About this Research Topic
Interest in chemical oscillations has grown in the second half of the past century, and continues to stimulate frontier research. Periodic and aperiodic oscillations as well as deterministic chaos have been observed in a wide class of chemical reactions, coined chemical oscillators, and conjectured using complex mechanistic schemes and advanced mathematical modeling. Pattern formation and wave propagation in excitable media have lately attracted considerable scientific interest in the context of nonlinear chemical kinetics because of a new approach to micro- and nanofabrication. Chemical reactions couple to transport processes in a variety of media to produce a panorama of macroscopic patterns, which can exhibit beautiful visual landscapes. Such reaction-transport scenarios have found their niche in a broad spectrum of applications across the biological, ecological and earth sciences. Chemical waves and pattern formation were observed and reported at the macroscopic, mesoscopic, microscopic, nanoscale and even molecular levels.
This Research Topic in Frontiers in Physics aims at grouping original research findings in this field. It is our hope to achieve this goal, while maintaining a balance between the latest original experimental progress and theoretical modeling advances. We thus invite investigators to contribute to this endeavor in both original research and review articles.
Nonlinear dynamical systems span a broad spectrum of interdisciplinary areas of Science, Engineering and Social Change. This Topic addresses the study of common evolutionary aspects across a wide class of phenomena in diverse fields. It aims at unraveling the scenarios that underlie the dynamical language of evolutionary Physics, Chemistry, Biology and other related disciplines. At the same time, it explores possible technical and industrial applications for the understanding of the dynamical parameters of our changing universe. It therefore serves as a bridge between the various sciences and technology, consolidates the knowledge in this specific scope and presents the most recent advances.
The Editors invite contributions describing the evolutionary dynamics in the following research fields:
• Oscillating chemical reactions
• Frontal polymerization
• Glycolysis
• Calcium waves
• Metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) dynamics
• Precipitate systems
• Metabolic cycles
• Bacteria colonies
• Chemical gardens
• Weather changes
• Nanosystems
• Theoretical modeling
• Biological applications
• Fractals
• Geochemical self-organization
• Nerve conduction systems
• Chaos
• Chemical methods of direction and distance sensing
• Solitons
• DNA and RNA templated pattern formation and oscillations
• Photochemically induced pattern formation and oscillations
• Collective motion
This Research Topic in Frontiers in Physics aims at grouping original research findings in this field. It is our hope to achieve this goal, while maintaining a balance between the latest original experimental progress and theoretical modeling advances. We thus invite investigators to contribute to this endeavor in both original research and review articles.
Nonlinear dynamical systems span a broad spectrum of interdisciplinary areas of Science, Engineering and Social Change. This Topic addresses the study of common evolutionary aspects across a wide class of phenomena in diverse fields. It aims at unraveling the scenarios that underlie the dynamical language of evolutionary Physics, Chemistry, Biology and other related disciplines. At the same time, it explores possible technical and industrial applications for the understanding of the dynamical parameters of our changing universe. It therefore serves as a bridge between the various sciences and technology, consolidates the knowledge in this specific scope and presents the most recent advances.
The Editors invite contributions describing the evolutionary dynamics in the following research fields:
• Oscillating chemical reactions
• Frontal polymerization
• Glycolysis
• Calcium waves
• Metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) dynamics
• Precipitate systems
• Metabolic cycles
• Bacteria colonies
• Chemical gardens
• Weather changes
• Nanosystems
• Theoretical modeling
• Biological applications
• Fractals
• Geochemical self-organization
• Nerve conduction systems
• Chaos
• Chemical methods of direction and distance sensing
• Solitons
• DNA and RNA templated pattern formation and oscillations
• Photochemically induced pattern formation and oscillations
• Collective motion
Keywords: Nonlinear dynamics, reaction-diffusion, pattern formation, oscillations, chemical waves, chaos, fractals
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