Various resonant and near-resonant patterns form in a light-sensitive Belousov-Zhabotinsky (BZ) reaction in response to a spatially homogeneous time-periodic perturbation with light. The regions (tongues) in the forcing frequency and forcing amplitude parameter plane where resonant patterns form are identified through analysis of the temporal response of the patterns. Resonant and near-resonant...

A chemical active medium on the base of Belousov-Zhabotinsky (BZ) medium was used to design a “chemical diode”. This system, similar to a semiconductor diode, shows unidirectional propagation of chemical pulses and may be possible to be used to construct a massively parallel computational medium. The system of two mesoporous glass plates with ferroin loaded at the surface was covered by BZ solu...

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...

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 ...

Experiments on a periodically forced Belousov-Zhabotinsky chemical reaction show front breakup into a state of spatiotemporal disorder involving continual events of spiral-vortex nucleation and destruction. Using the amplitude equation for forced oscillatory systems and the normal form equations for a curved front line, we identify the mechanism of front breakup and explain the experimental obs...

Autowaves spreading in a thin layer of the Belousov-Zhabotinsky reaction with ferroin catalyst immobilized in silica gel have been studied. It is found that there is a critical thickness of this layer such that autowaves could not propagate in thinner layers. The results of computer simulations in the two-variable Rovinsky model qualitatively fit the experimental data for the temperature range ...

A photosensitive self-oscillating gel that incorporates the Belousov-Zhabotinsky reaction can undergo rhythmic mechanical oscillations. We exploit the dependence of the oscillation frequency on light intensity to generate both photophobic and phototropic movement of the gel under differential illumination. Our findings may be used in designing intelligent sensors that can execute biomimetic beh...

A transition from rotating chemical spirals to turbulence is observed in experiments on the Belousov-Zhabotinsky reaction. The transition occurs when the waves near the spiral tip spontaneously break, generating defects. Measurements reveal that this defect-mediated turbulence is caused by the Doppler effect on the traveling waves. The observations are in good accord with numerical simulations ...