Soft Matter Systems for Biomedical Applications

This book addresses new challenges in soft matter and colloids. It presents timely reports on colloidal self-assembly, soft matters from liquid crystals, nanoparticles in liquid crystals, hydrocolloids, hybrid nanosystems, nanosuspensions, and dispersion of nanoparticles in different media, soft matter processing and modern experiments related with soft matters.

Inhalt
Part I Fundamentals of Soft Matter Systems.- 1. Water Contribution to the Protein Folding and its Relevance in Protein Design and Protein Aggregation.- 2. Slow Dynamics of Biological Water.- 3. Molecular Perspective on Solutions and Liquid Mixtures from Modelling & Experiment.- 4. Lyotropic Liquid Crystal Phases of Phospholipids as Model Tools in Molecular Biophysics and Pharmacology.- 5. Colloidal Particles in Confined and Deformed Nematic Liquid Crystals: Electrostatic Analogy and its Implications.- Part II Mechanisms and Molecular Interactions.- 6. DNA-polyamine Interactions: Insight From Molecular Dynamics Simulations on the Sequence-specific Binding of Spermidine3+.- 7. The Influence of Sequence Dependence and External Solvents on DNA Conformation.- 8. Mechanisms of Heteroassociation of Ceftriaxone and Doxorubicin Drugs with Bovine Serum Albumin.- 9. Manifestation of Structural Isomerism in the Raman Spectra of Platinum Drugs.- 10. Approaches for a Closer Look at Problems of Liquid Membranes with Amyloid-Beta Peptides.- 11. Analysis of Natural and Engineered Amyloid Aggregates by Spectroscopic and Scattering Techniques.- Part III Magnetic Field Effects.- 12. Liquid Biosystems in Gradient Magnetic Fields: Electrokinetic, Magnetophoretic and Orientation Effects.- 13. Magnetic fluids in biosciences, biotechnology and environmental technology.- Part IV Nanosystems and Nanomaterials for Biomedical applications.- 14. Smart Polymer-Based Multicomponent Nanosystems for Enhanced Anticancer Photodynamic Therapy.- 15. Biomedical Applications of Laponite®-based Nanomaterials and Formulations.