Abstract
The oscillatory growth of chemical gardens is studied experimentally in the budding regime using a co-flow of two reactant solutions within a microfluidic reactor. The confined environment of the reactor tames the erratic budding growth and the oscillations leave their imprint with the formation of orderly spaced membranes on the precipitate surface. The average wavelength of the spacing between membranes, the growth velocity of the chemical garden and the oscillations period are measured as a function of the velocity of each reactant. By means of materials characterization techniques, the micro-morphology and the chemical composition of the precipitate are explored. A mathematical model is developed to explain the periodic rupture of droplets delimitated by a shell of precipitate and growing when one reactant is injected into the other. The predictions of this model are in good agreement with the experimental data.
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