Competition for Survival and the Maximum Entropy Production Principle in Self-Organized Silver Particle Chains (opens in new tab)

The maximum entropy production (MEP) principle is a hypothetical law of physics which dictates that complex systems, far from equilibrium, evolve into an ordered dissipative structure (DS) which generates as much entropy per second as possible. An important problem is whether the natural competition for resources, limits the ability of DS to achieve the maximum of the entropy production rate (EPR). We investigate this competition between DS by p...