Self-organization in precipitation reactions far from the equilibrium

E Nakouzi, O Steinbock - Science Advances, 2016 - science.org
Far from the thermodynamic equilibrium, many precipitation reactions create complex
product structures with fascinating features caused by their unusual origins. Unlike the …

Pattern formation in precipitation reactions: The Liesegang phenomenon

H Nabika, M Itatani, I Lagzi - Langmuir, 2019 - ACS Publications
Pattern formation is a frequent phenomenon in physics, chemistry, biology, and materials
science. Bottom-up pattern formation usually occurs in the interaction of the transport …

Liesegang phenomena: Spontaneous pattern formation engineered by chemical reactions

H Nabika - Current Physical Chemistry, 2015 - ingentaconnect.com
Numerous self-organized spatiotemporal patterns are seen in Nature, many of which are
controlled via minute balances between the reactions and diffusion of the constituents in …

Growing patterns

R Goh, A Scheel - Nonlinearity, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Pattern forming systems allow for a wealth of states, where wavelengths and orientation of
patterns varies and defects disrupt patches of monocrystalline regions. Growth of patterns …

Phase-field modeling of biomineralization in mollusks and corals: Microstructure vs formation mechanism

L Gránásy, L Rátkai, GI Tóth, PUPA Gilbert, I Zlotnikov… - JACS Au, 2021 - ACS Publications
While biological crystallization processes have been studied on the microscale extensively,
there is a general lack of models addressing the mesoscale aspects of such phenomena. In …

Modification of the Matalon–Packter law for self-organized periodic precipitation patterns by incorporating time-dependent diffusion flux

M Itatani, Q Fang, H Nabika - The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 2021 - ACS Publications
Spontaneous pattern formation is common in both inanimate and living systems. Although
the Liesegang pattern (LP) is a well-studied chemical model for precipitation patterns …

Phase separation mechanism for a unified understanding of dissipative pattern formation in a Liesegang system

M Itatani, Q Fang, I Lagzi, H Nabika - Physical Chemistry Chemical …, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Dissipative patterns with solid-phase transitions are ubiquitous in nature. Despite their
ubiquitous nature, there is no unified understanding of the non-equilibrium self-assembly …

Ternary eutectic dendrites: Pattern formation and scaling properties

L Rátkai, A Szállás, T Pusztai, T Mohri… - The Journal of chemical …, 2015 - pubs.aip.org
Extending previous work [Pusztai et al., Phys. Rev. E 87, 032401 (2013)], we have studied
the formation of eutectic dendrites in a model ternary system within the framework of the …

Propagating precipitation waves: experiments and modeling

MR Tinsley, D Collison, K Showalter - The Journal of Physical …, 2013 - ACS Publications
Traveling precipitation waves, including counterrotating spiral waves, are observed in the
precipitation reaction of AlCl3 with NaOH [Volford, A.; et al. Langmuir 2007, 23, 961− 964] …

Role of nuclei in Liesegang pattern formation: Insights from experiment and reaction-diffusion simulation

M Itatani, Q Fang, K Unoura… - The Journal of Physical …, 2018 - ACS Publications
Many types of periodic patterns can spontaneously form in nature across wide
spatiotemporal scales. Construction of a chemical model that mimics these periodic patterns …