Survival of Virus Particles in Water Droplets: Hydrophobic Forces and Landauer’s Principle
Many small biological objects, such as viruses, survive in a water environment and cannot remain active in dry air without condensation of water vapor. From a physical point of view, these objects belong to the mesoscale, where small thermal fluctuations with the characteristic kinetic energy of <...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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MDPI AG
2021-01-01
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| Series: | Entropy |
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| Online Access: | https://www.mdpi.com/1099-4300/23/2/181 |