| Language: | English |
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| Type: | Article |
| Authors: | Mariko Matsushita, Hiroyuki Kitahata and Satoshi Nakata |
| Journal: | Journal of Physical Chemistry A |
| ISSN: | 1089-5639 |
| Volume: | 111 |
| Number: | 26 |
| Month: | 7 |
| Year: | 2007 |
| Actual year: | 2007 |
| Pages: | 5833-5838 |
| doi: | 10.1021/jp068207n |
| Abstract: | The photosensitive Belousov-Zhabotinsky (BZ) reaction was investigated on a double rectangular field composed of two rectangular routes, which was drawn using computer software and then projected using a liquid-crystal projector on a filter paper soaked with BZ solution. When two chemical waves were generated on the rectangular routes as the initial condition, the nature of the collision of the waves could be theoretically classified into four categories depending on the initial phase difference between the two waves and the aspect ratio of the rectangular routes. The experimental results were consistent with the features of the theoretical prediction. These results suggest that the feature of wave propagation characteristically develops depending on the geometry of the excitable fields. |
Mariko Matsushita, Hiroyuki Kitahata and Satoshi Nakata, Journal of Physical Chemistry A, 111, 5833-5838 (2007)