Introduction to Nanoscience by S. M. Lindsay ISBN: 9780199544219.
Chapter 3: Statistical mechanics and chemical kinetics.
3.16 The Kramer theory of reaction rates.
3.17 Chemical kinematics.
3.18 Acid-base reactions as an example of chemical equilibrium.
3.19 The Michaelis-Menten relation and on-off rates in nano-bio reactions.
3.20 Rate equations in small systems.
3.21 Nanothermodynamics.
3.22 Modeling nanosystems explicitly:molecular dynamics.
3.23 Systems far from equilibrium: Jarzynski’s equality.
3.24 Fluctuations and quantum mechanics.
3.25 Bibliography.
3.26 Exercises.
References.
Appendix C: Schrödinger equation for the hydrogen atom.
Appendix G: The Gibbs distribution.