“…Upon any deviation from equilibrium, relaxation processes reestablish a new equilibrium molecular distribution among states and aggregates. This has been investigated by various methods for creating nonequilibrium situations, such as temperature-jump, pressure jump, and stopped-flow mixing, and by various detection methods, such as conductivity, turbidity, and X-ray scattering measurements. ,− Hence, two relaxation regimes were revealed with characteristic times differing by as much as 3 orders of magnitude . In the well-known theory of Aniansson et al, − the fast relaxation, often characterizable by a single time constant τ 1 , is assigned to establishing a pseudoequilibrium through monomer exchange processes, whereas the slow relaxation (τ 2 ) is indicative of stepwise disintegration and formation of micelles.…”