Isotopic Effect on the Kinetics of the Belousov-Zhabotinsky Reaction

Reaction kinetics of nanostructured SOFC cathodes

Tutorial Review: Simulation of Oscillating Chemical Reactions Using Microsoft Excel Macros

Oscillating reactions are one of the most interesting topics in chemistry and analytical chemistry. Fluctuations in concentrations of one the reacting species (usually a reaction intermediate) create an oscillating chemical reaction. In oscillating systems, the reaction is far from thermodynamic equilibrium. In these systems, at least one autocatalytic step is required. Developing an instinctiv...

A Mathematical Model for Enzyme Kinetics: Multiple Timescales Analysis

We summarize some of the work on enzyme kinetics presented by J. D. Murray in his Mathematical Biology I book. We study a basic model for enzymesubstrate reaction. Through several assumptions and via nondimensionalization, we simplify the equations. Then we use a multiple timescales method to derive asymptotic solutions to the model.

Shanks Modeling Biological Systems : the Belousov – Zhabotinsky Reaction

In this essay I examine the ways in which the Belousov– Zhabotinsky (BZ) reaction is being used by biologists to model a variety of biological systems and processes. The BZ reaction is characterized as a functional model of biological phenomena. It is able to play this role because, though based on very different substrates, the model and system modeled are examples of the same type of excitabl...

Fabrication of quasi-two-dimensional, heterogeneously curved Belousov–Zhabotinsky systems

For many years the Belousov–Zhabotinsky reaction has been used to explore the large variety of dynamical behavior of excitation waves. The understanding of chemical waves can be applied to other physical and biological systems. Most theoretical and experimental work has been done in planar media, whereas for nonplanar systems there exist many theoretical but only very few experimental studies. ...