Chemical waves with line defects in the Belousov-Zhabotinsky reaction

We report our experimental observations of line-defected chemical waves in a quasi-two-dimensional reaction-diffusion system of Belousov-Zhabotinsky reaction. The observed line defects are explicit, which can be directly monitored in real time. In the parameter space, the state of the chemical waves with line defects is located between two regimes of the defect-mediated turbulence. The line defects appear in target waves as well as in spiral waves. We demonstrate that the line defects come out in traveling waves as the later reorganize their spatial topologies to adapt to the change in the local dynamics from simple to complex oscillations or vice versa.