The application of concepts from equilibrium statistical mechanics to out-of-equilibrium systems has a long history of describing diverse systems ranging from glasses to granular materials. For dissipative jammed systems-- particulate grains or droplets-- a key concept is to replace the energy ensemble...
Ligand-receptor interactions have long been described with the formalism elaborated by chemists for reactions in solution, i.e., affinity at equilibrium, and kinetics by on-rate and off-rates. However, ligand-receptor interac- tions occurring at cell-cell interfaces may differ significantly from ...
toincludetheeffectsofpressureinthecomponentdynamicsofmisciblepolymerblends.The resultingmodelhasbeentestedonpolyvinylmethylether PVME /polystyrenePS blendsat differentconcentrationsandinthetemperaturerangewherethesystemisinequilibrium.Theresults showanexcellentagreementbetweentheexperimentalandcalculatedrelaxationtimesusingonly ...