Nanotechnology for Biology and Medicine At the Building Block Level /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Silva, Gabriel A. (Editor), Parpura, Vladimir (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York, 2012.
• Series: Fundamental Biomedical Technologies,
• Subjects: Medicine.; Biotechnology.; Biophysics.; Biological physics.; Nanotechnology.; Biomedicine.; Biomedicine general.; Biophysics and Biological Physics.

Nanotechnology for Biology and Medicine: At the Building Block Level introduces the reader to current cutting-edge approaches being pursued for the design and development of nanotechnology applications to different areas of biology and medicine. It discusses the key biological challenges at the mole...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Structure and biology of the cellular environment: The extracellular matrix.-  2. Synthesis and patterning methods for nanostructures useful for biological applications
• 3. Characterization of nanoscale biological systems: Multimodal Atomic Force microscopy for Nanoimaging, nanomechanics and biomolecular interactions
• 4. Molecular motors and machines
• 5. Micro and Nano Engineered Extracellular Matrices
• 6. Designer self-assembling peptide nanofiber scaffold
• 7. Quantum Dot Imaging of Neural Cells and Tissue
• 8. Quantum Dot Nanotechnologies for Neuroimaging
• 9.  Carbon nanotubes as electrical interfaces to neurons
• 10. Carbon nanotubes as modulators of neuronal growth.           .