Chemical tessellations

de Lacy Costello, Ben; Jahan, Ishrat; Adamatzky, Andrew; Ratcliffe, Norman M.

Abstract

We report a simple set of chemical reactions based on the reaction of a range of metal salts with potassium ferricyanide loaded gels that spontaneously produce complex and colorful tessellations of the plane. These reactions provide a great resource for scientific demonstrations, whilst also constituting an important class of nonlinear pattern forming reaction. © 2009 World Scientific Publishing Company.

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Publication Date: Jan 1, 2009
• Journal: International Journal of Bifurcation and Chaos
• Print ISSN: 0218-1274
• Electronic ISSN: 1793-6551
• Publisher: World Scientific Publishing
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 19
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 619-622
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1142/S0218127409023238
• Keywords: pattern formation, parallel chemical processors, chemical computing, Voronoi diagrams
• Public URL: https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/1006633
• Publisher URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1142/S0218127409023238