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Advances in Chemical Engineering

Engineering Aspects of Self-Organising Materials

  • 1st Edition, Volume 35 - March 30, 2009
  • Latest edition
  • Editor: Rudy Koopmans
  • Language: English

The cross-fertilization of physico-chemical and mathematical ideas has a long historical tradition. This volume of Advances in Chemical Engineering is almost completely dedica… Read more

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Description

The cross-fertilization of physico-chemical and mathematical ideas has a long historical tradition. This volume of Advances in Chemical Engineering is almost completely dedicated to a conference on “Mathematics in Chemical Kinetics and Engineering” (MaCKiE-2007), which was held in Houston in February 2007, bringing together about 40 mathematicians, chemists, and chemical engineers from 10 countries to discuss the application and development of mathematical tools in their respective fields.

Key features

  • Updates and informs the reader on the latest research findings using original reviews
  • Written by leading industry experts and scholars
  • Reviews and analyzes developments in the field

Readership

Chemical engineers, materials scientists, bioengineers, biologists and biomedical scientists

Table of contents

Engineering materials from the bottom up - Overview (Koopmans & Middelberg)
Mechanisms and principles of 1D self-assembly of peptides into â-sheet tapes (Aggeli)
Modelling multi-scale self-organisation (van der Schoot)
Recombinant production of self-assembling peptides (McPherson)
Inspiration from natural silk and their proteins (Shao)
Surface and solution based assembly of amyloid fibrils for biomedical and nanotechnology applications (Gras)
Hybrid systems engineering: polymer - peptide conjugates (Fee)

Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Volume: 35
  • Published: March 30, 2009
  • Language: English

About the editor

RK

Rudy Koopmans

Affiliations and expertise
Dow Benelux BV, Terneuzen, The Netherlands

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