Toward the design principles of molecular machines

Abstract

Living things avoid equilibrium using molecular machines. Such microscopic soft-matter objects encounter relatively large friction and fluctuations. We discuss design principles for effective molecular machine operation in this unfamiliar context.

To be published in "Physics in Canada", vol. 73, issue 2 (2017)

References in corpus (5)

• The geometry of thermodynamic control
• The length of time's arrow
• Thermodynamic geometry of minimum-dissipation driven barrier crossing
• Allocating dissipation across a molecular machine cycle to maximize flux
• Effective dissipation: breaking time-reversal symmetry in driven microscopic energy transmission

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