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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.

Feature:

Groundbreaking investigation into the recent advances and future direction of nanobiotechnology

Experimental strategies used by leaders at the cutting-edge of the field

Holds interest for researchers in a variety of fields, from engineering to physics and chemistry to biology

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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.

Contents:

Table of contents:

Preface

A. Introduction
1. Nanobiotechnology Overview by Oded Shoseyov and Ilan Levy

B. Biotemplating
2. Experimental Strategies Towards the Use of the Porin MspA as a
Nanotemplate and for Biosensors by Stefan H. Bossmann, Katharine
Janik, Megh Raj Pokhrel, and Michael Niederweis
3. Bionanotechnology and Bonanoscience of Artificial Bioassemblies by
Steven S. Smith and Katarzyna Lamparska-Kupsik
4. Genetically Engineered S-Layer Proteins and S-Layer-Specific
Heteropolysaccharides as Components of a Versatile Molecular
Construction Kit for Applications in Nanobiotechnology by Margit Sára,
Eva-Maria Egelseer, Dietmar Pum, Bernhard Schuster, and Uwe B. Sleytr

C. Bionanoelectronics and Nanocomputing
5. Photoinduced Electron Transport in DNA: Towards Electronic Devices
Based on DNA Architecture by Hans-Achim Wagenknecht
6. Effective Models for Charge Transport in DNA Nanowires by Rafael
Gutierrez and Gianaurelio Cuniberti
7. Optimizing Photoactive Proteins for Optoelectronic Environments by
Using Directed Evolution by Jason R. Hillebrecht, Jeremy F.
Koscielecki, Kevin J. Wise, Mark P. Krebs, Jeffrey A. Stuart, and
Robert R. Birge
8. DNA-Based Nanoelectronics by Rosa Di Felice and Danny Porath
9. Electrical Manipulation of DNA on Metal Surfaces by Marc Tornow,
Kenji Arinaga, and Ulrich Rant
10. Nanocomputing by Jennifer Sager, Joseph Farfel, and Darko Stefanovic
11. Biomolecular Automata by Natasa Jonoska

D. Nanomedicine, Nanopharmaceuticals and Nanosensing
12. Nanomedicine by Kewal K. Jain
13. Nano-Sized Carriers for Drug Delivery by Sanjeeb K. Sahoo, Tapan K.
Jain, Maram K. Reddy, and Vinod Labhasetwar
14. Gene and Drug Delivery System with Soluble Inorganic Carriers by
Jin-Ho Choy and Man Park
15. Molecules, Cells, Materials and Systems Design Based on
Nano-Biotechnology for Use in Bioanalytical Technology byTetsuya
Haruyama

E. De-Novo Designed Structures
16. Self-Assembly of Short Peptides for Nanotechnological Applications
by Ehud Gazit
17. Nanotube Membranes for Biotechnology by Lane A. Baker and Charles
R. Martin
18. Engineering a Molecular Railroad by Russell J. Stewart and Loren
Limberis
19. Water-based Nanotechnology: What if we could dope water? by Andreas
Kage and Eran Gabbai