摘要:

The first 22 papers in this issue ofPCCPform a “Special Issue” of the journal focussing on recent advances in the area of “nonlinear chemical kinetics”. Many of these papers arise from work presented as posters at two conferences held in September 2001: a Workshop sponsored by the European Science Foundation Scientific ProgrammeREACTORheld in Leeds from 7th–9th September and Faraday Discussion 120 held in Manchester from 10th–12th September. In several cases, authors have been supported by ESFREACTORfunding through travel grants: appropriate acknowledgements are given in the papers concerned, but this activity indicates the international collaborations that have traditionally characterised this area of physical chemistry. In addition to the international nature, the subject area is strongly interdisciplinary. The papers here, as at the preceding conferences, cover basic kinetic and mechanistic physical chemistry andits interactions with biology, engineering and materials science. Topics of current interest include pattern formation, the exploitation of chemical systems as models for biological phenomena,e.g.in the determination of generic responses of so-called “excitable media” and the coupling of nonlinear chemistry with fluid dynamics.The issue starts with a review of recent work on the classic problem of Liesegang patterns and this theme is continued in subsequent papers. These are followed by a set of papers describing behaviour in well-stirred systems and then by papers on pattern formation and wave propagation. Interest in these areas is developing into methodologies for controlling the behaviour exhibited. Finally, a sequence of papers address the beginnings of exploitation of our understanding of nonlinear dynamics in “chemical electronics”, surface-catalysed reactions, biological systems, polymeric systems and systems with phase transitions or surface activity.S. K. Scott, University of Leeds

ISSN:1463-9076     

DOI:10.1039/b202343c

出版商:RSC    

年代:2002

数据来源: RSC