What connection could possibly exist between the
stripes on tropical fish and crystal growth? The answer is the way
in which order emerges from randomness through Turing patterns,
according to what a research team led by Dr. Fuseya of the
University of Electro-Communications, Japan, has recently found.
After analyzing a mysterious striped pattern, they observed while
trying to grow a monoatomic layer of bismuth, they showed that
Turing patterns also exist at the nanoscale.