pH Oscillator Stretched in Space but Frozen in Time.
Chemical oscillations are studied using a continuous-flow microfluidic system transforming the time domain of chemical oscillators into a spatial domain. This system allows one (i) to monitor the dynamics of chemical oscillators with the accuracy of vigorously stirred batch reactors but with the ease and speed of CSTRs and (ii) to rapidly screen the phase space of chemical oscillators in just one experiment versus a traditional series of batch measurements.
†Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering and Department of Chemistry, Northwestern University, 2145 Sheridan Road, Evanston, Illinois 60208, United States.
Thomas M
TM
Hermans
‡School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Glasgow, 15 University Gardens, Glasgow G12 8QW, United Kingdom.
Peter S
PS
Stewart
†Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering and Department of Chemistry, Northwestern University, 2145 Sheridan Road, Evanston, Illinois 60208, United States.
Bartosz A
BA
Grzybowski
D003198:Computer Simulation / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D004563:Electrochemistry / Q000379:methods*; D007700:Kinetics; D009532:Nickel; D017711:Nonlinear Dynamics; D013053:Spectrophotometry / Q000379:methods*; D013997:Time Factors
D009532:Nickel
chemical oscillator; complexity; microfluidics; nonlinear chemical dynamics; reaction−diffusion