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The search for Turing structures

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Albeit their prediction by Turing, chemical periodic stationary patterns under far from equilibrium conditions, which are considered as prototypes of dissipative structures, have not yet been observed in a clear-cut way. We here assess the situation and discuss the perturbative influence of convection on their formation and selection mechanisms.

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  1. Service de Chimie-Physique II, Université Libre de Bruxelles, 1050, Bruxelles, Belgium

    P. Borckmans, G. Dewel & D. Walgraef

  2. College of Engineering, Nihon University, Koriyama, 963, Fukushima, Japan

    Y. Katayama

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Borckmans, P., Dewel, G., Walgraef, D. et al. The search for Turing structures. J Stat Phys 48, 1031–1044 (1987). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01009531

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