Measuring Biological Impacts of Nanomaterials

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Wegener, Joachim (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2016.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2016.
• Series: Bioanalytical Reviews, 5
• Subjects: Chemistry.; Analytical chemistry.; Biotechnology.; Nanochemistry.; Biochemistry.; Biophysics.; Biological physics.; Analytical Chemistry.; Biochemistry, general.; Biomedicine general.; Biophysics and Biological Physics.

This book reviews several aspects of the biological response to nanoscale particles on a molecular and cellular level. Nanoscale materials and nanoscale particles in particular have interesting properties and beneficial applications. While they thus have entered our daily lifes on many different lev...

Table of Contents:

• Standardized Physical Characterization of Nanoscale Particles: Towards a Bar Code for Nanomaterials
• Bioanalytical Aspects for the detection of nanoparticle effects on cells
• Interactions of Nanoscale Particles with the Air-Water Interface: Implications for Lung Effects of Nanomaterials
• Carbon Dots: Synthesis, Characterization and Bioanalytical Applications
• Changes in Motility of Cultured Cells caused by Nanoparticle Encounter
• Cellular Response to Nano- and Mesoscale Particles probed by Label-free Detection Techniques.