| Issue |
Europhys. Lett.
Volume 73, Number 3, February 2006
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|---|---|---|
| Page(s) | 436 - 442 | |
| Section | Interdisciplinary physics and related areas of science and technology | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1209/epl/i2005-10413-7 | |
| Published online | 23 December 2005 | |
Nonequilibrium pattern formation in chiral Langmuir monolayers with transmembrane flows
1
Department of Mathematics and Life Sciences, Hiroshima University 1-3-1 Kagamiyama, Higashi-Hiroshima, 739-8526, Japan
2
Abteilung Physikalische Chemie, Fritz-Haber-Institut der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft Faradayweg 4-6, 14195 Berlin, Germany
Received:
25
August
2005
Accepted:
8
December
2005
Nonequilibrium Langmuir monolayers including a fraction of chiral molecules and subject to transmembrane flow are considered. The flow induces coherent collective precession of chiral molecules. Our theoretical study shows that splay interactions in this system lead to spatial redistribution of chiral molecules and formation of spiral waves and target patterns observed in experiments.
PACS: 82.40.Np – Temporal and spatial patterns in surface reactions / 68.18.-g – Langmuir-Blodgett films on liquids / 07.05.Tp – Computer modeling and simulation
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