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most citedThermodynamics of accuracy in kinetic proofreading: Dissipation and efficiency trade-offs

45 citations · 81 across the 3 of their papers we have counts for

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7 papers

q-bio.PE2025

Bacterial proliferation pattern formation

John S. Chuang, Riccardo Rao, Stanislas Leibler

Bacteria can form a great variety of spatially heterogeneous cell density patterns, ranging from simple concentric rings to dynamical spiral waves appearing in growing colonies. Th…

cond-mat.stat-mech202136 cited

Nonequilibrium thermodynamics of light-induced reactions

Emanuele Penocchio, Riccardo Rao, Massimiliano Esposito

Current formulations of nonequilibrium thermodynamics of open chemical reaction networks only consider chemostats as free-energy sources sustaining nonequilibrium behaviours. Here,…

physics.chem-ph2019

Thermodynamic Efficiency in Dissipative Chemistry

Emanuele Penocchio, Riccardo Rao, Massimiliano Esposito

Chemical processes in closed systems are poorly controllable since they always relax to equilibrium. Living systems avoid this fate and give rise to a much richer diversity of phen…

cond-mat.stat-mech2018

Detailed Fluctuation Theorems: A Unifying Perspective

Riccardo Rao, Massimiliano Esposito

We present a general method to identify an arbitrary number of fluctuating quantities which satisfy a detailed fluctuation theorem for all times within the framework of time-inhomo…

cond-mat.stat-mech2018

Conservation Laws and Work Fluctuation Relations in Chemical Reaction Networks

Riccardo Rao, Massimiliano Esposito

We formulate a nonequilibrium thermodynamic description for open chemical reaction networks (CRN) described by a chemical master equation. The topological properties of the CRN and…

cond-mat.stat-mech2018

Information Thermodynamics of Turing Patterns

Gianmaria Falasco, Riccardo Rao, Massimiliano Esposito

We set up a rigorous thermodynamic description of reaction-diffusion systems driven out of equilibrium by time-dependent space-distributed chemostats. Building on the assumption of…