Question

Material preventing nucleation, why is it not used for soda container?

Answer 1

The motivation to use such materials would be that bubbles of CO2CO2 would not form at all, because if I'm not wrong bubbles are forming on the walls of the bottle or glass thanks to heterogeneous nucleation due to microscopic cracks or "imperfections" (i.e. the crystal isn't plane. In a common glass the atoms aren't ordered like in a crystal and this favors heterogeneous nucleation) while homogeneous nucleation never occurs because the radius of the bubble required for it to occur is too big and so the probability that it's created spontaneously is almost nil. Therefore the bottle or glass would, I believe, only slowly lose CO2CO2 gas through the interface liquid/air which is due to diffusion and occurs because the chemical potential "μμ" of the soda is higher than the chemical potential of the air. So the process will end when there is no more CO2CO2 in the soda, if I assume that there's no CO2CO2 in the air which is a good approximation.