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Antispirals

This movie shows an antispiral in a BZ-AOT microemulsion. Note how the spiral moves inward toward its center. In oscillating reactions in simple aqueous solution, spirals always move outward from their center. For more details, see:


V. K. Vanag and I. R. Epstein, “Inwardly Rotating Spiral Waves in a Reaction-Diffusion System,” Science 294, 835-837 (2001).