2020/07/22 by Silvana S. S. Cardoso, Julyan H. E. Cartwright, Jitka Čejková +8 · 1 citation
Physics and Astronomy · Neuroscience · Agricultural and Biological Sciences · #Origins and Evolution of Life #Photoreceptor and optogenetics research #Plant and Biological Electrophysiology Studies
paper · pdf · doi:10.1162/artl_a_00323
openalex publication_date 2020/07/22 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/02
Self-organizing precipitation processes, such as chemical gardens forming biomimetic micro- and nanotubular forms, have the potential to show us new fundamental science to explore, quantify, and understand nonequilibrium physicochemical systems, and shed light on the conditions for life's emergence. The physics and chemistry of these phenomena, due to the assembly of material architectures under a flux of ions, and their exploitation in applications, have recently been termed chemobrionics. Advances in understanding in this area require a combination of expertise in physics, chemistry, mathematical modeling, biology, and nanoengineering, as well as in complex systems and nonlinear and materials sciences, giving rise to this new synergistic discipline of chemobrionics.