Articles

Magazine Articles

• Sheehan, D.P. and Wright, J.H., Turning Up the Heat On the Second Law; An article written for a general audience. (2007)
• Sheehan, D.P., Putnam, A.R. and Wright, J.H., Thermally Charged Capacitors; An important, but as yet unpublished, article.  (2003)

Books and Conference Volumes

• Sheehan, D.P. (Editor), The Second Law of Thermodynamics: Foundations and Status, Special Issue of Foundations of Physics, (Vol. 37.12); Proceedings of AAAS Symposium, June 19-22, 2006, University of San Diego, CA (2007).
• Sheehan, D.P. (Editor), Frontiers of Time: Retrocausation – Experiment and Theory, AIP Conference Series, Volume 863, (AIP Press, Melville, NY, 2006) ISBN: 978-0-7354-0361-1.
• Capek, V. and D.P. Sheehan, Challenges to the Second Law of Thermodynamics (Theory and Experi­ment); Vol. 146 in Fundamental Theories of Physics Series, (Springer, Dordrecht, Netherlands, 2005) ISBN: 1-4020-3015-0.
• Sheehan, D.P. (Editor), First International Conference on Quantum Limits to the Second Law, San Diego, CA, July 2002, AIP Conference Volume 643 (American Institute of Physics, Melville, NY, 2002) ISBN: 0-7354-0098-9.

Refereed Journal Articles

Solid State

• Sheehan, D.P., J.H. Wright, A.R. Putnam, and E.K. Perttu, Intrinsically-biased resonant NEMS­MEMS oscillator and the second law of thermodynamics; Physica E 29 87 (2005)
• Wright, J.H., D.P. Sheehan, and A.R. Putnam, Modeling a submicrometer electrostatic motor; J. Nanosci. Nanotech. 3 329 (2003).
• Sheehan, D.P., A.R. Putnam and J.H. Wright, A solid-state Maxwell demon; Found. Phys. 32 1557 (2002).

Physical Chemical

• Sheehan, D.P., Thermosynthetic life, Found. Phys. 37 1774 (2007).
• Sheehan, D.P. and T. Seideman, Intrinsically biased electrocapacitive catalysis; J. Chem. Physics 122 204713 (2005).
• Sheehan, D.P., The second law and chemically-induced, steady-state pressure gradients: controversy, corroboration and caveats; Phys. Lett. A 280 185 (2001).
• Sheehan, D.P., Reply to “Comment on ‘Dynamically maintained steady-state pressure gradients;”’ Phys. Rev. E 61 4662 (2000).
• Sheehan, D.P., Dynamically-maintained, steady-state pressure gradients; Phys. Rev. E 57 6660 (1998).

Plasmas

• Capek, V. and D.P. Sheehan, Quantum mechanical model of a plasma system: A challenge to the second law of thermodynamics; Physica A 304 461 (2002).
• Sheehan, D.P. and J.D. Means, Minimum requirement for second law violation: A paradox revisited; Phys. Plasmas 5 2469 (1998).
• Sheehan, D.P., Another paradox involving the second law of thermodynamics; Phys. Plasmas 3 104 (1996).
• Sheehan, D.P., Response to comment on “A paradox involving the second law of thermodynamics;” Phys. Plasmas 3 706 (1996).
• Sheehan, D.P., A paradox involving the second law of thermodynamics; Phys. Plasmas 2 1893 (1995).

Gravitation

• Sheehan, D.P., J. Glick, T. Duncan, J.A. Langton, M.J. Gagliardi and R. Tobe, Phase space analysis of a gravitationally-induced, steady-state nonequilibrium; Phys. Scripta 65 430 (2002).
• Sheehan, D.P., J. Glick, T. Duncan, J.A. Langton, M.J. Gagliardi and R. Tobe; Phase space portraits of an unresolved Maxwell demon, Found. Phys. 32 441 (2002).
• Sheehan, D.P., J. Glick, J.D. Means, Steady-state work by an asymmetrically inelastic gravitator in a gas: a second law paradox; Found. Phys. 30 1227 (2000).
• Sheehan, D.P. and J. Glick, Gravitationally-induced, dynamically-maintained, steady-state pressure gradients; Phys. Script. 61 635 (2000).

General

• Sheehan, D.P., Energy, entropy and the environment (How to increase the first by decreasing the second to save the third.), J. Sci. Explor., in press (2008).
• Sheehan, D.P. and D.H.E. Gross, Extensivity and the thermodynamic limit: Why size really does matter, Physica A 370 461 (2006).
• Nikulov, A. and D.P. Sheehan, The second law mystique; Entropy 6 1 (2004).
• Sheehan, D.P., Four paradoxes involving the second law of thermodynamics; J. Sci. Explor. 12 303 (1998).

Nanotechnology

• Sheehan, D.P., J.T. Webster and L. Baird, Orthogonally-oriented nanotube arrays: Experiment, J. Nanosci. Nanotech. 7 3653 (2007).
• Sheehan, D.P., Orthogonally-oriented nanotube arrays: Theory, J. Nanosci. Nanotech. 6 2533 (2006).
• Wright, J.H., D.P. Sheehan, and A.R. Putnam, Modeling a submicrometer electrostatic motor; J. Nanosci. Nanotech. 3 329 (2003).