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The Elsevier book series Advances in Biomembranes and Lipid Self-Assembly (previously titled Advances in Planar Lipid Bilayers and Liposomes), provides a global platform for a b… Read more
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The Elsevier book series Advances in Biomembranes and Lipid Self-Assembly (previously titled Advances in Planar Lipid Bilayers and Liposomes), provides a global platform for a broad community of experimental and theoretical researchers studying cell membranes, lipid model membranes, and lipid self-assemblies from the micro- to the nanoscale. Planar lipid bilayers are widely studied due to their ubiquity in nature and find their application in the formulation of biomimetic model membranes and in the design of artificial dispersion of liposomes.
Moreover, lipids self-assemble into a wide range of other structures including micelles and the liquid crystalline hexagonal and cubic phases. Consensus has been reached that curved membrane phases do play an important role in nature as well, especially in dynamic processes such as vesicles fusion and cell communication. Self-assembled lipid structures have enormous potential as dynamic materials ranging from artificial lipid membranes to cell membranes, from biosensing to controlled drug delivery, from pharmaceutical formulations to novel food products to mention a few. An assortment of chapters in this volume represents both original research as well as comprehensive reviews written by world leading experts and young researchers.
experts in the field of chemistry, physics and biology of lipid micro- and nano- structures and biological membranes, and a podium for non-specialists working on the interdisciplinary front
Chapter One: The Importance of Planarity for Lipid Bilayers as Biomembranes
Chapter Two: Interaction of Cells and Platelets with Biomaterial Surfaces Treated with Gaseous Plasma
Chapter Three: Competition Between Electrostatic and Thermodynamic Casimir Potentials in Near-Critical Mixtures with Ions
Chapter Four: Effect of Dendrimers and Dendriplexes on Model Lipid Membranes
Chapter Five: The Membrane Bending Modulus in Experiments and Simulations: A Puzzling Picture
Chapter Six: Bicontinuous Phases of Lyotropic Liquid Crystals
Chapter Seven: Peculiarities in the Study of Preformed DSPC Lipid Vesicles by Coarse Grain Molecular Dynamics
Chapter Eight: Extracellular Vesicles in Cancer
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