  We discuss the kinetics of phase conversion, through the nucleation of
bubbles and spinodal decomposition, after a chiral transition within an
effective field theory approach to low-energy QCD. We study possible effects
resulting from the finite size of the expanding system for both the initial and
the late-stage growth of domains, as well as those effects due to
inhomogeneities in the chiral field which act as a background for the fermionic
motion.
