title: Energy propagation throughout chemical networks.
abstract: In order to maintain their metabolism from an energy source, living cells rely on chains of energy transfer involving functionally identified components and organizations. However, propagation of a sustained energy flux through a cascade of reaction cycles has only been recently reproduced at a steady state in simple chemical systems. As observed in living cells, the spontaneous onset of energy-transfer chains notably drives local generation of singular dissipative chemical structures: continuous matter fluxes are dynamically maintained at boundaries between spatially and chemically segregated zones but in the absence of any membrane or predetermined material structure.
authors.affiliation: École Normale Supérieure-PSL Research University, Department of Chemistry, 24, rue Lhomond, 75005 Paris, France. Ludovic.Jullien@ens.fr.
authors.forename: Thomas
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Le Saux
authors.forename: Raphaël
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Plasson
authors.forename: Ludovic
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Jullien
mesh_terms: D000255:Adenosine Triphosphate / Q000378:metabolism; D004735:Energy Transfer; D008027:Light; D006180:Proton-Translocating ATPases / Q000737:chemistry / Q000378:metabolism; D013816:Thermodynamics
chemical_list: D000255:Adenosine Triphosphate; D006180:Proton-Translocating ATPases