NanoBioTechnology : bioinspired devices and materials of the future /

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Imprint:Totowa, N.J. : Humana Press, c2008.
Description:xi, 485 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language:English
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Format: E-Resource Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/6672946
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Other authors / contributors:Shoseyov, Oded.
Levy, Ilan.
ISBN:9781588298942 (alk. paper)
1588298949 (alk. paper)
9781597452182 (eISBN)
1597452181 (eISBN)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • Contributors
  • Part I. Introduction
  • 1. Nanobiotechnology Overview
  • Part II. Biotemplating
  • 2. Experimental Strategies Toward the Use of the Porin MspA as a Nanotemplate and for Biosensors
  • 3. Bionanotechnology and Bionanoscience of Artificial Bioassemblies
  • 4. Genetically Engineered S-Layer Proteins and S-Layer-Specific Heteropolysaccharides as Components of a Versatile Molecular Construction Kit for Applications in Nanobiotechnology
  • Part III. Bionanoelectronics and Nanocomputing
  • 5. Photoinduced Electron Transport in DNA: Toward Electronic Devices Based on DNA Architecture
  • 6. Effective Models for Charge Transport in DNA Nanowires
  • 7. Optimizing Photoactive Proteins for Optoelectronic Environments by Using Directed Evolution
  • 8. DNA-Based Nanoelectronics
  • 9. Electrical Manipulation of DNA on Metal Surfaces
  • 10. Nanocomputing
  • 11. Biomolecular Automata
  • Part IV. Nanomedicine, Nanopharmaceuticals and Nanosensing
  • 12. Nanomedicine
  • 13. Nano-Sized Carriers for Drug Delivery
  • 14. Gene and Drug Delivery System with Soluble Inorganic Carriers
  • 15. Molecules, Cells, Materials, and Systems Design Based on NanoBiotechnology for Use in Bioanalytical Technology
  • Part V. De Novo Designed Structures
  • 16. Self-Assembly of Short Peptides for Nanotechnological Applications
  • 17. Nanotube Membranes for Biotechnology
  • 18. Engineering a Molecular Railroad
  • 19. Water-Based Nanotechnology: What if We Could Dope Water?
  • Index