Counterintuitive Crystallization: Rate Effects in Calcium Phosphate Nucleation at Near-Physiological pH

DP McDonogh, P Kirupananthan… - Crystal Growth & …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Calcium phosphates are widely present in geological and industrial settings and make up
the majority of our bone's inorganic content; however, their formation from solution is not fully …

Formation and growth of lithium phosphate chemical gardens

M Emmanuel, E Lantos, D Horváth, Á Tóth - Soft Matter, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
We show that a chemical garden can be developed from an alkaline metal precipitate using
a flow-driven setup. By injecting sodium phosphate solution into lithium chloride solution …

Dissimilar chemobrionic growth in copper silicate chemical gardens in the absence or presence of light

VK Patel, B Busupalli - Chemical Communications, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
The effect of the absence of light on chemical garden growth has been neglected although
the gardens resemble hydrothermal vents that grow in dark in the sea/ocean. Herein, we …

Flow-driven synthesis of calcium phosphate–calcium alginate hybrid chemical gardens

R Zahorán, P Kumar, Á Juhász, D Horváth, Á Tóth - Soft Matter, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Systems far-from-equilibrium self-assemble into spatiotemporal structures. Here, we report
on the formation of calcium alginate gardens along with their inorganic hybrids when a …

Downward fingering accompanies upward tube growth in a chemical garden grown in a vertical confined geometry

Y Ding, CM Gutiérrez-Ariza, M Zheng… - Physical Chemistry …, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Chemical gardens are self-assembled structures of mineral precipitates enabled by semi-
permeable membranes. To explore the effects of gravity on the formation of chemical …

Characteristic growth of chemical gardens from mixtures of two salts

Y Kubodera, Y Xu, Y Yamaguchi, M Matsuo… - Physical Chemistry …, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Chemical gardens formed from two metal salts (MCl2 or MSO4) have been investigated to
understand the effects of mixing on the growth of precipitate tubes. The growth of tubes can …

Development of a controlled injection method using support templates for the production of chemobrionic materials

B Aslanbay Guler, Z Demirel, E Imamoglu - ACS omega, 2022 - ACS Publications
Chemobrionics is a research field about the well-known self-organized inorganic structures.
Numerous research works have focused on controlling their growth pattern and …

From Balloon to Crystalline Structure in the Calcium Phosphate Flow-Driven Chemical Garden

R Zahorán, P Kumar, Á Deák, E Lantos, D Horvath… - Langmuir, 2023 - ACS Publications
We have studied the calcium phosphate precipitation reaction by producing chemical
gardens in a controlled manner using a three-dimensional flow-driven technique. The …

Fabrication Techniques and Their Impact on the Properties of Microalgae‐Based Hybrid Biochemobrionic Materials

B Aslanbay Guler, Z Demirel… - Advanced Engineering … - Wiley Online Library
Chemobrionics has garnered significant interest across various scientific disciplines,
including chemistry, physics, material science, and regenerative medicine. To broaden their …

Pattern selection of directionally oriented chitosan tubes

C Hajdu, P Kumar, D Horváth, Á Tóth - The Journal of Chemical …, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
The growth of viscoelastic curved materials, inspired by biological systems, may give rise to
various complex structures. One of the simplest ways to control the pattern formation is to …