General Readings

An introduction to and overview of the field of nonlinear chemical dynamics from our point of view may be found at the following references:

Essential references:

• I. R. Epstein, K. Kustin, P. De Kepper and M. Orbán, "Oscillating Chemical Reactions," Sci. Amer. 248(3), 112-123 (1983).

• I. R. Epstein, "Patterns in Time and Space - Generated by Chemistry," Chem. Eng. News. (Special Report) 65(13), 24-36 (1987).

• A. M. Zhabotinsky, "A History of Chemical Oscillations and Waves" Chaos, 1, 379-386 (1991). 

• I. R. Epstein and K. Showalter, "Nonlinear Chemical Dynamics: Oscillations, Patterns and Chaos," J. Phys. Chem. 100, 13132-13147 (1996). I. R.Epstein and K. Showalter, "Nonlinear Chemical Dynamics: Oscillations, Patterns and Chaos," J. Phys. Chem. 100, 13132-13147 (1996). 

• I. R. Epstein and J. A. Pojman, Introduction to Nonlinear Chemical Dynamics. Oscillations, Waves, Patterns and Chaos, Oxford University Press, New York, 1998, 392 pp.

Additional readings:

• I. R. Epstein and K. Kustin, "Design of Inorganic Chemical Oscillators," Structure and Bonding 56, 1-33 (1984).

• I. R. Epstein and M. Orbán, "Halogen-Based Oscillators in a Flow Reactor," in Oscillations and Traveling Waves in Chemical Systems, R. J. Field and  M. Burger, eds., Wiley, New York, 1985, pp. 257-286.

• I. R. Epstein, "Pendulums in the Test Tube," in 1986 Yearbook of Science and the Future, Encyclopedia Britannica, Chicago, 1985, pp. 142-159.

• I. R. Epstein, "Chemical Chaos," Chem. & Ind. 157-162 (1991).

• I. Lengyel and I. R. Epstein, "The Chemistry behind the First Experimental Examples of Turing Patterns," in Chemical Waves and Patterns, R. Kapral and K. Showalter, eds., Kluwer, Dordrecht, Holland, 1995, pp. 297-322.

• I. R. Epstein, "The Consequences of Imperfect Mixing in Autocatalytic Chemical and Biological Systems," Nature 374, 321-327 (1995). 

• F. Sagués and I. R. Epstein, “Nonlinear Chemical Dynamics,” Dalton Trans. 1201-1217 (2003) (cover article).