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Second law efficiency for living cells
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Dipartimento Energia, Politecnico di Torino, Corso Duca degli Abruzzi 24, 10129 Torino, Italy
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Front. Biosci. (Schol Ed) 2017, 9(2), 270–275;
https://doi.org/10.2741/S487
Published: 1 June 2017
Abstract
The exergetic analysis of the biosystems is developed. It takes into account that cells are able to convert only part of the energy absorbed. The result is to highlight the fundamental role of the exergy as a quantity useful to develop considerations on the cells behavior in relation to normal or disease states.
Keywords
Entropy generation
Energy storage
Irreversibility
Temperature
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