NanoBioTechnology

NanoBioTechnology: BioInspired Devices and Materials of the Future is a groundbreaking text that will assist scientists and students in learning the fundamentals and cutting-edge nature of this new and emerging science. Focusing on materials and building blocks for nanotechnology, leading scientists from around the world share their knowledge and expertise in this authoritative volume. The volume is broken into five sections. The first section presents an overview of nanotechnology and describes the many aspects of the field. Section 2 details biological materials serving as nanotemplates for bottom-up fabrication. Section 3 covers the use of biological macromolecules for electron transfer and computation. Section 4 presents a brief overview of the extensive and rapidly growing field of nanomedicine. Finally, Section 5 details de-novo designed structures and the various approaches different scientific groups take with molecular level training and language. Authoritative and comprehensive, NanoBioTechnology: BioInspired Devices and Materials of the Future provides an extraordinary and thorough overview of the emerging field of nanobiotechnology for engineers and physicists, chemists and biologists, and others from many diverse fields. TOC:Nanobiotechnology Overview.- Experimental Strategies Towards the Use of the Porin MspA as a Nanotemplate and for Biosensors.- Bionanotechnology and Bonanoscience of Artificial Bioassemblies.- Genetically Engineered S-Layer Proteins and S-Layer-Specific Heteropolysaccharides as Components of a Versatile Molecular Construction Kit for Applications in Nanobiotechnology.- Photoinduced Electron Transport in DNA: Towards Electronic Devices Based on DNA Architecture.- Effective Models for Charge Transport in DNA Nanowires.- Optimizing Photoactive Proteins for Optoelectronic Environments by Using Directed Evolution.- DNA-Based Nanoelectronics.- Electrical Manipulation of DNA on Metal Surfaces.- Nanocomputing.- Biomolecular Automata.- Nanomedicine.- Nano-Sized Carriers for Drug Delivery.- Gene and Drug Delivery System with Soluble Inorganic Carriers.- Molecules, Cells, Materials and Systems Design Based on Nano-Biotechnology for Use in Bioanalytical Technology.- Self-Assembly of Short Peptides for Nanotechnological Applications.- Nanotube Membranes for Biotechnology.- Engineering a Molecular Railroad.- Water-based Nanotechnology: What if we could dope water?.