Stirring Effect in the Belousov Zhabotinsky Reaktion
Florian Wodlei, Mihnea R. Hristea
Recently we found a new not yet investigated "effect" in the BZ reaction. It seems that a limited stirring phase can change the dynamical behaviour of the BZ reaction. The quantification and the mathematical modeling of of this effect is the topic of this ongoing investigation.
figure shows the effect of stirring in a closed ferroin-catalyzed BZ reaction system. C: No stirring at all. B: Stirring for 30 min.
A: Stirring for 60 min (all measurements were performed at constant temperature of 30°C)
Our preliminary research results were presented at the European Conference on Complex Systems (ECCS'12) in Brussels and are published in the Proceedings of the European Conference on Complex Systems 2012.
More recently we discovered that also the temperature has an effect on this behaviour other then the well-known increase in oscillation frequency. This results were presented at the Workshop on Patterns and Hydrodynamic Instabilities in Reactive Systems and in more detail at the European Conference on Complex Systems (ECCS'13)
Literature
Florian Wodlei, Mihnea R. Hristea
Effect of Limited Stirring on the Belousov Zhabotinsky Reaction
Proceedings of the European Conference on Complex Systems 2012 (September 2013) | ISBN: 978-3-319-00394-8
http://www.springer.com/physics/complexity/book/978-3-319-00394-8
Marchettini, N.; Budroni, M. A.; Rossi, F.; Masia, M.; Liverid, M. L. T. & Rusticie, M.
Role of the reagents consumption in the chaotic dynamics of the Belousov–Zhabotinsky oscillator in closed unstirred reactors
Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 2010, 12, 11062–11069 11062–11069
Rossi, F.; Budroni, M. A.; Marchettini, N.; Cutietta, L.; Rustici, M. & Liveri, M. L. T.
Chaotic dynamics in an unstirred ferroin catalyzed Belousov-Zhabotinsky reaction
Chemical Physics Letters, 2009, 480, 322-326
Rustici, M.; Branca, M.; Caravati, C. & Marchettini, N.
Evidence of a chaotic transient in a closed unstirred cerium catalyzed Belousov-Zhabotinsky system
Chemical Physics Letters, 1996, 263, 429-434
Б. П. Белоусов (B. P. Belousov)
Периодически действующая реакция и ее механизм. (the periodic reaction and its mechanism)
Сборник рефератов по радиационной медицине за 1958 г. Медгиз, 1959 (re-publication of the original article in Химия и жизнь №7 за 1982)
A. M. Жаботинский (A. M. Zhabotinsky)
Периодический процесс окисления малоновой кислоты растворе (исследование кинетики реакции Белоусова) (The periodical evolution of the oxidation of malonic acid (research on the kinetics of Belousov's reaction))
Биофизика, 9:306–311, 1964
Oscillating Liposomes encapsulating the Belousov Zhabotinsky Reaktion
Florian Wodlei in collaboration with Federico Rossi and Pasquale Stano
Similarly to previous works investigating dispersion of a BZ water solution in an oil, we are here exploring the possibilies of "chemical communication" between liposomes containing the BZ reaction. This work is a first step of an ongoing investigation on the encapsulation of the Belousov-Zhabotinsky oscillating reaction inside phospholipid vesicles (liposomes). Due to preperation methods we are also investigating the effect of sugars on the qualitative behaviour of the BZ reaction.
figure shows the effect of a stirred and closed ferroin-catalyzed BZ reaction system in presence of sugar (a) and absence
of sugar (b), and the linear dependency of the aperiodic induction phase (c). (d) shows possible liposomes
containing BZ-reactants.
Our preliminary research results of this ongoing investigation will be presented at the 9th Italian Workshop on Artificial Life and Evolutionary Computation.
Literature
Carrara, P., Stano, P., Luisi, P.L.
Giant vesicles colonies: A model for primitive cell communities
ChemBioChem 13(10), 14971502 (2012)
Tomasi, R., Noel, J.M., Zenati, A., Ristori, S., Rossi, F., Cabuil, V., Kanoufi, F., Abou-Hassan, A.
Chemical communication between liposomes encapsulating a chemical oscillatory reaction
Chemical Science 5(5), 1854-1859 (2014)
Rossi, F., Zenati, A., Ristori, S., Noel, J.M., Cabuil, V., Kanoufi, F., Abou-Hassan, A.
Activatory coupling among oscillating droplets produced in microfluidic based devices
International Journal of Unconventional Computing In Press (2014)