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Amplification of changes of a thin film's macromolecular structure into macroscopic reaction-diffusion patterns
Agnieszka Bitner1, Marcin Fiałkowski, Stoyan K Smoukov
1Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering and Northwestern Institute for Complexity, Northwestern University, 2145 Sheridan Road, Evanston, IL 60208, USA.
Abstract:
A reaction-diffusion process induced from a micronetwork geometry amplifies changes in the molecular structure of a thin gel film into macroscopic readout patterns. When the gel undergoes a helix-to-coil phase transition, the patterns formed by RD switch from symmetry-broken to symmetric ones. Theoretical analysis explains how the system reconfigures internally in response to mass transfer between the applied network and the probed film.
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