Engineering Aspects of Self-Organizing Materials

✍ Scribed by Rudy J. Koopmans (Eds.)

Publisher: Elsevier/Academic Press
Year: 2009
Tongue: English
Leaves: 247
Series: Advances in Chemical Engineering 35
Category: Library

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✦ Table of Contents

Content:
Series Editors
Page ii

Volume Editor
Page iii

Copyright
Page iv

Contributors
Pages vii-viii

Preface
Pages ix-x
Rudy Koopmans

Acknowledgments
Page xi

Chapter 1 - Engineering Materials from the Bottom Up – Overview
Pages 1-10
Rudy J. Koopmans, Anton P.J. Middelberg

Chapter 2 - Mechanisms and Principles of 1D Self-Assembly of Peptides into β-Sheet Tapes
Pages 11-43
Robert P.W. Davies, Amalia Aggeli, Neville Boden, Tom C.B. McLeish, Irena A. Nyrkova, Alexander N. Semenov

Chapter 3 - Nucleation and Co-Operativity in Supramolecular Polymers
Pages 45-77
Paul van der Schoot

Chapter 4 - Recombinant Production of Self-Assembling Peptides
Pages 79-117
Michael J. McPherson, Kier James, Stuart Kyle, Stephen Parsons, Jessica Riley

Chapter 5 - Inspiration from Natural Silks and Their Proteins
Pages 119-160
Boxun Leng, Lei Huang, Zhengzhong Shao

Chapter 6 - Surface- and Solution-Based Assembly of Amyloid Fibrils for Biomedical and Nanotechnology Applications
Pages 161-209
Sally L. Gras

Chapter 7 - Hybrid Systems Engineering: Polymer–Peptide Conjugates
Pages 211-222
Conan J. Fee

Subject Index
Pages 223-234

Contents of Volumes in this Serial
Pages 235-243

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