Mesoscopic nonequilibrium thermodynamics gives the same thermodynamic basis to butler-volmer and nernst equations
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Mesoscopic nonequilibrium thermodynamics is applied to derive the Butler-Volmer equation, or the stationary state nonlinear relation between the electric current density and the overpotential of an electrode surface. The result is found to be valid for an isothermal electrode with reaction-controlled charge transfer and with equilibrium for the reactant between the adjacent bulk phase and the surface.
Publication Name: Journal of Physical Chemistry B
Subject: Chemicals, plastics and rubber industries
ISSN: 1520-6106
Year: 2003
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Thermodynamics for single-molecule stretching experiments
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The construction of nonequilibrium thermodynamics for systems too small to be considered thermodynamically in a traditional sense is demonstrated. The validity of nonequibilirium thermodynamics relations is discussed and the nature of dissipation in small systems through the entropy production rate is analyzed.
Publication Name: Journal of Physical Chemistry B
Subject: Chemicals, plastics and rubber industries
ISSN: 1520-6106
Year: 2006
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Unifying thermodynamic and kinetic descriptions of single-molecule processes: RNA unfolding under tension
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RNA unfolding under tension was described by mesoscopic nonequilibrium thermodynamics theory. It was shown that when such a mesoscopic description is applied to RNA unfolding, the master equation proposed in a kinetic description can be reproduced.
Publication Name: Journal of Physical Chemistry B
Subject: Chemicals, plastics and rubber industries
ISSN: 1520-6106
Year: 2007
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