Belousov-Zhabotinsky autonomic hydrogel composites: Regulating waves via asymmetry

Belousov-zhabotinsky Autonomic Hydrogel Composites: Regulating Waves via Asymmetry (postprint)

Belousov-Zhabotinsky autonomic hydrogel composites: Regulating waves via asymmetry

Belousov-Zhabotinsky (BZ) autonomic hydrogel composites contain active nodes of immobilized catalyst (Ru) encased within a nonactive matrix. Designing functional hierarchies of chemical and mechanical communication between these nodes enables applications ranging from encryption, sensors, and mechanochemical actuators to artificial skin. However, robust design rules and verification of computat...

Morphogenesis in Belousov - Zhabotinsky microdroplets

Submitted for the MAR13 Meeting of The American Physical Society Morphogenesis in Belousov-Zhabotinsky microdroplets1 NING LI, NATHAN TOMPKINS, CAMILLE GIRABAWE, IRVING EPSTEIN, SETH FRADEN, Brandeis University, BRANDEIS/MRSEC TEAM — We present experimental evidence for the six cases Alan Turing predicted using linear stability analysis in his 1952 paper “The chemical basis of morphogenesis” in...

Microfluidic Systems for the Belousov-Zhabotinsky Reaction

We describe an experimental methodology for the study of chemical self-organization in micropatterned reaction systems. Our approach is based on office-printer-assisted soft lithography and allows the fabrication of centimeter-scale devices with reactor units as small as 50 μm. The devices are made from the elastomeric material poly(dimethylsiloxane) and are filled with a modified Belousov-Zhab...

Intermittent behaviour in the Belousov-Zhabotinsky reaction

2014 One of the possible routes to turbulence is the intermittent transition. Below the onset of turbulence regular oscillations exist, and above the onset seemingly regular oscillations are interrupted randomly by large amplitude bursts. This behaviour shows up in the Belousov-Zhabotinsky reaction. Moreover an analysis of the measurements indicates that a so-called « type 1 » transition takes ...