Biopolymers At Interfaces

Macromolecular adsorption - a brief introduction; driving forces for protein adsorption at solid surfaces; thermodynamics of adsorption of amino acids, small peptides, and nucleic acid components on silica adsorbents; quantitative modelling of protein adsorption; interfacial behaviour of protein mutants and variants; proteins on surfaces - methodologies for surface preparation and engineering protein function; local and global optical spectroscopic probes of adsorbed proteins; orientation and activity of immobilized antibodies; interactions between surfaces coated with carbohydrates, glycolipids, and glycoproteins; kinetics of protein adsorption; mobility of biomolecules at interfaces; protein adsorption in relation to solution association and aggregation; mechanism of interfacial exchange phenomena for proteins adsorbed at solid-liquid interfaces; interactions between proteins with polymeric synthetic membranes; protein adsorption in intravenous drug delivery; control of protein adsorption in solid-phase diagnostics and therapeutics; studies on the conformation of adsorbed proteins with the use of nanoparticle technology.