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  title info:
    title: Theoretical Molecular Biophysics
  name:
    name part: Scherer, Philipp O.J.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Fischer, Sighart F.
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: gw
    date issued: 2017
    edition: 2nd ed. 2017.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XVI, 513 p. 226 illus., 27 illus. in color. online resource.
  abstract: This book gives an introduction to molecular biophysics. It starts from material properties at equilibrium related to polymers, dielectrics and membranes. Electronic spectra are developed for the understanding of elementary dynamic processes in photosynthesis including proton transfer and dynamics of molecular motors. Since the molecular structures of functional groups of bio-systems were resolved, it has become feasible to develop a theory based on the quantum theory and statistical physics with emphasis on the specifics of the high complexity of bio-systems. This introduction to molecular aspects of the field focuses on solvable models. Elementary biological processes provide as special challenge the presence of partial disorder in the structure which does not destroy the basic reproducibility of the processes. Apparently the elementary molecular processes are organized in a way to optimize the efficiency. Learning from nature by means exploring the relation between structure and function may even help to build better artificial solar cells. The reader is exposed to basic concepts in modern biophysics, such as entropic forces, phase separation, potential of mean force, electron and proton transfer, heterogeneous reactions, coherent and incoherent energy transfer as well as molecular motors. Basic knowledge in classical and Quantum mechanics, electrostatics and statistical physics is desirable. Simplified models are presented which can be solved in limited cases analytically from the guiding lines to generate the basis for a fundamental understanding of the more complex biophysical systems. Chapters close with challenging problems whose solutions are provided at the end of the book to complete the pedagogical treatment in the book. To the second edition several new chapters were added. The medium polarization is treated self-consistently using basic elements of polaron theory and more advanced nonlinear Schrödinger equations to describe the dynamics of solvation. I…
  table of contents: Statistical Mechanics of Biopolymers -- Protein Electrostatics and Solvation -- Reaction Kinetics -- Transport Processes -- Reaction Rate Theory -- Elementary Photophysics -- Elementary Photoinduced Processes -- Molecular Motor Models.
  note: by Philipp O.J. Scherer, Sighart F. Fischer.
  subject:
    topic: Physics
  subject:
    topic: Biochemical engineering
  subject:
    topic: Proteins
  subject:
    topic: Biomathematics
  subject:
    topic: Biomedical engineering
  subject:
    topic: Physics
  subject:
    topic: Biological and Medical Physics, Biophysics
  subject:
    topic: Mathematical and Computational Biology
  subject:
    topic: Biomedical Engineering
  subject:
    topic: Protein Science
  subject:
    topic: Biochemical Engineering
  classification: QH505
  classification: 571.4
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    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
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    title info:
      title: Biological and Medical Physics, Biomedical Engineering
  identifier: 9783662556719
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-55671-9
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    record creation date: 171122
    record change date: 20171122121556.0
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