Soft Matter Systems for Biomedical Applications

ISBN-13: 9783030809232 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 463 str.

Leonid Bulavin; Nikolai Lebovka

Spis treści

Part I Fundamentals of Soft Matter Systems.- 1. Water Contribution to the Protein Folding and its Relevance in Protein Design and Protein Aggregation.- 2. Slow Dynamics of Biological Water.- 3. Molecular Perspective on Solutions and Liquid Mixtures from Modelling & Experiment.- 4. Lyotropic Liquid Crystal Phases of Phospholipids as Model Tools in Molecular Biophysics and Pharmacology.- 5. Colloidal Particles in Confined and Deformed Nematic Liquid Crystals: Electrostatic Analogy and its Implications.- Part II Mechanisms and Molecular Interactions.- 6. DNA-polyamine Interactions: Insight From Molecular Dynamics Simulations on the Sequence-specific Binding of Spermidine3+.- 7. The Influence of Sequence Dependence and External Solvents on DNA Conformation.- 8. Mechanisms of Heteroassociation of Ceftriaxone and Doxorubicin Drugs with Bovine Serum Albumin.- 9. Manifestation of Structural Isomerism in the Raman Spectra of Platinum Drugs.- 10. Approaches for a Closer Look at Problems of Liquid Membranes with Amyloid-Beta Peptides.- 11. Analysis of Natural and Engineered Amyloid Aggregates by Spectroscopic and Scattering Techniques.-  Part III Magnetic Field Effects.- 12. Liquid Biosystems in Gradient Magnetic Fields: Electrokinetic, Magnetophoretic and Orientation Effects.- 13. Magnetic fluids in biosciences, biotechnology and environmental technology.- Part IV Nanosystems and Nanomaterials for Biomedical applications.- 14. Smart Polymer-Based Multicomponent Nanosystems for Enhanced Anticancer Photodynamic Therapy.- 15. Biomedical Applications of Laponite®-based Nanomaterials and Formulations.

Blurb

This book addresses new challenges in soft matter and colloids. It presents timely reports on colloidal self-assembly, soft matters from liquid crystals, nanoparticles in liquid crystals, hydrocolloids, hybrid nanosystems, nanosuspensions, and dispersion of nanoparticles in different media, soft matter processing and modern experiments related with soft matters.