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Materials Science » Biomaterials
Application of Thermodynamics to Biological and Materials Science
Edited by Mizutani Tadashi, ISBN 978-953-307-980-6, Hard cover, 628 pages, Publisher: InTech, Chapters published January 14, 2011 under CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 license
DOI: 10.5772/1763
Progress of thermodynamics has been stimulated by the findings of a variety of fields of science and technology. The principles of thermodynamics are so general that the application is widespread to such fields as solid state physics, chemistry, biology, astronomical science, materials science, and chemical engineering. The contents of this book should be of help to many scientists and engineers.
- Chapter 1
Thermodynamics of Protein Structure Formation and Function - Chapter 2
Thermodynamics of Natural and Synthetic Inhibitor Binding to Human Hsp90 - Chapter 3
Enthalpy, Entropy, and Volume Changes of Electron Transfer Reactions in Photosynthetic Proteins - Chapter 4
Thermodynamics of Supramolecular Structure Formation in Water - Chapter 5
Role and Applications of Electrostatic Effects on Nucleic Acid Conformational Transitions and Binding Processes - Chapter 6
Tandem DNA Repeats: Generation and Propagation in the Microgene Polymerization Reaction and in Vivo. - Chapter 7
The Second Law of Thermodynamics and Host-Tumor Relationships: Concepts and Opportunities - Chapter 8
Thermodynamics of the Heart - Chapter 9
The Protein Surface as a Thermodynamic Frontier: A Fractal Approach - Chapter 10
Biomimetics - Thermodynamics to Study Wetting of Self-Cleaning Surfaces - Chapter 11
Thermodynamics of Self-Assembly - Chapter 12
Thermodynamics and Mesomechanics of Nanostructural Transitions in Biological Membranes as Liquid Crystals - Chapter 13
Adsorption Profiles and Solvation of Ions at Liquid-Liquid Interfaces and Membranes - Chapter 14
Calorimetric: A Tecnique Useful in Characterization of Porous Solid - Chapter 15
Dissociation Energies of O−H Bonds of Phenols and Hydroperoxides - Chapter 16
Determination of the Constants of Formation of Complexes of Iron(III) and Acetohydroxamic Acid - Chapter 17
Obtaining Thermodynamic Properties and Fluid Phase Equilibria without Experimental Measurements - Chapter 18
Complex Fluid Phase Equilibrium Modeling and Calculations - Chapter 19
Thermodynamics of Viscodielectric Materials - Chapter 20
Volatile Precursors for Films Deposition: Vapor Pressure, Structure and Thermodynamics - Chapter 21
Thermochemistry and Kinetics of the Reactions of Apatite Phosphates with Acid Solutions - Chapter 22
The Sintering Behaviour of Fe-Mn-C Powder System, Correlation between Thermodynamics and Sintering Process, Manganese Distribution and Microstructure Composition, Effect of Alloying Mode - Chapter 23
Molecular-Dynamics Calculation of Nanostructures Thermodynamics. Research of Impurities Influence on Results.
