Agglomeration Drawing

The original is not for sale through Saatchi. Please find my artist website (or order a print here) instead This drawing is matted in an archival mat with foam core backing. The matted outer dimension is 16 x 20 inches. I will sandwich the mat in more foamcore to protect the piece from bending and dings during shipping. Agglomeration is a process in Chemistry, Biochemistry and Softmatter where molecules stick together to form particles and particles stick together to form larger clumps. These clumps are agglomerated. The name "agglomeration" implies a disordered or amorphous clump, in contrast to "crystallization", which produces ordered solid particles. Agglomeration can be a useful phenomenon, for example in chemistry reaction products are often recovered by precipitation. The solvent is made "less good" for the reaction products using temperature or solvent composition and the reaction products start to agglomerate forming precipitates. A disordered precipitate can be useful because disordered solids are generally easier to dissolve than highly crystalline solids. Low density flocculates can be especially useful for this purpose. Agglomeration and agglomerates can also be a challenge if disordered agglomerates form when a Chemist, Biochemist, or Chemical Engineer is trying to crystallize the molecules in the agglomerate. They are also a challenge when the desire is to fold up the molecules into ordered structures - for example, the complex molecular "origami" that occurs in protein folding. Since polymers and proteins are long squiggly molecules, getting them into ordered structures is difficult. There are also many sites along a polymer or protein molecule where the molecule can stick to other molecules and glom onto them in a disordered fashion. In "agglomeration", long tortuous ink lines twine around one another in a layered disordered mass. The mines echo the molecular structure of polymers and unfolded proteins. Portions of the agglomerate are represented as featureless concentric circles, suggesting highly dense intractable portions of the particle. In protein folding these would be areas of miscrystallized beta sheet and other locally ordered "mistakes" in how the molecules put themselves together into a solid.

Drawing:Ink on Paper

Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:14 W x 11 H x 0.1 D in

Delivery Time:Typically 5-7 business days for domestic shipments, 10-14 business days for international shipments.