It's extraordinary that the physical basis of #osmosis, one of the most important forces in biology, has been and is still widely mischaracterized in textbooks. One hundred years ago Peter #Debye published a simple kinetic theory that accounts for osmosis.
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/recl.19230420711?casa_token=OLs0ScDPfJ0AAAAA:C_ALin1iXgBxXfhDX5b2OtSXksF_NkMg2EeElK-cldAVDRbytU0NuO3IcV93DIMLnbsslrwK9gEIu8M
It is remarkable that despite Debye's renown as a physicist his paper slipped into oblivion except for traces in a textbook.
https://books.google.fr/books/about/Physical_Chemistry.html?id=0S1RAAAAMAAJ&redir_esc=y