Long-range activation

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The short and long range activity coefficients are combined using equation (4.69). For the sake of uniformity the result is converted to the molality based form using the following relationship ... 

In the wake of the researches for oscillatory reactions more than a dozen pH-autoactivated reactions were shown to produce bistability when operated in a CSTR [57]. Theoretical calculations and experiments demonstrate that such systems readily give rise to spatial bistability when conducted in an OSFR. They would provide a large choice of reaction systems to test the chemomechanical instabilities theoretically described above. However, in our selection criteria, we have to take into account that many of these reactions can already exhibit kinetic oscillations over more or less wide ranges of feed parameters. Such complication can make it difficult to discriminate between kinetic and chemomechanic oscillatory instabilities. Furthermore, it has also been shown that in the case of proton-autoactivated system the natural faster diffusion of this species can lead to another source of oscillatory instability in an OSFR, the long range activation instability [58]. 

In the range of reactant concentrations experimentally explored, the reaction is very sluggish if the initial pH of the solution is above 7, whereas when pH < 6, it very rapidly drops to pH 2. When operated in a CSTR, the reaction exhibits steady-state bistability, with pH differences between branches up to ApH 8), and does not lead to kinetic oscillations. However, in an OSFR, it was shown to display a diffusion-driven oscillatory instability because of the long-range activation of the free protons. But this instabihty can be quenched by weakly buffering the system with a low-mobility proton-binding species [58]. This condition is straightforwardly... 

There has been much activity in the study of monolayer phases via the new optical, microscopic, and diffraction techniques described in the previous section. These experimental methods have elucidated the unit cell structure, bond orientational order and tilt in monolayer phases. Many of the condensed phases have been classified as mesophases having long-range correlational order and short-range translational order. A useful analogy between monolayer mesophases and die smectic mesophases in bulk liquid crystals aids in their characterization (see [182]). 

The situation for electrolyte solutions is more complex theory confimis the limiting expressions (originally from Debye-Htickel theory), but, because of the long-range interactions, the resulting equations are non-analytic rather than simple power series.) It is evident that electrolyte solutions are ideally dilute only at extremely low concentrations. Further details about these activity coefficients will be found in other articles. 

The current frontiers for the subject of non-equilibrium thennodynamics are rich and active. Two areas dommate interest non-linear effects and molecular bioenergetics. The linearization step used in the near equilibrium regime is inappropriate far from equilibrium. Progress with a microscopic kinetic theory [38] for non-linear fluctuation phenomena has been made. Carefiil experiments [39] confinn this theory. Non-equilibrium long range correlations play an important role in some of the light scattering effects in fluids in far from equilibrium states [38, 39]. 

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