THERMODYNAMICS – INTERACTION STUDIES – SOLIDS, LIQUIDS AND GASES Edited by Juan Carlos Moreno-Piraján Thermodynamics – Interaction Studies – Solids, Liquids and Gases Edited by Juan Carlos Moreno-Piraján Published by InTech Janeza Trdine 9, 51000 Rijeka, Croatia Copyright © 2011 InTech All chapters are Open Access distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 license, which permits to copy, distribute, transmit, and adapt the work in any medium, so long as the original work is properly cited. After this work has been published by InTech, authors have the right to republish it, in whole or part, in any publication of which they are the author, and to make other personal use of the work. Any republication, referencing or personal use of the work must explicitly identify the original source. 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Used under license from Shutterstock.com First published September, 2011 Printed in Croatia A free online edition of this book is available at www.intechopen.com Additional hard copies can be obtained from orders@intechweb.org Thermodynamics – Interaction Studies – Solids, Liquids and Gases, Edited by Juan Carlos Moreno-Piraján p. cm. ISBN 978-953-307-563-1 free online editions of InTech Books and Journals can be found at www.intechopen.com Contents Preface IX Chapter 1 Thermodynamics of Ligand-Protein Interactions: Implications for Molecular Design 1 Agnieszka K. Bronowska Chapter 2 Atmospheric Thermodynamics 49 Francesco Cairo Chapter 3 Thermodynamic Aspects of Precipitation Efficiency 73 Xinyong Shen and Xiaofan Li Chapter 4 Comparison of the Thermodynamic Parameters Estimation for the Adsorption Process of the Metals from Liquid Phase on Activated Carbons 95 Svetlana Lyubchik, Andrey Lyubchik, Olena Lygina, Sergiy Lyubchik and Isabel Fonseca Chapter 5 Thermodynamics of Nanoparticle Formation in Laser Ablation 123 Toshio Takiya, Min Han and Minoru Yaga Chapter 6 Thermodynamics of the Oceanic General Circulation – Is the Abyssal Circulation a Heat Engine or a Mechanical Pump? 147 Shinya Shimokawa and Hisashi Ozawa Chapter 7 Thermodynamic of the Interactions Between Gas-Solidand Solid-Liquid on Carbonaceous Materials 163 Vanessa García-Cuello, Diana Vargas-Delgadillo, Yesid Murillo-Acevedo, Melina Yara Cantillo-Castrillon, Paola Rodríguez-Estupiñán, Liliana Giraldo and Juan Carlos Moreno-Piraján Chapter 8 Thermodynamics of Interfaces 201 Omid Moradi VI Contents Chapter 9 Exergy, the Potential Work 251 Mofid Gorji-Bandpy Chapter 10 Dimensionless Parametric Analysis of Spark Ignited Free-Piston Linear Alternator 271 Jinlong Mao, Zhengxing Zuo and Huihua Feng Chapter 11 Time Resolved Thermodynamics Associated with Diatomic Ligand Dissociation from Globins 301 Jaroslava Miksovska and Luisana Astudillo Chapter 12 Some Applications of Thermodynamics for Ecological Systems 319 Eugene A. Silow, Andrey V. Mokry and Sven E. Jørgensen Chapter 13 Statistical Thermodynamics of Material Transport in Non-Isothermal Mixtures 343 Semen Semenov and Martin Schimpf Chapter 14 Thermodynamics of Surface Growth with Application to Bone Remodeling 369 Jean-François Ganghoffer Chapter 15 Thermodynamic Aspects of CVD Crystallization of Refractory Metals and Their Alloys 403 Yu. V. Lakhotkin Chapter 16 Effect of Stagnation Temperature on Supersonic Flow Parameters with Application for Air in Nozzles 421 Toufik Zebbiche Chapter 17 Statistical Mechanics That Takes into Account Angular Momentum Conservation Law - Theory and Application 445 Illia Dubrovskyi Chapter 18 The Role and the Status of Thermodynamics in Quantum Chemistry Calculations 469 Llored Jean-Pierre Chapter 19 Thermodynamics of ABO 3 -Type Perovskite Surfaces 491 Eugene Heifets, Eugene A. Kotomin, Yuri A. Mastrikov, Sergej Piskunov and Joachim Maier Chapter 20 Advances in Interfacial Adsorption Thermodynamics: Metastable-Equilibrium Adsorption (MEA) Theory 519 Gang Pan, Guangzhi He and Meiyi Zhang Contents VII Chapter 21 Towards the Authentic Ab Intio Thermodynamics 543 In Gee Kim Chapter 22 Thermodynamics of the Phase Equilibriums of Some Organic Compounds 595 Raisa Varushchenko and Anna Druzhinina Chapter 23 Thermodynamics and Thermokinetics to Model Phase Transitions of Polymers over Extended Temperature and Pressure Ranges Under Various Hydrostatic Fluids 641 Séverine A.E. Boyer, Jean-Pierre E. Grolier, Hirohisa Yoshida, Jean-Marc Haudin and Jean-Loup Chenot Chapter 24 Thermodynamics and Reaction Rates 673 Miloslav Pekař Chapter 25 The Thermodynamics in Planck's Law 695 Constantinos Ragazas Chapter 26 Statistical Thermodynamics 717 Anatol Malijevský Chapter 27 Thermodynamics Approach in the Adsorption of Heavy Metals 737 Mohammed A. Al-Anber Chapter 28 Thermodynamics as a Tool for the Optimization of Drug Binding 765 Ruth Matesanz, Benet Pera and J. Fernando Díaz Chapter 29 On the Chlorination Thermodynamics 785 Brocchi E. A. and Navarro R. C. S. Chapter 30 Thermodynamics of Reactions Among Al 2 O 3 , CaO, SiO 2 and Fe 2 O 3 During Roasting Processes 825 Zhongping Zhu, Tao Jiang, Guanghui Li, Yufeng Guo and Yongbin Yang Chapter 31 Thermodynamic Perturbation Theory of Simple Liquids 839 Jean-Louis Bretonnet Chapter 32 Probing Solution Thermodynamics by Microcalorimetry 871 Gregory M. K. Poon Chapter 33 Thermodynamics of Metal Hydrides: Tailoring Reaction Enthalpies of Hydrogen Storage Materials 891 Martin Dornheim Preface Thermodynamics is one of the most exciting branches of physical chemistry which has greatly contributed to the modern science. Since its inception, great minds have built their theories of thermodynamics. 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Juan Carlos Moreno-Piraján Department of Chemistry University of the Andes Colombia [...]... introduced to study ligand-protein interactions These methods include one-, two- and three-dimensional NMR experiments Many studies, to date, proved the power of stable-isotope labelling and isotope-edited NMR in the investigation of ligand-protein interactions Recent development of techniques allowed for 18 Thermodynamics – Interaction Studies – Solids, Liquids and Gases the study of ligand-induced conformational... Multi-atom VdW interactions are, in most cases, neglected This follows the Axilrod-Teller theory, which predicts a dramatic (i.e much stronger than for pairwise interactions) decrease of three-atom interactions with distance (Axilrod and Teller, 19 43) Indeed, detailed calculations of single-atom liquids (Sadus, 19 98) and solids 6 Thermodynamics – Interaction Studies – Solids, Liquids and Gases (Donchev,... al., 19 99, Nagendra et al., 19 98, Poornima and Dean, 19 95a) Those water molecules may be regarded as part of the protein structure Ligand-protein interactions are often mediated by water molecules buried in the binding site and forming multiple hydrogen bonds with both binding partners (Poornima and Dean, 19 95a-c) In other cases, those bound water molecules are released to 10 Thermodynamics – Interaction. .. – Interaction Studies – Solids, Liquids and Gases G  H  T S (1) where G is free binding energy, H is enthalpy, S entropy, and T is the temperature The enthalpic contribution to the free energy reflects the specificity and strength of the interactions between both partners These include ionic, halogen, and hydrogen bonds, electrostatic (Coulomb) and van der Waals interactions, and polarisation... unbound (apo) protein and a ligand-protein complex (holo), or two ligand-protein complexes with different ligands In the framework of FEP, the difference in the free energy difference for two states is obtained from the Zwanzig equation (10 ) 24 Thermodynamics – Interaction Studies – Solids, Liquids and Gases  E  EA  G A  B  GB  G A  k BT ln exp   B k BT      (10 ) A where A and B represent... be, in some cases, caused by structural tightening through the presence of additional interactions; inter-atomic distances become shorter and interaction becomes 12 Thermodynamics – Interaction Studies – Solids, Liquids and Gases enthalpically more favorable Evidence for such a mechanism has been reported for many ligand-protein complexes; biotin-streptavidin being one of the most extensively studied... effect, and other solvent effects will be discussed further in the following parts of this chapter 2.2.6 Interactions mediated by aromatic rings Aromatic rings deserve special attention in the context of ligand-protein interactions Interactions between ligands and protein aromatic side chains ( Phe, Trp ,and Tyr) are widespread in ligand-protein complexes (Bissantz et al., 2 010 ) The unique steric and electronic... free energy of binding and its enthalpic and entropic components, the contributions from both interacting partners, interaction energy of the association, and specific types of interactions – such as hydrogen bonding or van der Waals interactions, ligand and protein flexibility, and ultimately solvent effects (e.g solute-solvent interactions, solvent reorganisation) The second part is dedicated to methods... ligand-protein dynamics However, B-factors do not distinguish time scales of the motions and their interpretation is not straightforward X-ray (Makowski et al., 2 011 ) and neutron scattering (Frauenfelder and Mezei, 2 010 ) also reflect on ligand-protein dynamics The former one focuses on global changes in protein size and shape in a time-resolved manner, while the latter reports on motion amplitudes and. .. widespread applicability in the study of biological systems Apart from its versatility and simple experimental setup, ITC also has advantages over some other 14 Thermodynamics – Interaction Studies – Solids, Liquids and Gases techniques: the experiments can be performed in a physiologically relevant buffer, no surface effects have to be taken into account, and the interacting species do not require immobilisation . THERMODYNAMICS – INTERACTION STUDIES – SOLIDS, LIQUIDS AND GASES Edited by Juan Carlos Moreno-Piraján Thermodynamics – Interaction Studies – Solids, Liquids and Gases. binding free energy (1) , which is the sum of an enthalpic, and an entropic, terms: Thermodynamics – Interaction Studies – Solids, Liquids and Gases 4 GHTS     (1) where G  is. orders@intechweb.org Thermodynamics – Interaction Studies – Solids, Liquids and Gases, Edited by Juan Carlos Moreno-Piraján p. cm. ISBN 978-953-307-563 -1 free online editions of InTech Books and Journals