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Kinetics of Periodic Pattern Formation in Diffusion-Reaction in a Gel

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 February 2011

C-S. Kuo ,
R. Bansil  and
E. L. Cabarcos
C-S. Kuo
Affiliation:
Chemistry Department, Boston University, Boston, MA 02215, cskuo@bu.edu
R. Bansil
Affiliation:
Physics Department, Boston University, Boston, MA 02215, rb@buphy.bu.edu
E. L. Cabarcos
Affiliation:
Departmento de Fisico Quimica, Complutense University, 28040, Madrid, Spain
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Abstract

A video photographic study of the kinetics of the precipitation reaction Na2HPO4 + CaCl2 → CaHPO4 in agarose gels is presented. Periodic precipitation, known as Liesegang bands, are observed when one of the reactants is incorporated in the gel and the other allowed to diffuse in. The time evolution of the first Liesegang band's profile provides a direct confirmation of the supersaturation model, with a decrease in intensity as the monomer concentration is depleted and the formation of a broad plateau behind the sharp band from large particles left after the incorporation of the smaller mobile particles into the rapidly growing aggregate front. The time dependence of leading edge of the precipitate front agrees with the predictions of the reaction-diffusion-supersaturation model of Liesegang band formation.

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MRS Online Proceedings Library (OPL) , Volume 463: Symposia EE – Statistical Mechanics in Physics and Biology , 1996 , 281
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Copyright © Materials Research Society 1997

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