A Different Approach to Nanothermodynamics
Terrell L. HillDepartment of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California at Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, California 95064
2001en
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Abstract
Gibbs initiated his main contribution to thermodynamics by adding new chemical potential terms to the basic energy−heat−work equation. Nanothermodynamics is initiated, as a next step, by adding (at the ensemble level) a further subdivision potential term to the chemical potential terms of Gibbs. The basic equations of nanothermodynamics can then be deduced efficiently from this starting point.
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