Reactions chlorite-tetrathionate

Boissonade etal. consider the chemoelastodynamics of responsive gels in Chapter 9. This chapter is devoted to the spontaneous generation of mechanical oscillations by a responsive gel immersed in a reactive medium away from equilibrium. Two important cases are considered. In the first case, the chemomechanical instability is mainly driven by a kinetic instabiUty leading to an oscillatory reaction. The approach is applied to the BZ reaction. The second case is a mechanical oscillatory instability that emerges from the cross-coupUng of a reaction-diffusion process and the volume or size responsiveness of the supporting material. In this case, there is no need for an oscillatory reaction. Bistable reactions, namely, the chlorite-tetrathionate (CT) and the bromate-sulfite (BS) reactions, were chosen... 

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