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Non-linear transport behaviour in very thin membranes

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 March 2009

R. Schlögl
Affiliation:
Max-Planck-Institut für Biophysik, Frankfurt a.M., Germany

Extract

It appears questionable whether the thermodynamics of irreversible processes can be applied formally in a simple way to the transport of matter or energy across very thin membranes such as lipid bilayers. This is because a thin layer probably cannot be described in a strict thermodynamical sense as a continuous phase.

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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1969

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