What is Gibbs free energy? 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 ...

ABSTRACT Microbial growth is a biological process that has been previously treated as a chemical reaction operating in accord with the Gibbs free energy equation, ΔG=ΔH-TΔS. The heat of yeast growth ...