Design of Self-Assembling Materials

✍ Scribed by Ivan Coluzza

• Publisher: Springer International Publishing
• Year: 2017
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 139
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book provides in-depth insights into assembling dynamics of proteins, DNA and other nanoparticles. The applications of basic knowledge in the development of artificial self-assembling systems will be discussed and state of the art methodology in the field will be presented.This interdisciplinary work brings together aspects of different fields of expertise such as Biology, Physics and Material Sciences and is intended for researchers, professors and graduate students interested in the design of self-assembling materials.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter ....Pages i-ix
Design of Polymeric Self-Assembling Materials and Nanocomposites in the Semi-dilute Density Regime: Multiscale Modeling (Barbara Capone, Emanuele Locatelli)....Pages 1-45
Modeling the Effective Interactions Between Heterogeneously Charged Colloids to Design Responsive Self-assembled Materials (Emanuela Bianchi)....Pages 47-70
A Nucleotide-Level Computational Approach to DNA-Based Materials (Flavio Romano, Lorenzo Rovigatti)....Pages 71-90
Experimental Study of Self-Assembling Systems Characterized by Directional Interactions (Peter van Oostrum)....Pages 91-106
Multi-Scale Approach for Self-Assembly and Protein Folding (Oriol Vilanova, Valentino Bianco, Giancarlo Franzese)....Pages 107-128
Back Matter ....Pages 129-132

✦ Subjects

Biomedicine; Biomedical Engineering/Biotechnology; Biochemical Engineering; Nanotechnology; Biological and Medical Physics, Biophysics; Polymer Sciences