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Reaction–Diffusion Process for Hydrogels with a Tailored Layer Structure

  • Yongliang Wang,
  • Yaxin Xu,
  • Yunfei Wang,
  • Baoqiang Li and ,
  • Chunfeng Wang,
  • Zhidong Han and
  • Ling Weng
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

30 June 2023

The architecture of hydrogel composites results in not only synergistic property enhancement but also superior functionality. The reaction–diffusion (RD) process is acommon phenomenon throughout nature which induced ordered structure on a lengt...

(This article belongs to the Topic Advances in Biomass Conversion)
  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
2,380 Views
12 Pages

26 November 2020

In this paper we propose and compare two methods to optimize the numerical computations for the diffusion term in a nonlocal formulation for a reaction-diffusion equation. The diffusion term is particularly computationally intensive due to the integr...

(This article belongs to the Section C1: Difference and Differential Equations)
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  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,819 Views
9 Pages

Synthesis of Ce-Based RE2Fe14B by Solid-State Reaction and Reduction-Diffusion Process

  • Sunwoo Lee,
  • Kanghyuk Lee,
  • Young-Min Kang,
  • Jung-Woo Lee and ,
  • Jihoon Park,
  • Sang-Im Yoo and
  • Chan Park
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

2 December 2024

Rare-earth permanent magnets, such as Nd2Fe14B, have been widely used in electric vehicle and wind turbine motors due to their high anisotropy field (Ha), saturation magnetization (Ms) and coercivity (Hc). Cerium (Ce) has gained attention as a potent...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
6,364 Views
14 Pages

27 February 2015

General Purpose (use of) Graphics Processing Units (GPGPU) is a promising technology for simulation upscaling; in particular for bottom–up modelling approaches seeking to translate micro-scale system processes to macro-scale properties. Many existing...

(This article belongs to the Section Computational Biology)
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  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,458 Views
19 Pages

30 June 2024

A qualitative study for a second-order boundary value problem with local or nonlocal diffusion and a cubic nonlinear reaction term, endowed with in-homogeneous Cauchy–Neumann (Robin) boundary conditions, is addressed in the present paper. Provi...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Mathematical Modeling in Industrial Engineering and Electrical Engineering, 2nd Edition)
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  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,148 Views
34 Pages

In this article, we analyze a category of time-fractional variable-order reaction-diffusion equations coupled in the Caputo sense that are created with the modeling of complicated biological and chemical processes. Furthermore, it is shown that the s...

(This article belongs to the Section General Mathematics, Analysis)
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  • Open Access
561 Views
22 Pages

Water-Based Perovskite Solar Cells: Precursor Chemistry, Reaction–Diffusion Kinetics, Processing Strategies, and Device Performance

  • Zhongjun Dai,
  • Mengnan Li,
  • Yulin Zhang,
  • Xiaofeng He and ,
  • Jiasheng Chen,
  • Yu Jiao and
  • Qunliang Song
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

4 September 2026

Water-based perovskite solar cells (W-PSCs) provide a promising route toward reducing the use of hazardous organic solvents during perovskite fabrication. However, their development remains limited by sluggish precursor conversion, incomplete phase t...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Nanomaterials for Perovskite Solar Cells and Optoelectronic Devices)
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  • Open Access
465 Views
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7 July 2026

The exact time–space correlation function of the 1D Glauber–Ising model, quenched to temperature T=0 and on a semi-open lattice of finite size N, is obtained. This also enables deducing the exact empty-interval probability of the dual 1D...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Ising Model—100 Years Old and Still Attractive)
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  • Open Access
356 Views
15 Pages

11 August 2026

Metal atoms or ions originating from interconnects, electrodes, or diffusion-barrier layers can migrate into oxide dielectrics during thermal annealing, causing insulation degradation, leakage-path formation, capacitance variation, and interfacial re...

(This article belongs to the Section Semiconductor Devices)
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  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,542 Views
11 Pages

6 August 2021

Higher order fractional differential equations are important tools to deal with precise models of materials with hereditary and memory effects. Moreover, fractional differential inequalities are useful to establish the properties of solutions of diff...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Fractional Differential Equations and Control Problems)
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  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,691 Views
14 Pages

10 March 2021

This manuscript addresses a new multivariate generalized predictive control strategy using the least squares support vector machine for parabolic distributed parameter systems. First, a set of proper orthogonal decomposition-based spatial basis funct...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Symmetry in Optimization and Control with Real World Applications)
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  • Open Access
24 Citations
4,285 Views
13 Pages

Microstructure of In-Situ Friction Stir Processed Al-Cu Transition Zone

  • Anna Zykova,
  • Andrey Chumaevskii,
  • Anastasia Gusarova,
  • Tatiana Kalashnikova and ,
  • Sergei Fortuna,
  • Nickolai Savchenko,
  • Evgeny Kolubaev and
  • Sergei Tarasov
  • + 3 authors+ 0 author

18 June 2020

The majority of literature sources dedicated to dissimilar Al-Cu friction stir welding testifies to the formation of intermetallic compounds (IMC) according to diffusion-controlled reactions, i.e., without liquation on the Al/Cu interfaces. Fewer sou...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Casting and Solidification of Light Alloys)
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  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,396 Views
14 Pages

Corpus Callosum Microstructural Tract Integrity Relates to Longer Emotion Recognition Reaction Time in People with Schizophrenia

  • Tom Burke,
  • Christina Gleeson,
  • Laurena Holleran,
  • David Mothersill and ,
  • Jessica Holland,
  • Laura Costello,
  • Ruán Kane,
  • Declan P. McKernan,
  • Derek W. Morris and
  • Gary Donohoe
  • + 9 authors+ 4 authors

8 September 2022

Objective: Schizophrenia is a complex functionally debilitating neurodevelopmental disorder, with associated social cognitive impairment. Corpus Callosum (CC) white matter tracts deficits are reported for people with schizophrenia; however, few studi...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Social Cognition across Healthy and Neuropsychiatric Conditions)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,095 Views
35 Pages

5 April 2023

Since the time of Buckingham in 1914, dimensional analysis and similarity arguments based on dimensionless groups have served as powerful tools for the analysis of systems in all branches of science and engineering. Dimensionless groups are generally...

(This article belongs to the Section Multidisciplinary Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
25 Citations
5,531 Views
13 Pages

Time Fractional Fisher–KPP and Fitzhugh–Nagumo Equations

  • Christopher N. Angstmann and
  • Bruce I. Henry

16 September 2020

A standard reaction–diffusion equation consists of two additive terms, a diffusion term and a reaction rate term. The latter term is obtained directly from a reaction rate equation which is itself derived from known reaction kinetics, together with m...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Fractional Calculus and the Future of Science)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
5,198 Views
15 Pages

Accelerating the Finite-Element Method for Reaction-Diffusion Simulations on GPUs with CUDA

  • Hedi Sellami,
  • Leo Cazenille,
  • Teruo Fujii,
  • Masami Hagiya and ,
  • Nathanael Aubert-Kato and
  • Anthony J. Genot
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

22 September 2020

DNA nanotechnology offers a fine control over biochemistry by programming chemical reactions in DNA templates. Coupled to microfluidics, it has enabled DNA-based reaction-diffusion microsystems with advanced spatio-temporal dynamics such as traveling...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Recent Advances of Molecular Machines and Molecular Robots)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,705 Views
14 Pages

19 August 2021

The mathematical model of diffusion in powder oxide catalysts during the process of temperature programmed oxygen isotopic exchange is proposed. The diffusion is considered together with the homogeneous and heterogeneous oxygen isotopic exchange proc...

(This article belongs to the Collection Feature Papers in Chemistry)
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,701 Views
14 Pages

In this paper, we study a fractional Brusselator reaction–diffusion model with the help of the residual power series transform method. Specific reaction–diffusion chemical processes are modeled by applying the fractional Brusselator react...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Numerical and Exact Methods for Nonlinear Differential Equations and Applications in Physics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,463 Views
28 Pages

The study considers a nonlinear multi-parameter reaction–diffusion system of two Lotka–Volterra-type equations with several delays. It treats both cases of different diffusion coefficients and identical diffusion coefficients. The study d...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Partial Differential and Functional Differential Equations: Exact Solutions, Reductions, Symmetries, and Applications)
  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
1,369 Views
19 Pages

9 May 2025

Reaction–diffusion equations can model complex systems where randomness plays a role, capturing the interaction between diffusion processes and random fluctuations. The Kolmogorov equations associated with these systems play an important role i...

  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
5,011 Views
19 Pages

21 January 2022

This study presents two novel methods for in situ characterization of the reaction-diffusion process during the co-curing of a polyetherimide thermoplastic interlayer with an epoxy-amine thermoset. The first method was based on hot stage experiments...

(This article belongs to the Section Polymer Analysis and Characterization)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,550 Views
24 Pages

Field, Laboratory and Modeling Evidence for Strong Attenuation of a Cr(VI) Plume in a Mudstone Aquifer Due to Matrix Diffusion and Reaction Processes

  • Steven Chapman,
  • Beth Parker,
  • Tom Al,
  • Richard Wilkin and ,
  • Diana Cutt,
  • Katherine Mishkin and
  • Shane Nelson
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

This study uses a combination of conventional and high resolution field and laboratory methods to investigate processes causing attenuation of a hexavalent chromium (Cr(VI)) plume in sedimentary bedrock at a former industrial facility. Groundwater pl...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Redox Processes and Characterization of Contaminated Soil, Groundwater, and Aquifer Sediments)
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  • Open Access
2 Citations
855 Views
16 Pages

On the Stability of Incommensurate Fractional-Order Reaction–Diffusion Systems: The Glycolyse Model

  • Omar Kahouli,
  • Amel Hioual,
  • Adel Ouannas,
  • Lilia El Amraoui and
  • Mohamed Ayari

In this paper, we study the local stability of an incommensurate fractional reaction–diffusion glycolysis model. The glycolysis process, fundamental to cellular metabolism, exhibits complex dynamical behaviors when formulated as a nonlinear rea...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Fractional Order Modelling of Dynamical Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
3,217 Views
16 Pages

11 June 2020

The paper deals with a system of two nonlinear second-order parabolic equations. Similar systems, also known as reaction-diffusion systems, describe different chemical processes. In particular, two unknown functions can represent concentrations of ef...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Solvability of Nonlinear Equations with Parameters: Branching, Regularization, Group Symmetry and Solutions Blow-Up)
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,325 Views
18 Pages

Numerical Simulation of Non-Linear Models of Reaction—Diffusion for a DGT Sensor

  • Joan Cecilia Averós,
  • Jaume Puy Llorens and
  • Ramiro Uribe-Kaffure

20 April 2020

In this work, we present a novel strategy for the numerical solution of a coupled system of partial differential equations that describe reaction–diffusion processes of a mixture of metals and ligands that can be absorbed by a sensor or a micro...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
4,533 Views
19 Pages

18 October 2018

In this work, we consider extended irreversible thermodynamics in assuming that the entropy density is a function of both common thermodynamic variables and their higher-order time derivatives. An expression for entropy production, and the linear phe...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Entropy: From Physics to Information Sciences and Geometry)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,843 Views
14 Pages

Results for a Control Problem for a SIS Epidemic Reaction–Diffusion Model

  • Aníbal Coronel,
  • Fernando Huancas,
  • Esperanza Lozada and
  • Marko Rojas-Medar

8 June 2023

This article is focused on investigating the mathematical model calibration of a reaction–diffusion system arising in the mathematical model of the spread of an epidemic in a society. We consider that the total population is divided into two classes...

(This article belongs to the Section B: Mathematics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,796 Views
17 Pages

14 January 2022

This work fabricated a double hollow structural component of Mg-8.3Gd-2.9Y-0.8Zn-0.2Zr alloy by superplastic forming (SPF) and reaction-diffusion bonding (RDB). The superplastic characteristic and mechanical properties of Mg-8.3Gd-2.9Y-0.8Zn-0.2Zr al...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Metal Forming—Hot Forming Technologies of Light Alloy Tubes and Sheets)
  • Article
  • Open Access
30 Citations
1,909 Views
14 Pages

Synchronization of Fractional Partial Difference Equations via Linear Methods

  • Ibraheem Abu Falahah,
  • Amel Hioual,
  • Mowafaq Omar Al-Qadri,
  • Yazan Alaya AL-Khassawneh and ,
  • Abdallah Al-Husban,
  • Tareq Hamadneh and
  • Adel Ouannas
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

27 July 2023

Discrete fractional models with reaction-diffusion have gained significance in the scientific field in recent years, not only due to the need for numerical simulation but also due to the stated biological processes. In this paper, we investigate the...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Difference Equations)
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  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,818 Views
13 Pages

28 April 2024

This paper uses the attached flow method for solving nonlinear second-order differential equations of the reaction–diffusion type. The key steps of the method consist of the following: (i) reducing the differentiability order by defining the fi...

(This article belongs to the Topic Nonlinear Phenomena, Chaos, Control and Applications to Engineering and Science and Experimental Aspects of Complex Systems)
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  • Open Access
12 Citations
2,913 Views
23 Pages

21 April 2023

Two main topics are addressed in the present paper, first, a rigorous qualitative study of a second-order reaction–diffusion problem with non-linear diffusion and cubic-type reactions, as well as inhomogeneous dynamic boundary conditions. Under...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Recent Advances in Fractional Calculus)
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  • Open Access
278 Views
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28 September 2026

Tungsten leaching kinetics were investigated for three concentrates of Spanish origin containing wolframite, scheelite and mixed mineral phases under their respective optimum processing conditions. Experimental conversion data were analysed using cla...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Metal Leaching and Recovery)
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  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,233 Views
15 Pages

Non-Markovian Diffusion and Adsorption–Desorption Dynamics: Analytical and Numerical Results

  • Derik W. Gryczak,
  • Ervin K. Lenzi,
  • Michely P. Rosseto,
  • Luiz R. Evangelista and
  • Rafael S. Zola

27 March 2024

The interplay of diffusion with phenomena like stochastic adsorption–desorption, absorption, and reaction–diffusion is essential for life and manifests in diverse natural contexts. Many factors must be considered, including geometry, dime...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Random Walks and Stochastic Processes in Complex Systems: From Physics to Socio-Economic Phenomena)
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  • Open Access
21 Citations
19,080 Views
35 Pages

10 June 2021

This review describes the subjective experience of visual aura in migraine, outlines theoretical models of this phenomenon, and explores how these may be linked to neurochemical, electrophysiological, and psychophysical differences in sensory process...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue The Visual Aura in Migraine)
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  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,748 Views
25 Pages

3 February 2026

Reaction–diffusion equations provide a fundamental framework for modelling spatial population dynamics and invasion processes in mathematical biology. Among these, Fisher’s equation combines diffusion with logistic growth to describe the...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Symmetry in Integrable Systems and Soliton Theories)
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  • Open Access
28 Citations
4,658 Views
19 Pages

Mathematical Modelling of the Spatial Distribution of a COVID-19 Outbreak with Vaccination Using Diffusion Equation

  • Brice Kammegne,
  • Kayode Oshinubi,
  • Oluwatosin Babasola,
  • Olumuyiwa James Peter and ,
  • Olumide Babatope Longe,
  • Roseline Bosede Ogunrinde,
  • Emmanuel Olurotimi Titiloye,
  • Roseline Toyin Abah and
  • Jacques Demongeot
  • + 4 authors+ 0 author

The formulation of mathematical models using differential equations has become crucial in predicting the evolution of viral diseases in a population in order to take preventive and curative measures. In December 2019, a novel variety of Coronavirus (...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Infectious Diseases and Vaccine Technology Research)
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  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,321 Views
22 Pages

3 January 2025

Approximate analytical solutions to doubly degenerate reaction-diffusion models pertinent to population dynamics and chemical kinetics have been developed. The double integral-balance method applied to preliminary transformed models and by a direct i...

(This article belongs to the Section B: Mathematics)
  • Review
  • Open Access
17 Citations
11,363 Views
45 Pages

Thermodynamics and Fluctuations Far From Equilibrium

  • John Ross and
  • Alejandro Fernández Villaverde

21 October 2010

We review a coherent mesoscopic presentation of thermodynamics and fluctuations far from and near equilibrium, applicable to chemical reactions, energy transfer and transport processes, and electrochemical systems. Both uniform and spatially dependen...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Nonequilibrium Thermodynamics)
  • Feature Paper
  • Review
  • Open Access
  • Best Paper Award
6 Citations
3,676 Views
15 Pages

30 May 2023

The debate about what causes the generation of form and structure in embryological development goes back to antiquity. Most recently, it has focused on the divergent views as to whether the generation of patterns and form in development is a largely...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Mathematical Modeling in Systems Biology)
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  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,226 Views
10 Pages

Chemotaxis Model for Drug Delivery Using Turing’s Instability and Non-Linear Diffusion

  • Mohammed Almijalli,
  • Moustafa Ibrahim,
  • Ali Saad and
  • Mazen Saad

28 May 2021

This paper is devoted to the study of the chemotaxis model for drug delivery purposes. The pattern formation for a volume-filling with nonlinear diffusive terms is investigated. The proposed mathematical model is governed by a reaction–diffusion syst...

(This article belongs to the Section Applied Biosciences and Bioengineering)
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  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,414 Views
18 Pages

24 August 2020

A stochastic reaction–diffusion model was developed to describe the binding of labeled monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) to CD4 receptors on the surface of T cells. The mAbs diffused to, adsorbed on, and underwent monovalent and bivalent binding to...

(This article belongs to the Section Molecular Biology)
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  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,135 Views
14 Pages

Model of Chronoamperometric Response towards Glucose Sensing by Arrays of Gold Nanostructures Obtained by Laser, Thermal and Wet Processes

  • Antonino Scandurra,
  • Valentina Iacono,
  • Stefano Boscarino,
  • Silvia Scalese and ,
  • Maria Grazia Grimaldi and
  • Francesco Ruffino
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

24 March 2023

Non-enzymatic electrochemical glucose sensors are of great importance in biomedical applications, for the realization of portable diabetic testing kits and continuous glucose monitoring systems. Nanostructured materials show a number of advantages in...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Laser-Matter Interaction for Nanostructuration and Characterization: From Fundamentals to Sensing and Energy Applications)
  • Review
  • Open Access
18 Citations
6,643 Views
23 Pages

Reaction–Diffusion Equations in Mathematical Models Arising in Epidemiology

  • Vasyl’ Davydovych,
  • Vasyl’ Dutka and
  • Roman Cherniha

7 November 2023

The review is devoted to an analysis of mathematical models used for describing epidemic processes. Our main focus is on the models that are based on partial differential equations (PDEs), especially those that were developed and used for the COVID-1...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Mathematical Modeling in Biology and Life Sciences)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,085 Views
15 Pages

23 October 2024

We studied the properties of a reaction front that forms in irreversible reaction–diffusion systems with concentration-dependent diffusivities during the synthesis of polymer brushes. A coarse-grained model of the polymerization process during the fo...

(This article belongs to the Section Polymer Physics and Theory)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
716 Views
31 Pages

23 January 2026

In this study, the nonlinear and non-monotonic behavior of amperometric bienzyme biosensors employing an enzymatic trigger reaction is investigated analytically and computationally using a two-compartment model comprising an enzymatic layer and an ou...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Electrochemical Sensors and Biosensors: Design, Development, and Applications)
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  • Open Access
766 Views
28 Pages

In this study, we developed a novel water quality model that integrated hydrodynamic, solute transport, and geochemical reactions processes. This model was built upon the open-source ELCIRC hydrodynamic model, the TVD-format solute transport model, a...

(This article belongs to the Section Marine Environmental Science)
  • Article
  • Open Access
957 Views
13 Pages

Phase-Field Simulation of Void Evolution Under Irradiation: A Reaction–Diffusion Model

  • Xiaoming Shi,
  • Zheng Wang,
  • Tianhao Gao,
  • Guoping Cao and ,
  • Zhuhong Liu,
  • Houbing Huang,
  • Xingqiao Ma and
  • Sanqiang Shi
  • + 3 authors+ 0 author

20 April 2026

We propose a reaction–diffusion phase-field model to simulate the microstructure evolution of voids in systems with low vacancy concentration under irradiation. In this model, void growth and shrinkage are governed by reactions between vacancie...

(This article belongs to the Section Inorganic Crystalline Materials)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
6,417 Views
27 Pages

13 August 2018

This paper studies the spatial joint evolution of cooperative behavior and a partially assortative matching institution that protects cooperators. We consider cooperation as characterized by a cultural trait transmitted via an endogenous socializatio...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Social Norms and Games)
  • Review
  • Open Access
163 Citations
16,767 Views
35 Pages

The Chemistry and Physics of Bayfol® HX Film Holographic Photopolymer

  • Friedrich-Karl Bruder,
  • Thomas Fäcke and
  • Thomas Rölle

26 September 2017

Holographic photopolymers are a new technology to create passive diffractive optical elements by a pure laser interference recording. In this review, we explain the chemistry concepts of light harvesting in an interference pattern and the subsequent...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Photo-Responsive Polymers)
  • Review
  • Open Access
7 Citations
8,150 Views
26 Pages

Percolation and Internet Science

  • Franco Bagnoli,
  • Emanuele Bellini,
  • Emanuele Massaro and
  • Raúl Rechtman

2 February 2019

Percolation, in its most general interpretation, refers to the “flow” of something (a physical agent, data or information) in a network, possibly accompanied by some nonlinear dynamical processes on the network nodes (sometimes denoted re...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue 10th Anniversary Feature Papers)

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