Download or read book Molecular Assembly in Natural and Engineered Systems written by and published by Academic Press. This book was released on 2011-10-12 with total page 427 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume explores some of the most exciting recent advances in basic research on molecular assembly in natural and engineered systems and how this knowledge is leading to advances in the various fields. - This series provides a forum for discussion of new discoveries, approaches, and idea - Contributions from leading scholars and industry experts - Reference guide for researchers involved in molecular biology and related fields

Download or read book Molecular Assembly in Natural and Engineered Systems written by Stefan Howorka and published by Academic Press. This book was released on 2011-10-26 with total page 427 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume explores some of the most exciting recent advances in basic research on molecular assembly in natural and engineered systems and how this knowledge is leading to advances in the various fields. This series provides a forum for discussion of new discoveries, approaches, and idea Contributions from leading scholars and industry experts Reference guide for researchers involved in molecular biology and related fields

Download or read book Progress in molecular biology and translational science electronic journal written by and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Molecular Self Assembly written by Alex Li Dequan and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2012-12-20 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the past several decades, molecular self-assembly has emerged as one of the main themes in chemistry, biology, and materials science. This book compiles and details cutting-edge research in molecular assemblies ranging from self-organized peptide nanostructures and DNA-chromophore foldamers to supramolecular systems and metal-directed assemblies

Download or read book Self Assembly written by John A. Pelesko and published by Chapman and Hall/CRC. This book was released on 2007-05-21 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hailed as one of the key areas of nanoscience likely to shape future scientific research, self-assembly offers the most promising route to true molecular nanotechnology. Focusing on this dynamic new field, Self Assembly: The Science of Things That Put Themselves Together explores nature's self-assembly of structures, the use of it to build engineered systems, and the latest advances in the field. Reflecting the inherent progress of the science of self-assembly, this definitive book first delves into natural self-assembling systems. It addresses crystal growth, soap films, and micelles; examines how nature builds viruses, proteins, and ribosomes; and introduces the protein folding problem. The author then discusses how physicists, chemists, biologists, and engineers are applying nature's principles to self-assemble everything from DNA cubes to millimeter-scale electronic circuits. The final chapters cover theoretical and experimental approaches to understand the phenomenon of self-assembly and overcome its various challenges. With practical activities, profiles of leading experts, chapter highlights, exercises, and references, Self Assembly provides the most current authoritative information on this exciting branch of nanoscience.

Download or read book Bionanotechnology for Advanced Applications written by Ajaya Kumar Singh and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2024-03-08 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides the fundamental aspects of bionanomaterials and bionanotechnology, and insight into the synthesis and modification of bionanomaterials in a detailed manner. It initiates with a general overview of biotechnology and nanotechnology followed by different strategies and methodologies for the synthesis of nanomaterials. Further, it discusses pertinent topics such as protein engineering, analysis, mechanisms of microbe- mediated nanosynthesis, followed by various challenges and innovation strategies, and the role of enzymes in bionanotechnology. Features: Covers the synthesis of bionanomaterials, including the interaction between nanomaterial and biogenic materials Encompasses the study of the connections between structure, molecular biology, and nanotechnology Explains several techniques (XRD, SEM, TEM, etc.) used for the analysis of bionanomaterials Includes prospects, challenges, and opportunities associated with bionanotechnology Reviews the interaction between nanomaterials and the biological system and self- assembly in bionanotechnology This book is aimed at graduate students and researchers in materials sciences, biotechnology, and bionanotechnology.

Download or read book Macromolecular Self Assembly written by Laurent Billon and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2016-09-06 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book describes techniques of synthesis and self-assembly of macromolecules for developing new materials and improving functionality of existing ones. Because self-assembly emulates how nature creates complex systems, they likely have the best chance at succeeding in real-world biomedical applications. • Employs synthetic chemistry, physical chemistry, and materials science principles and techniques • Emphasizes self-assembly in solutions (particularly, aqueous solutions) and at solid-liquid interfaces • Describes polymer assembly driven by multitude interactions, including solvophobic, electrostatic, and obligatory co-assembly • Illustrates assembly of bio-hybrid macromolecules and applications in biomedical engineering

Download or read book Origin of Life via Archaea written by Richard Gordon and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2024-10-01 with total page 1268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book surveys the models for the origin of life and presents a new model starting with shaped droplets and ending with life as polygonal Archaea; it collects the most published micrographs of Archaea (discovered only in 1977), which support this conclusion, and thus provides the first visual survey of Archaea. Origin of Life via Archaea’s purpose is to add a new hypothesis on what are called “shaped droplets”, as the starting point, for flat, polygonal Archaea, supporting the Vesicles First hypothesis. The book contains over 6000 distinct references and micrographs of 440 extant species of Archaea, 41% of which exhibit polygonal phenotypes. It surveys the intellectual battleground of the many ideas of the origin of life on earth, chemical equilibrium, autocatalysis, and biotic polymers. This book contains 17 chapters, some coauthored, on a wide range of topics on the origin of life, including Archaea’s origin, patterns, and species. It shows how various aspects of the origin of life may have occurred at chemical equilibrium, not requiring an energy source, contrary to the general assumption. For the reader’s value, its compendium of Archaea micrographs might also serve many other interesting questions about Archaea. One chapter presents a theory for the shape of flat, polygonal Archaea in terms of the energetics at the surface, edges and corners of the S-layer. Another shows how membrane peptides may have originated. The book also includes a large table of most extant Archaea, that is searchable in the electronic version. It ends with a chapter on problems needing further research. Audience This book will be used by astrobiologists, origin of life biologists, physicists of small systems, geologists, biochemists, theoretical and vesicle chemists.

Download or read book Silk Biomaterials for Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine written by Subhas C. Kundu and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2014-03-24 with total page 595 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Silk is increasingly being used as a biomaterial for tissue engineering applications, as well as sutures, due to its unique mechanical and chemical properties. Silk Biomaterials for Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine discusses the properties of silk that make it useful for medical purposes and its applications in this area. Part one introduces silk biomaterials, discussing their fundamentals and how they are processed, and considering different types of silk biomaterials. Part two focuses on the properties and behavior of silk biomaterials and the implications of this for their applications in biomedicine. These chapters focus on topics including biodegradation, bio-response to silk sericin, and capillary growth behavior in porous silk films. Finally, part three discusses the applications of silk biomaterials for tissue engineering, regenerative medicine, and biomedicine, with chapters on the use of silk biomaterials for vertebral, dental, dermal, and cardiac tissue engineering. Silk Biomaterials for Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine is an important resource for materials and tissue engineering scientists, R&D departments in industry and academia, and academics with an interest in the fields of biomaterials and tissue engineering. - Discusses the properties and applications of silk for medical purposes - Considers pharmaceutical and cosmeceutical applications

Download or read book Pili in Mycobacterium Tuberculosis written by Ali Akbar Velayati and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2024-06-27 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pili in Mycobacterium Tuberculosis: Structure, Function, and Therapeutic Advances discusses the types of pili produced by the tuberculosis-causing bacterium, Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTBC. The book examines the structure of pili shown under electron and atomic force microscopy and by using whole genome sequencing, outlines the importance of pili in mycobacterium tuberculosis. It also explores the role of pili in bacteria-host interactions and in drug development and delivery. Pili in Mycobacterium Tuberculosis opens with an overview of the structure, synthesis, and function of pili in bacteria. This includes taxonomy and the role of pili in diseases. The book also examines the preparation of Mycobacterium tuberculosis for electronic and atomic microscopy and looks at the different life cycles and susceptibility patterns of MTBC. It does on to discuss the expression and function of pili using whole genome sequencing and PCR-based methods and delves into bacteria host interactions. Lastly, it explores the development of new drugs and its delivery by pili. • Covers the structure, synthesis, and function of pili produced by the tuberculosis-causing bacterium, MTB• Introduces seven types of pili in MTB• Explains the mechanism of bacteria–host attachment and importance of this phenomena in MTB pili and other bacteria• Emphasizes the use of advances techniques to study and investigate the TB-bacilli and its interaction with host cells

Download or read book Supramolecular Polymers written by Alberto Ciferri and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2005-04-26 with total page 778 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Supramolecular Polymers, Second Edition details assembly processes and structure-function correlation in natural and synthetic self-assembling materials, focusing on developments occurred over the past five years. The book highlights developments in the synthesis of complex structures, chemical design principles, and theoretical models of

Download or read book Scaffolds for Tissue Engineering written by Claudio Migliaresi and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2014-06-10 with total page 671 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scaffolds for tissue engineering are devices that exploit specific and complex physical and biological functions, in vitro or in vivo, and communicate through biochemical and physical signals with cells and, when implanted, with the body environment. Scaffolds are produced mainly with synthetic materials, and their fabrication technologies are deri

Download or read book Tissue Engineering written by Norbert Pallua and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2010-12-16 with total page 632 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tissue engineering is a multidisciplinary field incorporating the principles of biology, chemistry, engineering, and medicine to create biological substitutes of native tissues for scientific research or clinical use. Specific applications of this technology include studies of tissue development and function, investigating drug response, and tissue repair and replacement. This area is rapidly becoming one of the most promising treatment options for patients suffering from tissue failure. This abundantly illustrated and well-structured guide serves as a reference for all clinicians and researchers dealing with tissue engineering issues in their daily practice.

Download or read book Self Assembly with DNA From Materials Design to Chromatin written by Joshua Paul Lequieu and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ability to engineer the self-assembly of nano-scale objects to create highly ordered materials is of considerable scientific and practical interest. This new class of materials represents a powerful approach for engineering a next generation of devices, whose mechanical, optical, and electrical properties can be precisely tuned at the molecular scale. Though significant strides towards this goal have been achieved in recent years, the complexity achieved in engineered systems is still far surpassed by that achieved by nature. Precise self-assembly is achieved by nature through proteins and nucleic acids that fold into intricate, three-dimensional, and importantly, functional structures. A promising avenue towards improved engineered systems is to draw on discoveries from biophysics in order to inspire new approaches and paradigms for self-assembly and materials design. In this work, we explore the interplay between biophysics and engineering by exploring the self-assembly of DNA. Our discussion begins at the smallest length-scales of DNA, first by understanding the hybridization of DNA, and then at how hybridization can be used in materials to direct the self-assembly of gold nanoparticles. We report the first evidence of a tunable mechanical response in these assemblies, thereby suggesting the possibility of mechanical meta-materials constructed using DNA. Our discussion then proceeds to larger length scales, where we examine the biophysical processes that control the compaction of DNA into chromatin. Using a detailed molecular model, we explore the free energies and dynamics of smallest building block of chromatin, a protein-DNA complex called the nucleosome. Our results are in quantitative agreement with existing experimental measurements, and help to explain the molecular factors that dictate the first stages of DNA compaction into chromatin. Lastly, we present a multi-scale approach that can couple information across different length scales of chromatin in order to examine the folding of large regions DNA. By drawing on both the biophysics and engineering literature, the findings presented here suggest new approaches for materials design, and offer new paradigms for synthetic systems that seek to mimic the complexity achieved by nature.

Download or read book Advances in Chemical Engineering written by and published by Academic Press. This book was released on 2009-03-30 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The cross-fertilization of physico-chemical and mathematical ideas has a long historical tradition. This volume of Advances in Chemical Engineering is almost completely dedicated to a conference on "Mathematics in Chemical Kinetics and Engineering (MaCKiE-2007), which was held in Houston in February 2007, bringing together about 40 mathematicians, chemists, and chemical engineers from 10 countries to discuss the application and development of mathematical tools in their respective fields. - Updates and informs the reader on the latest research findings using original reviews - Written by leading industry experts and scholars - Reviews and analyzes developments in the field

Download or read book Supramolecular Nanomaterials for Engineering Drug Delivery and Medical Applications written by Yohann Corvis and published by Frontiers Media SA. This book was released on 2021-01-21 with total page 107 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Self Assembly in Supramolecular Systems written by Ian M Atkinson and published by Royal Society of Chemistry. This book was released on 2007-10-31 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Molecular self-assembly is a widespread phenomenon in both chemistry and biochemistry. Yet it was not until the rise of supramolecular chemistry that attention has increasingly been given to the designed self-assembly of a variety of synthetic molecules and ions. To a large extent, success in this area has reflected knowledge gained from nature. However, an increased awareness of the latent steric and electronic information implanted in individual molecular components has also contributed to this success. Whilst not yet approaching the sophistication of biological assemblies, synthetic systems of increasing subtlety and considerable aesthetic appeal have been created. Self-Assembly in Supramolecular Systems surveys highlights of the progress made in the creation of discrete synthetic assemblies and provides a foundation for new workers in the area, as well as background reading for experienced supramolecular chemists.