Department of Chemistry
Brandeis University
Waltham, MA 02254-9110
Telephone: (617)736-2531
FAX: (617)736-2516
E-mail: zhabotinsky@binah.cc.brandeis.edu
Current Research Interests:
- Experimental study of chemical wave propagation and pattern formation
in nonuniform media which model catalytic layers in the industrial reactors,
and excitable biological and ecological systems.
- Mathematical modeling and computer simulation of pattern formation in chemical and biological reaction -diffusion systems.
Selected Publications
1. Zhabotinsky, A.M., "Periodic liquid phase reactions," Proc. Ac. Sci. USSR 157,392 (1964).
2. Zaikin, A.N. and Zhabotinsky, A.M., "Concentration wave propagation in two-dimensional liquid-phase self-oscillating system," Nature 225, 535 (1970).
3. Zhabotinsky,A.M.,and Zaikin,A.N., "Autowave processes in a distributed chemical system," J. Theor. Biol. 40, 45 (1973). 4. Zhabotinsky, A. M., Eager, M. D., and Epstein, I. R., "Refraction and reflection of chemical waves," Phys. Rev. Lett. 71, 1526 (1993).
5. Bugrim, A. E., Zhabotinsky, A. M. and Epstein, I. R., "Interference of Crossing Trigger Waves in Mutilayer Reaction-Diffusion Systems," Phys. Rev. Lett. 75, 1206 (1995).
6. Zhabotinsky, A. M., Dolnik, M. and Epstein, I. R., "Pattern Formation Arising from Wave Instability in a Simple Reaction-Diffusion System," J. Chem. Phys.103, 10306 (1995).
7. Kurin-Csörgei, K., Zhabotinsky, A. M., Orbán, M. and Epstein, I. R., "The bromate-1,4- cyclohexanedione-ferroin gas-free oscillating reaction. I. Basic features and crossing wave patterns in a reaction-diffusion system without gel," J. Phys. Chem. 100, 5393 (1996).
8. Dolnik, M., Zhabotinsky, A. M. and Epstein, I. R., "Modulated and Alternating Waves in a Reaction-Diffusion Model with Wave Instability," J. Chem. Soc., Faraday Trans., 92, 2919 (1996).
9. Rovinsky, A. B., Zhabotinsky, A. M. and Epstein, I. R., "Target Patterns Arising from the Short-Wave Instability in Near-Critical Regimes of Reaction-Diffusion Systems," Phys. Rev. E, 56 (To appear)
10. Bugrim, A. E., Zhabotinsky, A. M. and Epstein, I. R., "Transition from Abortive to Stable Calcium Waves in a Model with a Heterogeneous Spatial Distribution of Intracellular Ca2+- channels (Submitted)
Interference of chemical waves (Ref. 5). 
Crossing
chemical waves (Ref. 7).
Staircase crossing chemical waves (Ref. 7).
Transverse
waves born due to restricted spiral formation (Ref. 7).