The field of self-organization in nonequilibrium chemical systems comprises the study of dynamical phenomena in chemically reacting systems far from equilibrium. Systematic exploration of this area began with investigations of the temporal behavior of the Belousov-Zhabotinsky oscillating reaction, discovered accidentally in the former Soviet Union in the 1950s. The field soon advanced into chem...

Notes by ChangHoon Lim 1. Warburg impedance for semi-infinite oscillating diffusion Warburg (Ann. Physik. 1899) is credited with the first solution to the diffusion equation with oscillating concentration at the boundary, which is related to the diffusional (or mass transfer) impedance of electrochemical systems. An interesting point made in the first part of the class is that the very same mat...

Oscillating chemical bulk reactions of the Belousov–Zhabotinsky (BZ) type usually show a welldefined periodical color change representing the underlying chemical reactions. Models including up to more than 50 coupled reactions have been developed to describe the BZ-reaction in detail, however, typically a much simpler set of equations is used (i.e. the Brüsselator, the FKN, or the FitzHugh–Nagu...

We present experiments on the synchronization of a dynamical, chemical process in an extended, flowing, fluid system. The oscillatory Belousov-Zhabotinsky chemical reaction is the process studied, and the flow is an annular chain of counterrotating vortices. Azimuthal motion of the vortices is controlled externally, enabling us to vary the type of transport. We find that oscillations of the Bel...

We investigated the self-oscillating behaviors of two types of polymer chains induced by the Belousov-Zhabotinsky (BZ) reaction. One consisted of N-isopropylacrylamide (NIPAAm) and the Ru catalyst of the BZ reaction, and the other consisted of NIPAAm, the Ru catalyst, and acrylamide-2-methylpropanesulfonic acid (AMPS) with a negatively charged domain as a solubility control site. A comparison o...

The fluctuation theorems for dissipation and the currents are applied to the stochastic version of the reversible Brusselator model of nonequilibrium oscillating reactions. It is verified that the symmetry of these theorems holds far from equilibrium in the regimes of noisy oscillations. Moreover, the fluctuation theorem for the currents is also verified for a truncated Brusselator model.

Abstract In this petrographic and geochemical study, we differentiated diverse quartz botryoids, including circular-concentric, twinned, columnar, wavy, stromatolite-like structures versus synchronous biotic patterns of similar geometry size dimensions (filamentous traits stromatolites) in Precambrian cherts Barberton, South Africa, Gunflint, Canada. The botryoidal habits explored retained self...

This paper reviews the latest developments in the field of spin chemistry with a particular focus on the effects of weak static and/or oscillating magnetic fields (typically smaller than the average hyperfine coupling) on radical recombination reactions. Anisotropic magnetic field effects and their significance in the debate about potential mechanisms controlling magnetoreception in birds are d...

Oscillating chemical reactions are complex nonlinear systems, which can exhibit different dynamic regimes such as regular and irregular oscillations, as well as chaos under different conditions. Such sorts of behavior in chemical and biological systems offer many choices for application to analytical chemistry. So far, regular oscillating profiles have been applied widely for the determination ...