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Chemical Structures and Convection

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From Chemical to Biological Organization

Part of the book series: Springer Series in Synergetics ((SSSYN,volume 39))

Abstract

Whereas cellular patterns in driven hydrodynamic systems have been known for nearly a century /1/, the observation of organized behavior (periodic oscillations, waves,…) in complex chemical systems is much more recent. It goes back to the work of Belousov and Zhabotinsky and came as a surprise to most chemists. They were indeed at first considered as rather exotic phenomena (although they had been shown, by Glansdorff and Prigogine /2/, not to be in contradiction with basic thermodynamic principles), but it is now apparent that an increasing number of complex chemical networks may exhibit this type of behavior when functioning sufficiently far from thermal equilibrium /3/. Much effort has lately gone into the precise determination of the characteristics of the various kind of waves (fronts /4/, target patterns /5/ and spiral waves /6,7/) in order to understand the mechanism of their formation.

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Borckmans, P., Dewel, G. (1988). Chemical Structures and Convection. In: Markus, M., Müller, S.C., Nicolis, G. (eds) From Chemical to Biological Organization. Springer Series in Synergetics, vol 39. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-73688-9_13

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