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Seriously non-thermal thermodynamics

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Non-equilibrium thermodynamics describes activity-stabilized mixed states in complex active-matter systems.

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Fig. 1: Activity-controlled phase separation in a biomolecular system.

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  1. Institute for Basic Science, Center for Soft and Living Matter, Ulsan, South Korea

    Tian Huang & Qi Pan

  2. Department of Polymer Science and Engineering, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, USA

    Tian Huang, Qi Pan & Steve Granick

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Huang, T., Pan, Q. & Granick, S. Seriously non-thermal thermodynamics. Nat. Mater. 22, 1281–1282 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41563-023-01695-x

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