Journal
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF THERMOPHYSICS
Volume 34, Issue 7, Pages 1229-1238Publisher
SPRINGER/PLENUM PUBLISHERS
DOI: 10.1007/s10765-013-1464-5
Keywords
Lost work; Non-equilibrium thermodynamics; Self-assembly
Funding
- COST Action [CM1101]
- Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO)
- Direccion General de Investigacion (Spain) [FIS 2008-04386]
- DURSI [2009SGR-634]
- Generalitat de Catalunya under program Icrea Academia
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A general thermodynamic analysis is given of dissipative self-assembly (DSA). Subsequently, the analysis is used to quantify the lost work in a recently published chemical realization of DSA (Boekhoven et al., Angew Chem Int Ed 49:4825, 2010) where a formation reaction produces the monomers that subsequently self-assemble and are finally annihilated by means of a destruction reaction. For this example, the work lost in self-assembly itself is found to be negligibly small compared to the work lost in the reactions driving the non-spontaneous formation reaction and the kinetically hindered destruction reaction.
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