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The work reported on in this symposium “by Deem and Kernevez (see also [2,3,15] and references therein) suggests an analogy between some biological membrane processes and packed bad catalytic reactors, well known and well studied in chemical engineering. The analogy is quite clear if one envisions the membrane as having imbedded within it an immobilized enzyme catalyst, and as allowing other reacting molecules and ions to migrate through it from one side to the other, or longitudinally.
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Fife, P.C. (1977). Theories and Conjectures on Membrane-Supported Waves and Patterns. In: Perlmutter, A., Scott, L.F. (eds) The Significance of Nonlinearity in the Natural Sciences. Studies in the Natural Sciences, vol 13. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-7224-0_14
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