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Record Nr.

UNINA9910279577803321

Titolo

Design of Self-Assembling Materials / / edited by Ivan Coluzza

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2017

ISBN

3-319-71578-X

Edizione

[1st ed. 2017.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (IX, 132 p. 26 illus., 25 illus. in color.)

Disciplina

610.28

Soggetti

Biomedical engineering

Biochemical engineering

Nanotechnology

Biophysics

Polymers

Biomedical Engineering/Biotechnology

Biochemical Engineering

Biological and Medical Physics, Biophysics

Polymer Sciences

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Design of Polymeric Self-Assembling Materials and Nanocomposites in the semi-dilute density regime: Multiscale Modeling -- Modeling the effective interactions between heterogeneously charged colloids to design responsive self-assembled materials -- A mesoscopic computational approach to DNA-based materials -- Experimental study of self-assembling systems characterized by directional interactions -- Multi-scale approach for self-Assembly and protein folding.

Sommario/riassunto

This book provides in-depth insights into assembling dynamics of proteins, DNA and other nanoparticles. The applications of basic knowledge in the development of artificial self-assembling systems will be discussed and state of the art methodology in the field will be presented.This interdisciplinary work brings together aspects of different fields of expertise such as Biology, Physics and Material Sciences and is intended for researchers, professors and graduate



students interested in the design of self-assembling materials.