Bio-Nanomaterials Designing Materials Inspired by Nature [Hardcover]

Written by authors from different fields to reflect the interdisciplinary nature of the topic, this book guides the reader through new nano-materials processing inspired by nature.
Structured around general principles, each selection and explanation is motivated by particular biological case studies. This provides the background for elucidating the particular principle in a second section. In the third part, examples for applying the principle to materials processing are given, while in a fourth subsection each chapter is supplemented by a selection of relevant experimental and theoretical techniques.
Molecular units
Molecular recognition
Cell adhesion
Whole- cell censor structures
Bio-hybrid silica-based materials
Biomineralization
Self- assembly

Wolfgang Pompe is retired professor of Materials Science at the Technische Universit?t Dresden, Germany. Having obtained his academic degrees in physics, he spent his main academic career in the Institute of Solid State Physics and Materials Research Dresden of the Academy of Sciences of the GDR, and since 1991 at the Technische Universit?t, with a 1.5 year stay as a visiting professor at the University of California Santa Barbara, USA.

Gerhard R?del is Head of the Institute of Genetics at the Technische Universit?t Dresden. He obtained his academic degrees from the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universit?t M?nchen, Germany, where he worked as Post-doc before taking up the appointment for a professorship in Molecular Biology and General Pathology at the Univerisity Ulm, Germany. In 1994, Professor R?del was appointed as Professor of Genetics at the Technische Universit?t Dresden. Since 2006 he is Speaker of the Dresden International Graduate School for Biomedicine and Bioengineering.

Michael Mertig is head of the BioNanotechnology and Structure Formation Group at the Max Bergmann Center oflC3