Physics of Biomaterials: Fluctuations, Selfassembly and Evolution -

Physics of Biomaterials: Fluctuations, Selfassembly and Evolution

T. Riste, David Sherrington (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover
378 Seiten
1996
Springer (Verlag)
978-0-7923-4131-4 (ISBN)
160,49 inkl. MwSt
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 and phase transitions. The present book addresses both the structure and motion of biological materials and the increasingly complex behaviour that arises out of interactions in large systems, giving rise to self organization, adaptation, selection and evolution: concepts of interest not only to biology and living systems but also within condensed matter physics.
The approach adopted by Physics of Biomaterials: Fluctuations, Self Assembly and Evolution is tutorial, but the book is fully up to date with the latest research. Written at a level appropriate to graduate researchers, preferably with a background either in condensed matter physics or theoretical or physically-oriented experimental biology.

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.

Reihe/Serie NATO Science Series E ; 322
Zusatzinfo XVIII, 378 p.
Verlagsort Dordrecht
Sprache englisch
Maße 155 x 235 mm
Themenwelt Naturwissenschaften Physik / Astronomie Atom- / Kern- / Molekularphysik
Naturwissenschaften Physik / Astronomie Festkörperphysik
Naturwissenschaften Physik / Astronomie Thermodynamik
ISBN-10 0-7923-4131-7 / 0792341317
ISBN-13 978-0-7923-4131-4 / 9780792341314
Zustand Neuware
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