STABILITY OF THE SUPERMOLECULAR STRUCTURE
OF GELS OF LITHIUM TETRAALKYLBORATES
BY THE ACOUSTO-OPTICAL METHOD

Z. T. Dmitrieva, N. D. Khat'kov,
and N. A. Khomchenko

UDC 541.49:547.253

The destructive action of ultrasonic radiation on hydrocarbon 
gels of [B(OR)4]Li complexes has been investigated. 
It has been established that the destruction and relaxation of the 
macrostructure of these gels under the action of acoustic radiation 
depend on the time of this action and the voltage applied to them. 
The kinetic dependences of the change in the refractive index and 
in the dynamic viscosity of the gels being investigated were determined 
as the response of structurized solutions of the indicated complexes 
to ultrasound action. Mathematical models are proposed for quantitative 
estimation of the kinetic parameters of the destruction<196>relaxation 
of the supermolecular structure of the gels of the complexes being 
considered.

Institute of Petroleum Chemistry, Siberian Branch of the 
Russian Academy of Sciences, 3 Akademicheskii Ave., Tomsk, 634021, 
Russia; email: ztd@ipc.tsc.ru. Translated from Inzhenerno-Fizicheskii 
Zhurnal, Vol. 80, No. 4, pp. 13-19, July-August, 2007. Original 
article submitted November 28, 2005; revision submitted April 4, 2006.