Micro- and Nano-Transport of Biomolecules
Publisher: Bookboon.com
Published: 2013
ISBN-13: 9788776815134
Table of contents: title: Content; title: 1. Introduction; title: 1.1. Motivation: biomolecules in scientific context; title: 1.2. Length scale of transport; title: 1.3. Biomolecule transport example: engineered microdevices; title: 1.4. Structure of this e-book; title: 2. Biomolecules and their electrical properties; title: 2.1. Biomolecules in cells; title: 2.2. Biomolecules: structure and function; title: 2.3. Biomolecules: electrical properties; title: 2.4. Concluding remarks; title: 3. Moving biomolecules using electric fi elds; title: 3.1. Electrophoresis; title: 3.2. Dielectrophoresis (DEP); title: 3.3. Micro-environments for biomolecule transport; title: 3.4. Concluding remarks; title: 4. Basic micro- and nano-transport; title: 4.1. Inertial, friction and sedimentation forces on single biomolecules; title: 4.2. Electromagnetic forces acting on single biomolecules; title: 4.3. Thermal fl uctuations; title: 4.4. Combining forces for predicting single bioparticle trajectory; title: 4.5. Langevin equation for a single bioparticle (biomolecule); title: 4.6. Langevin equation stochastic integration and the modifi ed diffusion equation (MDE); title: 4.7. Concluding remarks; title: 5. Observing, quantifying and simulating electrically driven biomolecule microtransport; title: 5.1. Micro-device and experimental arrangement; title: 5.2. Observations and quantitative measurements; title: 5.3. Simulations of electrically driven biomolecule micro-transport; title: 5.4. Brief discussion of experiments and theory; title: 5.5. Concluding remarks; title: 6. References; title: 6.1. General – selected books; title: 6.2. Research articles and other reading