Physics of Biomaterials: Fluctuations, Selfassembly and Evolution

Physics of Biomaterials: Fluctuations, Selfassembly and Evolution edited by T. Riste, David Sherrington.

Recent years have seen a growing interest in and activity at the interface between physics and biology, with the realization that both subjects have a great deal to learn from and to teach to one another. A particularly promising aspect of this interface concerns the area of cooperative phenomena an...

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Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Riste, T. (Editor), Sherrington, David (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 1996.
Edition:1st ed. 1996.
Series:Nato Science Series E:, Applied Sciences, 322
Springer eBook Collection.
Subjects:
Condensed matter.
Biophysics.
Biological physics.
Evolutionary biology.
Biochemistry.
Statistical physics.
Dynamical systems.
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Table of Contents:
  • to the physics of biomaterials: The role of membranes
  • What does neutron spectroscopy tell on the dynamics of amphiphilic layers?
  • Physical aspects of adhesion of leukocytes
  • Membrane-associated-proteins: Self-assembly, interactions, and biomolecular materials
  • Collective phenomena in mitosis: A physicist’s perspective
  • Mechanical forces in the biological world
  • A biosensor that monitors mammalian cells with electrical fields
  • Knots and applications to biology, chemistry and physics
  • Statistical and linguistic features of DNA sequences
  • The basics of protein folding physics
  • Evolutionary mechanisms involved in the formation of tandem repetitive non-coding DNA
  • Molecular evolutionary biology
  • Fitness landscapes and evolution
  • Statistical physics of neural networks
  • The evolution of complexity in metazoans
  • Extremal dynamics and punctuated equilibrium in co-evolution.

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