Experimental observation of dynamical behaviors of four, five and six oscillators in rings and nine oscillators in a branched network

Abstract Cation-exchange beads loaded with ferroin were immersed in the Belousov-Zabotinsky reaction mixture and used as chemical oscillators. Four, five and six chemical oscillators were spatially distributed in rings. Coupling among the oscillators was due to mass diffusion. Spontaneous switching between two out-of-phase modes was observed in the ring oscillator systems. In the case of ring with three or four oscillators, transient extinction of oscillations was also observed. In addition, dynamical behaviors of a branched network with nine oscillators were reported.