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One of the most intriguing aspects of the complex dynamics that govern natural phenomena is perhaps the occurrence of instabilities and symmetry breakings leading to the formation of coherent spatio-temporal structures on macroscopic scales. It is clear now that when a physico-chemical system is maintained in far-fromthermal equilibrium by the application of external constraints, it may go through a succession of instabilities that may induce various types of spatio-temporal organization. Hence, understanding the origin of spatio-temporal order in open systems far from thermal equilibrium - and understanding the selection mechanisms of the spatial structures and their symmetries - is now a major theme of theoretical and experimental research. Furthermore, spatio-temporal organization now appears to be related to technological problems in physics, chemistry, nonlinear optics, and materials science.
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Walgraef, D. (1997). Introduction. In: Spatio-Temporal Pattern Formation. Partially Ordered Systems. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-1850-0_1
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