title: Chemical morphogenesis: recent experimental advances in reaction-diffusion system design and control.
abstract: In his seminal 1952 paper, Alan Turing predicted that diffusion could spontaneously drive an initially uniform solution of reacting chemicals to develop stable spatially periodic concentration patterns. It took nearly 40 years before the first two unquestionable experimental demonstrations of such reaction-diffusion patterns could be made in isothermal single phase reaction systems. The number of these examples stagnated for nearly 20 years. We recently proposed a design method that made their number increase to six in less than 3 years. In this report, we formally justify our original semi-empirical method and support the approach with numerical simulations based on a simple but realistic kinetic model. To retain a number of basic properties of real spatial reactors but keep calculations to a minimal complexity, we introduce a new way to collapse the confined spatial direction of these reactors. Contrary to similar reduced descriptions, we take into account the effect of the geometric size in the confinement direction and the influence of the differences in the diffusion coefficient on exchange rates of species with their feed environment. We experimentally support the method by the observation of stationary patterns in red-ox reactions not based on oxihalogen chemistry. Emphasis is also brought on how one of these new systems can process different initial conditions and memorize them in the form of localized patterns of different geometries.
authors.affiliation: Laboratory of Nonlinear Chemical Dynamics, Institute of Chemistry, Eötvös Loránd University, PO Box 32, H-1518 Budapest 112, Hungary.
authors.forename: István
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Szalai
authors.forename: Daniel
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Cuiñas
authors.forename: Nándor
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Takács
authors.forename: Judit
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Horváth
authors.forename: Patrick
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: De Kepper
keywords: dissipative structures; nonlinear chemistry; patterns; reaction–diffusion
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