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Phys. Rev. E 47, R3003–R3006 (1993)

Control of chaos in an electrochemical cell

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P. Parmananda, P. Sherard, and R. W. Rollins
Condensed Matter and Surface Sciences Program, Department of Physics Astronomy, Ohio University, Athens, Ohio 45701-2979

H. D. Dewald
Department of Chemistry, Ohio University, Athens, Ohio 45701-2979

Received 14 December 1992; published in the issue dated May 1993

We report control of chemical chaos observed during the electrodissolution of a rotating copper disk in a sodium acetate–acetic acid buffer. An adaptation of a simple recursive proportional-feedback control strategy, generally applicable to systems well described by one-dimensional maps, was used to stablize the chaotic response of the system on an unstable period-1 orbit. The successive minima in the measured anodic current generated a return map that was used to characterize the dynamics, and the control algorithm prescribed small changes in the anodic potential to affect the control.

© 1993 The American Physical Society

URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevE.47.R3003
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevE.47.R3003
PACS:
05.45.+b, 87.10.+e