Jun 10, 2013: When calculating the thermodynamics of cell growth, you might want to reconsider using the Gibbs free energy equation (Nanowerk News) A forthcoming article in The Quarterly Review of ...

Josiah Willard Gibbs, an American mathematician, first described Gibbs free energy in the 1870s. According to Gibbs, free energy is the total energy of a system that is available to perform useful ...