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Chemical self-organization

A path to patterns

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Scientists have long been intrigued by a mechanism first predicted by Alan Turing that leads to self-organizing chemical patterns. Now they have a guide to creating them experimentally.

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Figure 1: Experimental Turing patterns of activator and inhibitor.

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  1. Annette F. Taylor is in the School of Chemistry, University of Leeds, Woodhouse Lane, Leeds LS2 9JT, UK A.F.Taylor@leeds.ac.uk,

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  2. Mark R. Tinsley is in the Department of Chemistry, West Virginia University, Morgantown, West Virginia 26506-6045, USA. mark.tinsley@mail.wvu.edu,

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Taylor, A., Tinsley, M. A path to patterns. Nature Chem 1, 340–341 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1038/nchem.310

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