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Molecular Forces and Self Assembly

In Colloid, Nano Sciences and Biology

By: B. W. Ninham,Pierandrea Lo Nostro

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Molecular Forces and Self Assembly

In Colloid, Nano Sciences and Biology

By: B. W. Ninham,Pierandrea Lo Nostro

Challenging the cherished notions of colloidal theory, Barry Ninham and Pierandrea Lo Nostro confront the scientific lore of molecular forces and colloidal science in an incisive and thought-provoking manner. Throughout the book, they question assumptions, unearth flaws and present new results and ideas. With mathematics kept to a minimum and historic facts and anecdotes woven through the text, this is a highly engaging and readable treatment for students and researchers in science and engineering." --Book Jacket.

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The Language of Shape

The Role of Curvature in Condensed Matter: Physics, Chemistry and Biology

By: S. Hyde,Z. Blum,T. Landh,S. Lidin,B.W. Ninham,S. Andersson,K. Larsson

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The Language of Shape

The Role of Curvature in Condensed Matter: Physics, Chemistry and Biology

By: S. Hyde,Z. Blum,T. Landh,S. Lidin,B.W. Ninham,S. Andersson,K. Larsson

This book develops the thesis that structure and function in a variety of condensed systems - from the atomic assemblies in inorganic frameworks and organic molecules, through molecular self-assemblies to proteins - can be unified when curvature and surface geometry are taken together with molecular shape and forces. An astonishing variety of synthetic and biological assemblies can be accurately modelled and understood in terms of hyperbolic surfaces, whose richness and beauty are only now being revealed by applied mathematicians, physicists, chemists and crystallographers. These surfaces, often close to periodic minimal surfaces, weave and twist through space, carving out interconnected labyrinths whose range of topologies and symmetries challenge the imaginative powers.The book offers an overview of these structures and structural transformations, convincingly demonstrating their ubiquity in covalent frameworks from zeolites used for cracking oil and pollution control to enzymes and structural proteins, thermotropic and lyotropic bicontinuous mesophases formed by surfactants, detergents and lipids, synthetic block copolymer and protein networks, as well as biological cell assemblies, from muscles to membranes in prokaryotic and eukaryotic cells. The relation between structure and function is analysed in terms of the previously neglected hidden variables of curvature and topology. Thus, the catalytic activity of zeolites and enzymes, the superior material properties of interpenetrating networks in microstructured polymer composites, the transport requirements in cells, the transmission of nerve signals and the folding of DNA can be more easily understood in the light of this.The text is liberally sprinkled with figures and colour plates, making it accessible to both the beginning graduate student and researchers in condensed matter physics and chemistry, mineralogists, crystallographers and biologists.

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Molecular Forces and Self Assembly

In Colloid, Nano Sciences and Biology

By: B. W. Ninham,Pierandrea Lo Nostro

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In Colloid, Nano Sciences and Biology

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The Language of Shape

The Role of Curvature in Condensed Matter: Physics, Chemistry and Biology

By: S. Hyde,Z. Blum,T. Landh,S. Lidin,B.W. Ninham,S. Andersson,K. Larsson

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The Language of Shape

The Role of Curvature in Condensed Matter: Physics, Chemistry and Biology

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Molecular Forces and Self Assembly

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The Language of Shape

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Molecular Forces and Self Assembly

Molecular Forces and Self Assembly

The Language of Shape

The Language of Shape

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