Comparative Evaluation of Chemical Garden Growth Techniques

Abstract

Chemical gardens are an exciting area of selforganized precipitation structures that form nano-and micro-sized structures in different shapes. This field has attracted great interest from researchers due to the specific characteristics and potential applications of these structures. Today, research on chemical gardens has provided deeper information regarding the formation mechanisms of these structures, and several techniques have been developed for chemical garden growth. However, they all show different growth patterns and lead to the formation of structures with a variety of morphological, chemical, or physical properties. This study aimed to evaluate the effects of different production techniques on chemical garden growth, taking into consideration the growth patterns, morphology, microstructure, and chemical composition. The chemical garden structures obtained in seed and injection experiments, two common methods, showed highly similar surface structures, void formation, and chemical composition. The membrane growth method has a small number of applications; thus, it was comprehensively evaluated to add new insights to the existing limited data. It produced the most stable and standard structures in a flat sheet-like shape and showed different morphologies than those observed in other two methods. Overall, this study presented significant results about the effect of growth techniques on chemical garden structures and similar systems.

Interface Engineering Enables Multilevel Resistive Switching in Ultra-Low-Power Chemobrionic Copper Silicate

“…One classic instance of a chemobrionic system is represented by vertically growing tube-like chemical gardens, which were originally documented in 1646 by Glauber. Chemical gardens are among the earliest innovative methods in chemistry, and they have recently spurred significant interest in the field of self-organization and material science. , Chemical gardens are made up of macroscopic, typically colorful tubes that can grow to be several centimeters long in seconds to minutes. , Plant-like or tube-like precipitation occurs in classical chemical gardens as a result of the diffusional migration of ionic species defying gravity caused by osmotic imbalance in the reaction mixture, in addition to an interplay of buoyancy in the reaction mixture. , Even though chemical garden architectures have advantageous features such as porosity, large surface area, and reactive internal surfaces with chemical and adsorption properties, their potential applications are currently limited or have not been explored. The electrochemical nature of self-organizing chemobrionic membranes remains inadequately known, and further investigations are necessary. , …”