Nature Communications (Dec 2022)

Turing patterns with high-resolution formed without chemical reaction in thin-film solution of organic semiconductors

  • Zezhong Xiang,
  • Jin Li,
  • Peng You,
  • Linbo Han,
  • Mingxia Qiu,
  • Gengliang Chen,
  • Yu He,
  • Songqiang Liang,
  • Boyuan Xiang,
  • Yaorong Su,
  • Hongyu An,
  • Shunpu Li

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-35162-z
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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Regular patterns can form spontaneously in chemical reaction-diffusion systems under non-equilibrium conditions as proposed by Alan Turing. Here, the authors generate regular patterns in uphill-diffusion solution systems without a chemical reaction process through in-situ and ex-situ observations.