Decoding the chemistry of life: Maximum entropy reveals how mutations alter enzymes and drive drug resistance

For decades, Arieh Warshel, USC Distinguished Professor of Chemistry and a 2013 Nobel laureate, has used computer simulations ...
EurekAlert!

Recent advances in high-entropy alloys for electrochemical hydrogen evolution, oxygen reduction, and CO₂ reduction reactions

High entropy alloys (HEAs) have gained significant attention in electrocatalysis research due to their distinctive ...
New Scientist

Impossible chemistry: Having entropy both ways

For Boris Belousov, vindication came too late. When the Soviet biochemist was awarded his country’s prestigious Lenin prize in 1980, he had been dead for 10 years. At least he lived long enough to see ...
Forbes

Ask Ethan: What Was The Entropy Of The Universe At The Big Bang?

The second law of thermodynamics is one of those puzzling laws of nature that simply emerges from the fundamental rules. It says that entropy, a measure of disorder in the Universe, must always ...
Scientific American

The Physical Notions of Entropy and Free Energy and their Importance in General Chemistry

Scientific American is part of Springer Nature, which owns or has commercial relations with thousands of scientific publications (many of them can be found at www ...