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SUBMITTER: Endres RG
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5663838 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Scientific reports 20171031 1
Far-from-equilibrium thermodynamics underpins the emergence of life, but how has been a long-outstanding puzzle. Best candidate theories based on the maximum entropy production principle could not be unequivocally proven, in part due to complicated physics, unintuitive stochastic thermodynamics, and the existence of alternative theories such as the minimum entropy production principle. Here, we use a simple, analytically solvable, one-dimensional bistable chemical system to demonstrate the valid ...[more]