Forces, Growth and Form in Soft Condensed Matter: At the Interface between Physics and Biology

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Skjeltorp, A. T. (Editor), Belushkin, A. V. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2005.
• Series: NATO Science Series II: Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry, 160
• Subjects: Physics.; Polymers.; Condensed matter.; Biophysics.; Biological physics.; Materials science.; Condensed Matter Physics.; Biophysics and Biological Physics.; Characterization and Evaluation of Materials.; Polymer Sciences.

This volume comprises the proceedings of a NATO Advanced Study Institute held at Geilo, Norway, 24 March - 3 April 2003, the seventeenth ASI in a series held every two years since 1971. The objective of this ASI was to identify and discuss areas where synergism between modern physics, soft condensed...

Table of Contents:

• The Physico-Chemical Basis of Self-Assembling Structures
• Supramolecular Assembly of Biological Molecules
• Simple Examples of Cell Motility
• Statistical Physics of Unzipping DNA
• Can Theory Predict Two-State Protein Folding Rates? An Experimental Perspective
• Copolymers with Long-Range Correlations: Sequence Design Near a Surface
• Novel approach to the study of rotational and translational diffusion in crystals
• The Bacterial Flagellar Motor
• Self-Assembly and Dynamics of Magnetic Holes
• Structures in Molecular Networks
• Oscillating Gene Expressions in Regulatory Networks
• Transport Properties of Segmented Polymers and Non-Spherical Nanoparticles Studied by Brownian Dynamics Simulations
• Cytokinesis: The Initial Linear Phase Crosses Over to a Multiplicity of Non-Linear Endings
• Information Dynamics in Living Systems.