The dependence of pattern formation in hydrogels undergoing the Belousov-Zhabotinsky reaction on the gel size and shape is presented in a recent Soft Matter paper for an upcoming themed issue on Active Soft Matter.
The authors use both experimental and simulation approaches to validate their own theoretical model on the chemomechanical coupling in responsive gels.
Read this Soft Matter article for free (until February 24, 2011) here, and watch out for other papers like this in the upcoming themed issue on Active Soft Matter.
Irene Chou Chen, Olga Kuksenok, Victor V. Yashin, Ryan M. Moslin, Anna C. Balazs and Krystyn J. Van Vliet, Soft Matter, 2011, Advance Article, DOI: 10.1039/C0SM01007C, Paper
