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One may also observe a transition to a type of defect-mediated turbulence in this Turing system (see figure C3.6.12 (b). Here the defects divide the system into domains of spots and stripes. The defects move erratically and lead to a turbulent state characterized by exponential decay of correlations [59]. Turing bifurcations can interact with the Hopf bifurcations discussed above to give rise to very complicated spatio-temporal patterns [63, 64]. 

PPys synthesized by both oxidative routes are also subject to coupling defects, which drastically reduce sought after properties. To circumvent this problem, transition metal-mediated polymerizations have been explored. Once again, the synthetic inflexibility of the pyrrole moiety has proven to be a formidable obstacle in obtaining such materials. The Stille coupling scheme [12], shown in Scheme 60, has been used to prepare a BOC-substitued PPy 63 with the protecting group subsequently removed by thermolytic treatment to yield unsubstitut-... 

Q. Ouyang, H. L. Swinney, and G. Li. Transition from spirals to defect-mediated turbulence driven by a doppler instability. Phys. Rev. Lett., 84 1047-1050, 2000. 

The defect-mediated mechanisms have desorption from the dihydride as a final step. Consequently, they all predict that the transition state for desorption is only a few (3-5) kilocalories per mole above the product state. This is consistent with the observation that product H2 has little excess energy. On the other hand, the low excess energy of the transition state over the desorbed state means that the defect-mediated mechanisms have corresponding low barriers to adsorption. At the time these mechanisms were proposed, there were no measurements of the activation energy to adsorption. If the more recent evidence [41, 73] that adsorption has a high activation barrier is confirmed, these models must be ruled out or at least substantially modified. 

The disadvantages of this method are that the degree of polymerisation is low, and the high level of defects produced due to coupling other than at the 2- and 7-positions. As a result this method is generally not used to make PFs. A recent exception is the synthesis of the polymer 86 with a cyanoalkyl substituent (Scheme 39) [170]. Here, transition-metal-mediated coupHng methods such as Suzuki or Yamamoto polycondensation could not be used as the nitrile deactivates the metal catalysts by binding to the metaL... 

Any defect-mediated relaxation or transition entails two phenomena the formation of a defect within the lattice and the propagation of this defect through the lattice. To confirm the specific dielectric behavior of the a-PVDF chain due to the inversion defects, Clark et al. computed the energy required to create a defect in a single chain. The calculated value was to the tune of 9 kcal/mol [76]. Such a value is clearly higher than the activation free energy computed by Miyamoto et al., that was less than 1 kcal/mol [77]. Despite the fact that both energies cannot be strictly compared, Clark et al. concluded that these defects cannot explain the particular dielectric behavior observed for a-PVDF. 

But no other field in condensed matter physics has shown such a rich variety of continuous or weakly first-order phase transitions than liquid crystals order parameters of various symmetries, anisotropic scaling behaviors, coupled order parameters, multicritical points, wide critical domains, defect mediated transitions, spaces of low dimensionality, multiply reentrant topologies are currently found in liquid crystals, at easily accessible temperatures. Beside their famous technical applications in optics... 

Further experiments on two layer films clearly show a sharp anomaly in the heat capacity behavior, suggesting that the SmBhex-SmA transition is not well described by the theory of defect-mediated... 

The study of stacked hexatics has yielded a complete classification of the large variety of thermotropic liquid crystal phases. It has also presented a single experiment which yields a simultaneous measurement of many crossover anisotropy exponents, previously obtained from separate complex experiments. It is also an excellent system to reveal dimensional crossover and the interplay between two- and three-dimensional physics. For very thin layers, the stacked hexatic layers can be used to extract the hexatic stiffness, or Frank constant, and thus test predictions of defect mediated transition theories. 

Theoretical studies of defect-mediated turbulence in two-dimensional systems have generally followed two approaches. One starts with local oscillators that couple through a diffusion process [36] another starts from a stationary patterned state [49] (see also the discussion of [10]). Both approaches lead to a turbulent state. However, our data do not distinguish in an obvious way between these two approaches. We do not observe any hint of global oscillations in the neighborhood of the transition from hexagons or stripes to turbulence, as would be expected in the first hypothesis. Nor do we observe any indication of a spatially biperiodic pattern, as would be expected in the second hypothesis. More experiments and analyses are needed to characterize and understand the mechanism of chemical turbulence. 

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