Physics of Biomaterials: Fluctuations, Selfassembly and Evolution
By: edited by Tormod Riste, David Sherrington
Contributors: Sherrington, David
Series: NATO ASI Series, Series E: Applied Sciences -- 322; NATO ASI Series, Series E: Applied Sciences -- 322
Publisher: Springer Netherlands
Published: 1996
Place of publication: Dordrecht
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] /
Number of pages: 378
ISBN-13: 9789401072717; 9789400917224
Subjects: Biochemistry; Evolution (Biology); Physics
Other titles: Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Study Institute, Geilo, Norway, March 27-April 6, 1995
Description: Recent years have seen a growing interest in and activity at the interface between physics and biology, with the realization that both subjects have a great deal to learn from and to teach to one another. A particularly promising aspect of this interface concerns the area of cooperative phenomena and phase transitions. The present book addresses both the structure and motion of biological materials and the increasingly complex behaviour that arises out of interactions in large systems, giving rise to self organization, adaptation, selection and evolution: concepts of interest not only to biology and living systems but also within condensed matter physics. The approach adopted by Physics of Biomaterials: Fluctuations, Self Assembly and Evolution is tutorial, but the book is fully up to date with the latest research. Written at a level appropriate to graduate researchers, preferably with a background either in condensed matter physics or theoretical or physically-oriented experimental biology.
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