title: Amplification of changes of a thin film's macromolecular structure into macroscopic reaction-diffusion patterns.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering and Northwestern Institute for Complexity, Northwestern University, 2145 Sheridan Road, Evanston, IL 60208, USA.
authors.forename: Agnieszka
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Bitner
authors.forename: Marcin
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Fiałkowski
authors.forename: Stoyan K
authors.initials: SK
authors.lastname: Smoukov
authors.forename: Christopher J
authors.initials: CJ
authors.lastname: Campbell
authors.forename: Bartosz A
authors.initials: BA
authors.lastname: Grzybowski