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On mechanistically accessible copolymer sequences
Richard Golnik, Nicola Vassena, Alex Blokhuis
Structural observations in polymer chemistry are often rationalized through underlying mechanistic insights. The study of families of mechanisms - and the phenomenology and lawlike…
Emergent conserved quantities via irreversibility
Alex Blokhuis, Martijn van Kuppeveld, Daan van de Weem +1
Conserved quantities increasingly underpin the inference of physical models. Recently new conserved quantities have been found in this context, that currently lack an interpretatio…
Stoichiometric recipes for periodic oscillations in reaction networks
Alexander Blokhuis, Peter F. Stadler, Nicola Vassena
Oscillatory chemical reactions are functional components in a variety of biological contexts. In chemistry, the construction and identification of even rudimentary oscillators rema…
On data and dimension in chemistry -- irreversibility, concealment and emergent conservation laws
Alex Blokhuis, Martijn van Kuppeveld, Daan van de Weem +1
Chemical systems are interpreted through the species they contain and the reactions they may undergo, i.e., their chemical reaction network (CRN). In spite of their central importa…
The generality of transient compartmentalization and its associated error thresholds
Alex Blokhuis, Philippe Nghe, Luca Peliti +1
Can prelife proceed without cell division? A recently proposed mechanism suggests that transient compartmentalization could have preceded cell division in prebiotic scenarios. Here…
Reaction kinetics in open reactors and serial transfers between closed reactors
Alex Blokhuis, David Lacoste, Pierre Gaspard
Kinetic theory and thermodynamics of reaction networks are extended to the out-of-equilibrium dynamics of continuous-flow stirred tank reactors (CSTR) and serial transfers. On the…
Selection dynamics in transient compartmentalization
Alex Blokhuis, David Lacoste, Philippe Nghe +1
Transient compartments have been recently shown to be able to maintain functional replicators in the context of prebiotic studies. Motivated by this experiment, we show that a broa…
Length and sequence relaxation of copolymers under recombination reactions
Alex Blokhuis, David Lacoste
We describe the kinetics and thermodynamics of copolymers undergoing recombination reactions, which are important for prebiotic chemistry. We use two approaches: the first one, bas…