Chemomechanical Instabilities in Responsive Materials

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiii

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2. From Sustained Oscillations to Stationary Reaction-Diffusion Patterns

   • P. De Kepper, J. Boissonade, I. Szalai

   Pages 1-37

3. Mechanochemical Instabilities in Active Gels

   • Ryo Yoshida

   Pages 39-56

4. An Excursion in Theoretical Non Linear Chemistry: From Oscillations to Turing Patterns

   • P. Borckmans, S. Métens

   Pages 57-94

5. Chemomechanics: Oscillatory Dynamics in Chemoresponsive Gels

   • J. Boissonade, P. De Kepper

   Pages 95-116

6. Structural Approaches on the Toughness in Double Network Hydrogels

   • Taiki Tominaga, Yoshihito Osada, Jian Ping Gong

   Pages 117-138

7. Chemomechanical Dynamics of Responsive Gels

   • Stéphane Métens, Sébastien Villain, Pierre Borckmans

   Pages 139-173

8. Autonomous Rhythmic Drug Delivery Systems Based on Chemical and Biochemomechanical Oscillators

   • Ronald A. Siegel

   Pages 175-201

9. Structure Formation and Nonlinear Dynamics in Polyelectrolyte Responsive Gels

   • A. R. Khokhlov, I. Yu. Konotop, I. R. Nasimova, N. G. Rambidi

   Pages 203-219

10. Nonlinear Chemical Dynamics In Synthetic Polymer Systems

    • John A. Pojman

    Pages 221-240

11. Internal Stress as a Link Between Macroscale and Mesoscale Mechanics

    • Ken Sekimoto

    Pages 241-250

12. On Some Passive and Active Motion in Biology

    • Chaouqi Misbah

    Pages 251-273

The present volume includes most of the material of the invited lectures delivered at the NATO Advanced Study Institute “Morphogenesis through the interplay of nonlinear chemical instabilities and elastic active media” held from 2th to 14th July 2007 at the Institut d’Etudes Scientifiques de Cargèse (http://www.iesc.univ-corse.fr/), in Corsica (France). This traditional place to organize Summer Schools and Workshops in a well equipped secluded location at the border of the Mediterranean sea has, over many years now, earned an increasing deserved reputation. Non-linear dynamics of non equilibrium systems has worked its way into a great number of fields and plays a key role in the understanding of se- organization and emergence phenomena in domains as diverse as chemical reactors, laser physics, fluid dynamics, electronic devices and biological morphogenesis. In the latter case, the viscoelastic properties of tissues are also known to play a key role. The control and formulation of soft responsive or “smart” materials has been a fast growing field of material science, specially in the area of po- mer networks, due to their growing applications in bio-science, chemical sensors, intelligent microfluidic devices, … . Nature is an important p- vider of active materials whether at the level of tissues or at that of s- cellular structures. As a consequence, the fundamental understanding of the physical mechanisms at play in responsive materials also shines light in the understanding of biological artefacts.

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• mechanics
• nonlinear dynamics
• oscillatory reactions
• transduction of chemical ro mechanical energy

• Service de Chimie Physique et Biologie Théorique Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium

  P. Borckmans

• Centre de Recherche Paul Pascal Université de Bordeaux, France

  P. Kepper

• Chair of Physics of Polymers and Crystals Moscow State University, Russia

  A. R. Khokhlov

• Matière et Systèmes Complexes Université Paris 7 — Denis Diderot, France

  S. Métens

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