| Reference : Extracting chemical energy by growing disorder: efficiency at maximum power |
| Scientific journals : Article | |||
| Physical, chemical, mathematical & earth Sciences : Physics | |||
| http://hdl.handle.net/10993/11952 | |||
| Extracting chemical energy by growing disorder: efficiency at maximum power | |
| English | |
Esposito, Massimiliano  [Université Libre de Bruxelles - ULB > Center for Nonlinear Phenomena and Complex Systems,] | |
| Lindenberg, Katja [University of California, San Diego > Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry and BioCircuits Institute] | |
| Van den Broeck, Christian [Universiteit Hasselt - UH] | |
| 2010 | |
| Journal of Statistical Mechanics : Theory and Experiment | |
| Institute of Physics Publishing | |
| Yes (verified by ORBilu) | |
| International | |
| 1742-5468 | |
| [en] kinetic growth processes (theory) ; stochastic particle dynamics | |
| [en] We consider the efficiency of chemical energy extraction from the
environment by the growth of a copolymer made of two constituent units in the entropy-driven regime. We show that the thermodynamic nonlinearity associated with the information processing aspect is responsible for a branching of the system properties such as power, speed of growth, entropy production, and efficiency, with varying affinity. The standard linear thermodynamics argument which predicts an efficiency of 1/2 at maximum power is inappropriate because the regime of maximum power is located either outside of the linear regime or on a separate bifurcated branch, and because the usual thermodynamic force is not the natural variable for this optimization. | |
| http://hdl.handle.net/10993/11952 | |
| 10.1088/1742-5468/2010/01/p01008 | |
| <Go to ISI>://WOS:000274266600016 | |
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