Self-organization of calcium oxalate by flow-driven precipitation

Chem Commun (Camb). 2014 Apr 28;50(33):4289-91. doi: 10.1039/c4cc00205a.

Abstract

We have analyzed the emerging precipitate pattern of calcium-oxalate in a flow system. The circular symmetry is broken because of the hydrodynamic instability at the tip of the underlying gravity current. The presence of a concentration gradient maintained by the flow leads to the enrichment of the thermodynamically unstable calcium oxalate dihydrate form.