โ Scribed by Skjeltorp A., Belushkin A. (eds.)
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The book reviews the current experimental and theoretical knowledge of the synergism between modern physics, soft condensed matter and biology, presenting a thorough discussion of the relative role of the various fundamental interactions in such systems: electrostatic, hydrophobic, steric, conformational, van der Waals, etc. These competing interactions influence the form and topology of soft and biological matter, like polymers and proteins, leading to hierarchical structures in self-assembling systems and folding patterns sometimes described in terms of chirality, braids and knots. Finally, the competing interactions influence various bioprocesses like genetic regulation and biological evolution taking place in systems like biopolymers, macromolecules and cell membranes. The authors include theoretical physicists, soft condensed matter experimentalists, biological physicists, and molecular biologists - all leaders in their respective fields. Aside from the need to gain new, fundamental insights, the subject area is also of great importance for many applications, in that self-assembly and hierarchical assembly are important features to achieve functionality on multiple length scales. Applications range from the nanoscopic (e.g., biomolecular material and copolymeric mesophases) to the microscopic (all organic microelectronics) to the macroscopic (high-performance structural composites).
Preliminaries......Page 1
CONTENTS......Page 6
Preface......Page 8
Organizing committee and participants......Page 10
The physico-chemical basis of self-assembling structures......Page 20
Supramolecular assembly of biological molecules......Page 48
Simple examples of cell motility......Page 70
Statistical physics of unzipping DNA......Page 84
Can theory predict two-state protein folding rates? An experimental perspective......Page 112
Copolymers with long-range correlations: Sequence design near a surface......Page 132
Novel approach to the study of rotational and translational diffusion in crystals......Page 154
The bacterial flagellar motor......Page 164
Self-assembly and dynamics of magnetic holes......Page 184
Structures in molecular networks......Page 200
Oscillating gene expressions in regulatory networks......Page 214
Transport properties of segmented polymers and non-spherical nanoparticles studied by Brownian dynamics simulations......Page 222
Cytokinesis......Page 236
Information dynamics in living systems......Page 254
Index......Page 262
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