4 papers
One-way catalysis in a solvable lattice model
Sara Mahdavi, Yann Sakref, Olivier Rivoire
Catalysts speed up chemical reactions with no energy input and without being transformed in the process, therefore leaving equilibrium constants unchanged. Some catalysts, however,…
Design principles, growth laws, and competition of minimal autocatalysts
Yann Sakref, Olivier Rivoire
The apparent difficulty of designing simple autocatalysts that grow exponentially in the absence of enzymes, external drives or ingenious internal mechanisms severely constrains sc…
On Kinetic Constraints That Catalysis Imposes on Elementary Processes
Yann Sakref, Maitane Muñoz-Basagoiti, Zorana Zeravcic +1
Catalysis, the acceleration of product formation by a substance that is left unchanged, typically results from multiple elementary processes, including diffusion of the reactants t…
On the exclusion of exponential autocatalysts by sub-exponential autocatalysts
Yann Sakref, Olivier Rivoire
Selection among autocatalytic species fundamentally depends on their growth law: exponential species, whose number of copies grows exponentially, are mutually exclusive, while sub-…