OUT-OF-EQUILIBRIUM NANOSYSTEMS

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In many circumstances, nanosystems are smart because they function out of equilibrium. This is the case for nanomechanical actuators using carbon nanotubes as their shaft, molecular motors, copolymerization processes such as DNA replication, nanometric chemical clocks, or electronic nanodevices. These nanosystems dissipate energy in nonequilibrium regimes, which need to be characterized for their transport and thermodynamic properties.

	*Selected publications* Out-of-equilibrium nanosystems, P. Gaspard, Prog. Theor. Phys. Suppl. 165, 33 ( 2006). Friction in carbon nanotubes: Methods of calculation of a friction coefficient: Application to nanotubes, J. Servantie and P. Gaspard, Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 185503 (2003). Translational dynamics and friction in double-walled carbon nanotubes, J. Servantie and P. Gaspard, Phys. Rev. B 73, 125428 (2006). Rotational dynamics and friction in double-walled carbon nanotubes, J. Servantie and P. Gaspard, Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 186106 (2006). Molecular motors: The stochastic chemomechanics of the F1-ATPase molecular motor, P. Gaspard and E. Gerritsma, J. Theor. Biol. 247, 672 (2007). Fluctuation theorems and the nonequilibrium thermodynamics of molecular motors, D. Andrieux and P. Gaspard, Phys. Rev. E 74, 011906 (2006). Single-copolymer processes: Nonequilibrium generation of information in copolymerization processes, D. Andrieux and P. Gaspard, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 105 , 9516 (2008). Chemical clocks: Nanometric chemical clocks, J.-S. McEwen, P. Gaspard, T. Visart de Bocarmé, and N. Kruse, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 106, 3006 (2009). Fluctuation theorem and mesoscopic chemical clocks, D. Andrieux and P. Gaspard, J. Chem. Phys. 128, 154506 (2008).