Issue 65, 2015

Chemical gardens without silica: the formation of pure metal hydroxide tubes

Abstract

Contrary to common belief, hollow precipitation tubes form in the absence of silicate if sodium hydroxide solution is injected into solutions of various metal ions. In many cases, the growth speed has a power law dependence on the flow rate. For vanadyl, we observe damped oscillations in the tube height.

Graphical abstract: Chemical gardens without silica: the formation of pure metal hydroxide tubes

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Article information

Article type
Communication
Submitted
08 Jun 2015
Accepted
08 Jul 2015
First published
09 Jul 2015

Chem. Commun., 2015,51, 12962-12965

Author version available

Chemical gardens without silica: the formation of pure metal hydroxide tubes

B. C. Batista and O. Steinbock, Chem. Commun., 2015, 51, 12962 DOI: 10.1039/C5CC04724B

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