Dissipative adaptation in driven self-assembly. England, J. L Nat. Nanotechnol., 10(11):919–923, November, 2015.
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In a collection of assembling particles that is allowed to reach thermal equilibrium, the energy of a given microscopic arrangement and the probability of observing the system in that arrangement obey a simple exponential relationship known as the Boltzmann distribution. Once the same thermally fluctuating particles are driven away from equilibrium by forces that do work on the system over time, however, it becomes significantly more challenging to relate the likelihood of a given outcome to familiar thermodynamic quantities. Nonetheless, it has long been appreciated that developing a sound and general understanding of the thermodynamics of such non-equilibrium scenarios could ultimately enable us to control and imitate the marvellous successes that living things achieve in driven self-assembly. Here, I suggest that such a theoretical understanding may at last be emerging, and trace its development from historic first steps to more recent discoveries. Focusing on these newer results, I propose that they imply a general thermodynamic mechanism for self-organization via dissipation of absorbed work that may be applicable in a broad class of driven many-body systems.
@article{england_dissipative_2015,
	title = {Dissipative adaptation in driven self-assembly},
	volume = {10},
	issn = {1748-3387},
	url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nnano.2015.250},
	doi = {10.1038/nnano.2015.250},
	abstract = {In a collection of assembling particles that is allowed to reach thermal
equilibrium, the energy of a given microscopic arrangement and the
probability of observing the system in that arrangement obey a simple
exponential relationship known as the Boltzmann distribution. Once the
same thermally fluctuating particles are driven away from equilibrium by
forces that do work on the system over time, however, it becomes
significantly more challenging to relate the likelihood of a given outcome
to familiar thermodynamic quantities. Nonetheless, it has long been
appreciated that developing a sound and general understanding of the
thermodynamics of such non-equilibrium scenarios could ultimately enable
us to control and imitate the marvellous successes that living things
achieve in driven self-assembly. Here, I suggest that such a theoretical
understanding may at last be emerging, and trace its development from
historic first steps to more recent discoveries. Focusing on these newer
results, I propose that they imply a general thermodynamic mechanism for
self-organization via dissipation of absorbed work that may be applicable
in a broad class of driven many-body systems.},
	number = {11},
	journal = {Nat. Nanotechnol.},
	author = {England, Jeremy L},
	month = nov,
	year = {2015},
	keywords = {Science/Origin of  life},
	pages = {919--923},
}

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