Abstract
Nonequilibrium localized structures of submicrometer and nanometer sizes, carrying the reaction, can spontaneously develop under reaction conditions on a catalytic surface. These self-organized microreactors emerge because of the coupling between the reaction and a structural phase transition in the substrate. The corresponding localized solutions are constructed using the singular perturbation approximation and reproduced in numerical simulations.
- Received 6 January 1999
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.83.1475
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