Emergent chemical behavior in variable-volume protocells

Life

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 181-211

  Shirt Ediss, Ben ^a,b   Solé, Ricard V ^a,c   Ruiz Mirazo, Kepa ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY CSIC UNIVERSITAT POMPEU FABRA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE BASQUE COUNTRY UPV EHU   (Spain)

^c SANTA FE INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Bistability; Chemical reactor; Continuous flow stirred tank reactor (CSTR); Mass action kinetics (MAK); Osmosis; Osmotic coupling; Semi permeable compartments; Systems chemistry; Variable solvent volume

Indexed keywords

EID: 84922010920     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20751729     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/life5010181     Document Type: Article

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