The physics of living processes : a mesoscopic approach /
Waigh, Thomas A.,
The physics of living processes : a mesoscopic approach / Thomas Andrew Waigh, School of Physics and Astronomy and Photon science Institute, University of Manchester, UK. - xv, 599 pages : color illustrations ; 25 cm
Includes index.
Molecules -- Cells -- Introduction to statistics in biology -- Mesoscopic forces -- Phase transitions -- Liquid crystallinity -- Motility -- Aggregating self-assembly -- Surface phenomena -- Biomacromolecules -- Charged ions and polymers -- Membranes -- Continuum mechanics -- Fluid mechanics -- Rheology -- Motors -- Structural biomaterials -- Phase behaviour of DNA -- Experimental techniques -- Chemical kinetics -- Enzyme kinetics -- Introduction to systems biology -- Spikes -- Physiology of cells and organisms -- The senses -- Brains.
9781118449943 (pbk.)
2014014239
Biophysics.
Quantum biochemistry.
QH505 / WAI
571.4
The physics of living processes : a mesoscopic approach / Thomas Andrew Waigh, School of Physics and Astronomy and Photon science Institute, University of Manchester, UK. - xv, 599 pages : color illustrations ; 25 cm
Includes index.
Molecules -- Cells -- Introduction to statistics in biology -- Mesoscopic forces -- Phase transitions -- Liquid crystallinity -- Motility -- Aggregating self-assembly -- Surface phenomena -- Biomacromolecules -- Charged ions and polymers -- Membranes -- Continuum mechanics -- Fluid mechanics -- Rheology -- Motors -- Structural biomaterials -- Phase behaviour of DNA -- Experimental techniques -- Chemical kinetics -- Enzyme kinetics -- Introduction to systems biology -- Spikes -- Physiology of cells and organisms -- The senses -- Brains.
9781118449943 (pbk.)
2014014239
Biophysics.
Quantum biochemistry.
QH505 / WAI
571.4