Issue 47, 2014

Energy propagation throughout chemical networks

Abstract

In order to maintain their metabolism from an energy source, living cells rely on chains of energy transfer involving functionally identified components and organizations. However, propagation of a sustained energy flux through a cascade of reaction cycles has only been recently reproduced at a steady state in simple chemical systems. As observed in living cells, the spontaneous onset of energy-transfer chains notably drives local generation of singular dissipative chemical structures: continuous matter fluxes are dynamically maintained at boundaries between spatially and chemically segregated zones but in the absence of any membrane or predetermined material structure.

Graphical abstract: Energy propagation throughout chemical networks

Article information

Article type
Feature Article
Submitted
16 Jan 2014
Accepted
26 Feb 2014
First published
04 Mar 2014

Chem. Commun., 2014,50, 6189-6195

Author version available

Energy propagation throughout chemical networks

T. Le Saux, R. Plasson and L. Jullien, Chem. Commun., 2014, 50, 6189 DOI: 10.1039/C4CC00392F

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