Growth and Form of Self-organized Branched Crystal Pattern in Nonlinear Chemical System (eBook)

Rohit Srivastava was born in Pratapgarh in the year 1986. He got his B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees from Dr. Ram Manohar Lohia Avadh University, Faizabad, India in 2005 and 2008, respectively. He received Master of Philosophy (M.Phil.) in Chemistry from Dr. Bhim Rao Ambedkar University Agra, India in 2010 and after that he worked as a project fellow on UGC major research project at Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology, Allahabad, India. He obtained his Ph.D. from Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra, Ranchi, India, in August 2015, where he investigated “Self-organization and growth of nanostructured branched crystal pattern in Belousov-Zhabotinsky type chemical reactions”. He is currently working as Post-doctoral fellow in Department of Inorganic and Physical Chemistry, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. He has published more than 15 research papers in high impact international journal, one book chapter and one book. He has received awards like Dr. DS Kothari Post-doc fellowship of UGC, Govt. of India, Institute Post-doctoral Fellowship from IIT Bombay and Institute fellowship (JRF) from BIT Mesra, Ranchi, India. He is reviewer of more than 5 international journals. His current research areas are polymer based functional nanomaterial’s for biomedical applications, self-assembly, oscillatory chemical reactions, pattern formation in reaction diffusion system and electrospun based nanofiber for biosensor applications.Narendra Yadav received PhD Degree in the subject of Chemical Science from Birla Institute of Technology (BIT), Mesra, Ranchi, in 2013. Presently, he is working as Research Scientist in the Department of Space Engineering & Rocketry, BIT Mesra, since July 2010. He has been involved in research work for the Growth of Novel Crystal Patterns Mediated with Non-Equilibrium Crystallization and Oscillatory Chemical Reactions. Dr. Yadav is also associated with various R&D activities in the area of high energy materials (HEMs) for aerospace application. He has 10 papers in peer reviewed journals and 06 publications in seminar and conference proceedings in general Chemistry and Propellant technology.Jayeeta Chattopadhyay was born in Kolkata in the year 1981. She received her Bachelor of Science with Honours in Chemistry from Bethune College, Calcutta University. She got her Master of Science in Chemistry from Devi Ahilya University, Indore (2003) and Master of Technology in Fuels and Combustion from Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra, Ranchi (2005). She obtained her Ph.D. in New Energy Engineering with best doctoral thesis award from Seoul National University of Science and Technology, S. Korea (2010). She has obtained the prestigious Fast Track Young Scientist award from Department of Science and Technology, Govt. of India (2010). She has published more than 20 research and review articles in high impact peer-reviewed international journals, and she is the owner of one international patent. She is the reviewer of more than seven high impact international journals. Her research interest includes nano-structured materials for energy applications, and thermo-degradation of solid waste materials. She also works on oscillatory chemical reactions and pattern formation in reaction diffusion system.  

Preface 6
Acknowledgments 7
Contents 8
About the Authors 10
Abbreviations 12
Abstract 13
1 Introduction 15
1.1 Non-linear Chemical Dynamics 16
1.2 Oscillatory Chemical Reaction 16
1.3 Physical Criteria of Chemical Oscillations 17
1.4 General Non-equilibrium Thermodynamics 18
1.5 Non-equilibrium Thermodynamics of Oscillatory Chemical Reaction 18
1.6 Types of Chemical Oscillators 20
1.6.1 Homogeneous Oscillations 20
1.6.2 Heterogeneous Oscillations 21
1.6.3 Thermochemical Oscillations 21
1.6.4 Electrochemical Oscillations 21
1.7 Representative Oscillators in Chemical Systems 22
1.7.1 Oscillating Model of Lotka–Volterra 22
1.7.2 Brusselator Model of Oscillating Chemical Reactions 23
1.7.3 Oregonator Model of Oscillating Chemical Reactions 23
1.8 Belousov–Zhabotinsky (BZ) Reaction 24
1.8.1 Discovery of BZ Reaction 24
1.8.2 Oscillatory Behavior in the BZ Reaction 26
1.8.3 Mechanism of BZ Reaction 26
1.8.3.1 The Chemistry of BZ Reaction 26
1.8.4 Methodology and Analytical Techniques 29
1.8.5 Conditions and Factors Affecting the Belousov–Zhabotinsky Reaction 29
1.8.5.1 Chemical Components 29
1.8.5.2 Thermodynamic and Kinetic Consideration 30
1.9 Chemical Wave and Pattern 31
1.9.1 Pattern in Nature 31
1.9.2 Traveling Wave in RD System 32
1.9.3 Stationary Turing Structures 32
1.9.4 Traveling Wave 32
1.9.5 Turing Pattern 33
1.10 Microemulsions 35
1.10.1 Applications of Microemulsion 35
1.10.2 The BZ–AOT System 36
1.11 Universality of Self-organization in Natural Science 36
1.12 Self-organization in Oscillatory Belousov–Zhabotinsky Reaction 38
1.13 Self-organization in Material Science 39
1.14 Applications of Self-organization in Materials Science 41
1.15 Oscillations and Self-organization in Material Science 41
1.16 Non-equilibrium Crystallization Phenomena 42
1.16.1 Dendritic Crystal Growth 43
1.16.2 Diffusion-Limited Aggregation-Like Crystal Growths 45
1.16.3 Growth of Spherulitic Crystal Patterns 46
1.17 Significance of the Research Work 48
1.18 Scope and Objectives of the Research Work 49
References 54
2 Growth and Formation of Diffusion-Limited-Aggregation Crystal Pattern 61
2.1 Introduction 61
2.2 Colloidal State and Solid-Phase Nucleation 63
2.3 Structural Determination of DLA Crystal Patterns 64
References 66
3 Growth and Form of Spherulitic Crystal Pattern 67
3.1 Introduction 67
3.2 Development of Spatial Pattern Formation 67
3.3 Structural Determination of Nanostructured Spherulite Crystal Pattern 71
References 74
4 Summary of the Research Work 75
5 Future Prospects 77
About the Book 79