Artificial molecular ratchets: tools enabling endergonic processes

T Sangchai, S Al Shehimy, E Penocchio… - Angewandte …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Non‐equilibrium chemical systems underpin multiple domains of contemporary interest,
including supramolecular chemistry, molecular machines, systems chemistry, prebiotic …

Energy and information flows in autonomous systems

J Ehrich, DA Sivak - Frontiers in Physics, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Multi-component molecular machines are ubiquitous in biology. We review recent progress
on describing their thermodynamic properties using autonomous bipartite Markovian …

Variance sum rule for entropy production

I Di Terlizzi, M Gironella, D Herraez-Aguilar, T Betz… - Science, 2024 - science.org
Entropy production is the hallmark of nonequilibrium physics, quantifying irreversibility,
dissipation, and the efficiency of energy transduction processes. Despite many efforts, its …

Circuit theory for chemical reaction networks

F Avanzini, N Freitas, M Esposito - Physical Review X, 2023 - APS
We lay the foundation of a circuit theory for chemical reaction networks. Chemical reactions
are grouped into chemical modules solely characterized by their current-concentration …

Effective estimation of entropy production with lacking data

M Baiesi, T Nishiyama, G Falasco - Communications Physics, 2024 - nature.com
Observing stochastic trajectories with rare transitions between states, practically
undetectable on time scales accessible to experiments, makes it impossible to directly …

Calcium oscillations optimize the energetic efficiency of mitochondrial metabolism

V Voorsluijs, F Avanzini, G Falasco, M Esposito… - Iscience, 2024 - cell.com
Energy transduction is central to living organisms, but the impact of enzyme regulation and
signaling on its thermodynamic efficiency is generally overlooked. Here, we analyze the …

A Nernst heat theorem for nonequilibrium jump processes

F Khodabandehlou, C Maes, K Netočný - The Journal of Chemical …, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
We discuss via general arguments and examples when and why the steady nonequilibrium
heat capacity vanishes with temperature. The framework is that of Markov jump processes …

Molecular-scale dissipative chemistry drives the formation of nanoscale assemblies and their macroscale transport

K Liu, AWP Blokhuis, SJ Dijt, J Wu, S Hamed… - Nature Chemistry, 2024 - nature.com
Fuelled chemical systems have considerable functional potential that remains largely
unexplored. Here we report an approach to transient amide bond formation and use it to …

Methods and conversations in (post) modern thermodynamics

F Avanzini, M Bilancioni, V Cavina… - SciPost Physics Lecture …, 2024 - scipost.org
Lecture notes after the doctoral school (Post) Modern Thermodynamics held at the
University of Luxembourg, December 2022, 5-7, covering and advancing continuous-time …

Elementary Flux Modes as CRN Gears for Free Energy Transduction

M Bilancioni, M Esposito - arxiv preprint arxiv:2405.17960, 2024 - arxiv.org
We demonstrate that, for a chemical reaction network (CRN) engaged in energy
transduction, its optimal operation from a thermodynamic efficiency standpoint is contingent …