stages of size and composition evolution for a gas bubble which grows or shrinks due to the diffusion of several gases dissolved in liquid solution have been derived. The diffusion fluxes for gases in the liquid mixture caused by the bubble growth or dissolution were assumed to be quasi-stationary and the mixture of the gases in the bubble was treated as ideal. The analytical solutions for the obtained evolution equations have been found for bubbles of any size with an arbitrary number of components in the case of equal products of diffusivities and solubilities of dissolved gases in the liquid solution, and for sufficiently large binary bubbles for which capillary effects can be neglected.</p></abstract><trans-abstract xml:lang="ru"><p>The equations describing the transient and steady stages of size and composition evolution for a gas bubble which grows or shrinks due to the diffusion of several gases dissolved in liquid solution have been derived. The diffusion fluxes for gases in the liquid mixture caused by the bubble growth or dissolution were assumed to be quasistationary and the mixture of the gases in the bubble was treated as ideal. The analytical solutions for the obtained evolution equations have been found for bubbles of any size with an arbitrary number of components in the case of equal products of diffusivities and solubilities of dissolved gases in the liquid solution, and for sufficiently large binary bubbles for which capillary effects can be neglected.</p></trans-abstract><kwd-group xml:lang="en"><kwd>bubble</kwd><kwd>multicomponent</kwd><kwd>supersaturated solution</kwd><kwd>diffusion</kwd><kwd>kinetics of growth</kwd></kwd-group><funding-group><funding-statement xml:lang="ru">This work was supported by the Russian Foundation for Basic Research (project No. 130301049a) and the Program of Development of St. Petersburg State University (project No. 11.37.183.2014).</funding-statement><funding-statement xml:lang="en">This work was supported by the Russian Foundation for Basic Research (project No. 130301049a) and the Program of Development of St. Petersburg State University (project No. 11.37.183.2014).</funding-statement></funding-group></article-meta></front><back><ref-list><title>References</title><ref id="cit1"><label>1</label><citation-alternatives><mixed-citation xml:lang="ru">Skripov V.P. 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