Handbook of Lipid Membranes (eBook, PDF)

Molecular, Functional, and Materials Aspects
Redaktion: Safinya, Cyrus R.; Rädler, Joachim O.

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This Handbook provides a comprehensive overview of lipid membrane fundamentals and applications. It gives the fundamental physical and biochemical aspects of membrane-related processes in living cells, and then relates them to how scientists are building bioinspired, artifical membrane-based systems.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 376
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. September 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781466555730
• Artikelnr.: 62321923

Autorenporträt

Cyrus R. Safinya is professor of physics at the University of California, Santa Barbara, USA. Joachim O. Rädler is professor of experimental physics at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface. Editors. Contributors. Chapter 1 A Short History of Membrane
Physics. Chapter 2 Structures and Interactions in Freely Suspended
Multilayer Membranes and Dilute Lamellar Fluid Membranes from Synchrotron
X-Ray Scattering. Chapter 3 Structures of Lipid Membranes: Cubic and
Inverse Hexagonal Phases. Chapter 4 Structure of Lipid Membranes by
Advanced X-Ray Scattering and Imaging. Chapter 5 Adhesion Protein
Architecture and Intermembrane Potentials: Force Measurements and
Biological Significance. Chapter 6 Charged Membranes: Poisson¿Boltzmann
Theory, the DLVO Paradigm, and Beyond. Chapter 7 Membrane Shape Evolution
In Vitro. Chapter 8 Mechanisms of Membrane Curvature Generation by Peptides
and Proteins: A Unified Perspective on Antimicrobial Peptides. Chapter 9
Lipid Membrane Shape Evolution and the Actin Cytoskeleton. Chapter 10
Effects of Osmotic Stress on Topologically Closed Membrane Compartments.
Chapter 11 Cationic Liposomes as Spatial Organizers of Nucleic Acids in
One, Two, and Three Dimensions: Liquid Crystal Phases with Applications in
Delivery and Bionanotechnology. Chapter 12 Lipids in DNA, RNA, and Peptide
Delivery for In Vivo Therapeutic Applications. Chapter 13 Electrostatics of
Lipid Membranes Interacting with Oppositely Charged Macromolecules.
Chapter 14 Lipid-Based Bioanalytical Sensors. Chapter 15 Lipids in Dermal
Applications: Cosmetics and Pharmaceutics. Chapter 16 Supported Lipid
Bilayers. Chapter 17 Artificial Membranes Composed of Synthetic
Copolypeptides. Chapter 18 Synthetic Membranes from Block Copolymers,
Recombinant Proteins, and Dendrimers. Chapter 19 Amphiphilic Self-Assembly
and the Origin of Life in Hydrothermal Conditions. Index.