ArticlePhilosophical transactions. Series A, Mathematical, physical, and engineering sciences2025
Diffusion-controlled growth of a planar chemical garden wall before osmotic fracture.
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- In Situ, Real-Time Imaging of pH Gradients and Solution Flows through Silica Garden Membranes during Tube Growth.Small (Weinheim an der Bergstrasse, Germany) · 2026Article
- Diffusion-controlled growth of a planar chemical garden wall before osmotic fracture.Philosophical transactions. Series A, Mathematical, physical, and engineering sciences · 2025Article
- Emerging directions for biologically active fluids.Philosophical transactions. Series A, Mathematical, physical, and engineering sciences · 2025Article
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Chemical gardens refer to a class of self-assembling structures of semi-permeable precipitates. They have been attracting significant interest due to their relevance to sub-oceanic hydrothermal vents and the origin of life. We have investigated the growth behaviour of chemical garden walls in a horizontal Hele-Shaw cell. The experiments were conducted with pellets of either solid cobalt(II) or manganese(II) chloride contained in aqueous sodium silicate solutions. It is found that the growth of the chemical garden walls can be well described by a simple, diffusion-controlled dynamical model until their eventual osmotic fracture at a reproducible time. This provides a basis by which wall growth in more complex chemical garden systems can be characterized.This article is part of the theme issue 'Biological fluid dynamics: emerging directions'.
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