Main description:

NanoBiotechnology is a groundbreaking text investigating the recent advances and future direction of nanobiotechnology. It 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.

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 Sara,
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