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Traveling waves and nonequilibrium stationary patterns in two-component reactive langmuir monolayers
Ramon Reigada1, Francesc Sagués, Alexander S Mikhailov
1Departament de Química-Física, Universitat de Barcelona, Avinguda Diagonal 647, 08028 Barcelona, Spain.
Physical Review Letters
|July 30, 2002
Abstract:
A simple kinetic model of a two-component phase-separating Langmuir monolayer with a chemical reaction is proposed. Its analysis and numerical simulations show that nonequilibrium periodic stationary structures and patterns of traveling stripes can spontaneously develop. The nonequilibrium phase diagram of this system is constructed and the properties of the patterns are discussed.