"Thermodynamics: Fundamentals and Its Application in Science" ed. by Ricardo Morales-Rodriguez

This book presents the selection of various high level contributions involving thermodynamics. The book goes from the fundamentals up to several applications in different scientific fields. The content of the book has been classified in six sections: Classical Thermodynamics, Statistical Thermodynamics, Property Prediction in Thermodynamics, Material and Products, Non Equilibrium and Thermodynamics in Diverse Areas.

The classification of the book aims to provide to the reader the facility of finding the desired topic included in the book. It is expected that this collection of chapters will contribute to the state of the art in the thermodynamics area.

Contents
Preface
Section 1 Classical Thermodynamics
1 A View from the Conservation of Energy to Chemical Thermodynamic
2 Useful Work and Gibbs Energy
Section 2 Statistical Thermodynamics
3 Gibbs Free Energy Formula for Protein Folding
4 Information Capacity of Quantum Transfer Channels and Thermodynamic Analogies
5 Thermodynamics' Microscopic Connotations
Section 3 Property Prediction and Thermodynamics
6 Group Contribution Methods for Estimation of Selected Physico-Chemical Properties of Organic Compounds
7 Thermodynamic Properties and Applications of Modified van-der-Waals Equations of State
8 Thermodynamics Simulations Applied to Gas-Solid Materials Fabrication Processes
Section 4 Material and Products
9 Application of Thermodynamics and Kinetics in Materials Engineering
10 Thermodynamics of Wool Dyeing
11 Mesomechanics and Thermodynamics of Nanostructural Transitions in Biological Membranes Under the Action of Steroid Hormones
12 Thermodynamics of Resulting Complexes Between Cyclodextrins and Bile Salts
13 Thermodynamics of Hydration in Minerals: Howto Predict These Entities
14 Thermodynamics and Kinetics in the Synthesis of Monodisperse Nanoparticles
15 Statistical Thermodynamics of Lattice Gas Models of Multisite Adsorption
Section 5 Non-Equilibrium Thermodynamics
16 Influence of Simulation Parameters on the Excitable Media Behaviour - The Case of Turbulent Mixing
17 ECOP Criterion for Irreversible Three-Heat-Source Absorption Refrigerators
Section 6 Thermodynamics in Diverse Areas
18 Thermodynamics of Microarray Hybridization
19 Probing the Thermodynamics of Photosystem I by Spectroscopic and Mutagenic Methods
20 Fuzzy Spheres Decays and Black Hole Thermodynamics
21 Bibliometric Analysis of Thermodynamic Research: A Science Citation Index Expanded-Based Analysis