Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP0342706

Funding Activity

Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/DP0342706

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

Experimental Demonstrations of Violations of the Second Law of Thermodynamics. Inventors and engineers strive to scale-down machines, devices and engines to nanometre sizes for a range of technological purposes and scientists investigate protein motors to understand their operation in hopes of modifying their biological behaviour. However, according to a new theorem in Non-equilibrium Statistical Mechanics, there is a fundamental limit to this scaling-down of engines: such nanomachines, including protein motors, will run in "reverse" for appreciable amounts of time and in violation of the Second Law of Thermodynamics. We propose to demonstrate this inescapable, operational limit in nanotechnology with experiments using an Optical Tweezers apparatus.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 01-01-2003

End Date: 31-12-2007

Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects

Funding Amount: $445,000.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Thermodynamics And Statistical Physics | Mathematical Physics | Statistical Mechanics

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Measurement standards and calibration services not elsewhere classified | Chemical sciences | Scientific instrumentation |

Other Keywords

Chemical sciences | Mathematical Physics | Measurement standards and calibration services not elsewhere classified | Scientific instrumentation | Statistical Mechanics | Thermodynamics And Statistical Physics

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