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