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Thermodynamics of Irreversible Processes Applied to Biological Systems: Selected Examples

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Bioelectrochemistry IV

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This chapter is intended to illustrate the general principles presented in the preceding chapter by means of examples. Most examples pertain to the topics discussed in the previous chapters, and the reader is referred to these chapters for further details. Some examples are related to such topics but are taken from a different field.

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  1. Biozentrum, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland

    Dieter Walz

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  1. University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy

    Bruno Andrea Melandri

  2. Late of Instituto Superiore di Sanita, Rome, Italy

    Giulio Milazzo

  3. Columbia University, New York, New York, USA

    Martin Blank

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Walz, D. (1994). Thermodynamics of Irreversible Processes Applied to Biological Systems: Selected Examples. In: Melandri, B.A., Milazzo, G., Blank, M. (eds) Bioelectrochemistry IV. NATO ASI Series, vol 267. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-2576-9_17

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