Main description:

Local and global spatial coupling mechanisms form the basis of transport processes that are of fundamental importance for the occurrence and the dynamic evolution of patterns on a mesoscopic and macroscopic scale. The present volume deals with these concepts and investigates applications in the fields of biophysics and chemistry.

Contents:

Pattern Formation in the Developing Visual Cortex.- The Molecular Motor Actin-Myosin on a Substrate.- Force and Motion Generation of Molecular Motors: A Generic Description.- Reaction-Diffusion Waves of Reversible Actin Filament Assembly Drive Cell Oscillations and Locomotion.- Cell Dynamics in Chemotaxis, Haptotaxis, and Under Shear Flow.- Chemotaxis and Aggregation in the Cellular Slime Mould.- Calcium Waves in Rat Cardiac Myocytes Underlie the Principles of Self-Organization in Excitable Media.- Inositol 1,4,5-Triphosphate Induced Calcium Waves.- Electrophoretic Mobility of Charged Spheres.- Complex Fluids Under Shear: Block Copolymers.- Coherent Intramolecular Dynamics in Populations of Allosteric Enzymes.- Routes to Chaos in the Peroxidase-Oxidase Reaction.- Determination of Fokker-Planck Equations from Experimental Data Sets of Complex Systems.- The Randomly Driven Ising Ferromagnet.- Wave Propagation in Excitable Media with Fast Inhibitor Diffusion.- Mechanisms of Spiral Breakup in Chemical and Biological Reaction-Diffusion Models.- Experimental Realization and Control of Chemical Turing-Like Patterns.- Reaction-Diffusion Patterns: From Observations in Halogene Chemistry to a Test for Implication in Mitosis.