ABSTRACT

This book is a survey on the theoretical as well as experimental results on nanostructures in biological systems. It shows how a unifying approach starting from single-particle energy, deriving free energy of the system and determining the equilibrium by minimizing the free energy, can be applied to describe electrical and elastic phenomena. It hel

chapter 3|12 pages

Lipid Vesicles as Experimental Tools

chapter 6|16 pages

Lipid Nanostructures

chapter 7|56 pages

Physics of Lipid Micro- and Nanostructures

chapter 8|26 pages

Membrane Nanodomains

chapter 9|28 pages

Tubular Budding of Biological Membranes

chapter 10|10 pages

Spherical Budding of Biological Membranes

chapter 12|14 pages

Exogenous Membrane-Attached Nanoparticles

chapter 13|44 pages

Electric Double Layer Theory

chapter 14|52 pages

Attraction between Like-Charged Surfaces