An overview of recent, previously unpublished experimental and theoretical developments in the field of the physics of membranes, including new insights from the past decade.
The author uses classical thermal physics and physical chemistry to explain our current understanding of the membrane.
Aktuellste Forschungsergebnisse auf dem Gebiet der Membranphysik, darunter bislang unpublizierte Arbeiten, wurden in diesem Band für Studenten und Forscher der Biophysik, Biochemie, Physikochemie und Physik ausgewählt und zusammengefasst.
1. Membranes: An Introduction2. Membrane Structure3. The Composition of Biological Membranes4. Introduction into Thermodynamics5. Water6. Lipid Melting7. Phase Diagrams8. Statistical Models for Lipid Melting9. Lipid-Protein Interactions10. Diffusion11. Electrostatics12. Adsorption, Binding and Insertion of Proteins13. Elasticity and Curvature14. Thermodynamics of the Elastic Constants15. Structural Transitions16. Relaxation Processes in Membranes17. Permeability18. Nerve Pulse Propagation19. Anesthesia
Thomas Heimburg received his Ph.D. in physics and his habilitation in biophysics both from the Physics Department of the University of Göttingen, Germany. He was a Heisenberg Fellow of the German Research Council (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft) at the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry in Göttingen and head of the independent research group "Membrane Biophysics & Thermodynamics". He was appointed associate professor in the Physics Department of the University of Göttingen. Now he is associate professor for biophysics at the Niels Bohr Institute of the University of Copenhagen and head of the Membrane Biophysics Group.His primary research interests are experimental and theoretical thermodynamics and spectroscopy of artificial and biological membranes with a special focus on cooperative phenomena in biomembranes.
Über den Autor
Thomas Heimburg received his Ph.D. in physics and his habilitation in biophysics both from the Physics Department of the University of Göttingen, Germany. He was a Heisenberg Fellow of the German Research Council (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft) at the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry in Göttingen and head of the independent research group "Membrane Biophysics & Thermodynamics". He was appointed associate professor in the Physics Department of the University of Göttingen. Now he is associate professor for biophysics at the Niels Bohr Institute of the University of Copenhagen and head of the Membrane Biophysics Group.
His primary research interests are experimental and theoretical thermodynamics and spectroscopy of artificial and biological membranes with a special focus on cooperative phenomena in biomembranes.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
1. Membranes: An Introductionn2. Membrane Structuren3. The Composition of Biological Membranesn4. Introduction into Thermodynamicsn5. Watern6. Lipid Meltingn7. Phase Diagramsn8. Statistical Models for Lipid Meltingn9. Lipid-Protein Interactionsn10. Diffusionn11. Electrostaticsn12. Adsorption, Binding and Insertion of Proteinsn13. Elasticity and Curvaturen14. Thermodynamics of the Elastic Constantsn15. Structural Transitionsn16. Relaxation Processes in Membranesn17. Permeabilityn18. Nerve Pulse Propagationn19. Anesthesiann
Klappentext
Aktuellste Forschungsergebnisse auf dem Gebiet der Membranphysik, darunter bislang unpublizierte Arbeiten, wurden in diesem Band für Studenten und Forscher der Biophysik, Biochemie, Physikochemie und Physik ausgewählt und zusammengefasst. nn