This finding is not intuitive since a decrease in entropy is typically believed to occur as a signal becomes more regular or sinusoidal.
These co-linearities ultimately lead to a decrease in entropy because the signal appears overly regular due to an increase in the number of matches to the template pattern.
It might seem there is a contradiction here, as measurement, in the Szilard engine, is supposed to lead to the possibility of a decrease in entropy, while measurement, in quantum theory, is supposed to increase entropy.
The spontaneous formation of a heat or pressure gradient would lead to a decrease in entropy and thus violate the Second Law.
The increase in the number of new molecular species capable of participating in the reaction set results in more ways to dissipate the free energy, and thus an increase, not a decrease, in entropy [ 28- 30].
However, while the narrow binding site contributes positively to the substrate selectivity, it negatively affects the affinity because of a decrease in entropy (see Appendix 1).
Generally, these associations result in a decrease in entropy, indicating that these peptide mercury complexes potentially form highly ordered structures.
Also, as the adsorption process was exothermic, it should have been accompanied by a decrease in entropy.
The negative values of the calculated adsorption entropy (Table 3) mean that the adsorption process is accompanied by a decrease in entropy.
In the N-terminal L9 and RNase Sa systems, changes in electrostatic interactions in the unfolded state that cause an increase in free energy had an overall compaction effect that suggests a decrease in entropy.
