Francesco Avanzini

Emergence of open chemical reaction network thermodynamics within closed systems

We address a fundamental question: under which conditions do the dynamics and thermodynamics of open chemical reaction networks (CRNs), grounded on the notion of idealized chemostats that exchange selected species, emerge from underlying closed CRNs? While open CRNs provide the s...

Identifying non-ideal reaction-diffusion systems unable to maintain diffusion out-of-equilibrium

We develop a general method, based on the construction of a kinetic potential serving as a Lyapunov function, to establish when diffusion necessarily equilibrates in non-ideal reaction-diffusion systems under arbitrary driving by autonomous homogeneous chemostats. This equilibrat...