Event
Driving systems away from equilibrium by thermal gradients| Title of the event | Driving systems away from equilibrium by thermal gradients |
| Series | LMP Seminar |
| Organizer | Physik lebender Materie |
| Speaker | Prof. Dr. Paolo de los Rios |
| Speaker institution | Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland |
| Type of event | Seminar |
| Category | Forschung |
| Registration required | Nein |
| Details | How did Life emerged? We do not know and we might never know the specific details. But we may address the general principles that could make Life, if not inevitable, at least likely given the right conditions. A liquid environment and a suitable temperature for reactions between organic molecules to occur is of course necessary. But Life as we know it is intrinsically a non-equilibrium phenomenon. In this talk I will show some recent results showing that in the presence of external energy sources, here a thermal gradient, the populations of higher energy chemical states, that are not favorable in equilibrium conditions, can be increased up to making them the most likely states. These results are a consequence of the interplay between chemical reactions and transport. Intriguingly, a byproduct of our studies is a potential theory of thermophoresis, a phenomenon characterized about 150 years ago which is still in search of a rigorous explanation. |
| Date | Start: 25.05.2021, 14:00 Uhr Ende: 25.05.2021 , 15:30 Uhr |
| Location |
Max-Planck-Institut für Dynamik und Selbstorganisation (MPIDS) (Am Faßberg 17) Video conference at www.zoom.us Meeting ID: 997 1155 2453 Passcode: 771001 |
| Contact |
Vincent Ouazan-Reboul vincent.ouazan-reboul@ds.mpg.de |