Author(s)

Vicente R. de Almeida, Bruno Szpoganicz

Equlibrium Laboratory, Chemistry Department, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Florianópolis, Brazil.

In this study, we used potentiometric titration to investigate the interaction of the saprophytic fungus Trametes villosa in an aqueous environment. The study of this biological complex system allowed us to observe the evolution of out-ofequilibrium hydrogen ion potential states after systematic perturbations. The responses of the complex system to perturbations were interpreted from relations that provided qualitative response patterns for mycelium in agreement with their basic structural and organizational characteristics. We consider this to be a transdisciplinary example of the behavior of general systems with thermodynamic properties of great ecological relevance, being specifically related to the negentropic properties of heterogeneous systems.

Transdisciplinarity; Fungi; Proton Exchange; Out-of-Equilibrium Thermodynamics; pH; Ecological Relations

V. Almeida and B. Szpoganicz, "Proton Exchange in Water/Mycelium System: Transdisciplinary Out-of-Equilibrium Thermodynamic Approach Using Potentiometric Titration," Open Journal of Physical Chemistry, Vol. 3 No. 4, 2013, pp. 189-200. doi: 10.4236/ojpc.2013.34023.