Amplification of changes of a thin film's macromolecular structure into macroscopic reaction-diffusion patterns.
A reaction-diffusion process induced from a micronetwork geometry amplifies changes in the molecular structure of a thin gel film into macroscopic readout patterns. When the gel undergoes a helix-to-coil phase transition, the patterns formed by RD switch from symmetry-broken to symmetric ones. Theoretical analysis explains how the system reconfigures internally in response to mass transfer between the applied network and the probed film.
Bitner
Agnieszka
A
Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering and Northwestern Institute for Complexity, Northwestern University, 2145 Sheridan Road, Evanston, IL 60208, USA.
Fiałkowski
Marcin
M
Smoukov
Stoyan K
SK
Campbell
Christopher J
CJ
Grzybowski
Bartosz A
BA