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Chapter 4 described a class of transport processes in which the substrate flux is driven by either the affinity of a metabolic reaction or the chemical potential difference of a cosolute. This coupling of a flux to a force that is not its conjugate driving force is often seen in biological transport. Nonequilibrium thermodynamics, also called irreversible thermodynamics, is the formalism that describes the relationships among the many forces and fluxes that are simultaneously present in living systems.
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Friedman, M.H. (1986). Nonequilibrium Thermodynamics. In: Principles and Models of Biological Transport. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-02467-6_5
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