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Open spatial reactors have been developed, in which well-defined states of spatiotemporal patterns of chemical systems can be sustained indefinitely by external feeds of reagents. These reactors overcome restrictions of evolving irreversibly toward thermodynamical equilibrium and lacking of precise control parameters in closed reactors used in previous experiments. Thus, stabilities and transitions between well-defined states of patterns can be studied by changing some external control parameter. Using these reactors we observed various transitions between states and obtained the first experimental results of bifurcation sequences of spatiotemporal patterns in chemical systems.
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Tam, W.Y. (1990). Pattern Formation in Chemical Systems. In: Lam, L., Morris, H.C. (eds) Nonlinear Structures in Physical Systems. Woodward Conference. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-3440-1_9
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