Hydrogels of Cytoskeletal Proteins Preparation, Structure, and Emerg
This book describes a new family of bio-polymer gels made from cytoskeletal proteins - actin, microtubule, and tropomyosin. The importance of the gel state with multi-scale hierarchical structure is emphasized to utilize emergent functions in living
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Hydrogels of Cytoskeletal Proteins Preparation, Structure, and Emergent Functions
Hydrogels of Cytoskeletal Proteins
Yoshihito Osada • Ryuzo Kawamura Ken-Ichi Sano
Hydrogels of Cytoskeletal Proteins Preparation, Structure, and Emergent Functions
Yoshihito Osada RIKEN Wako-shi, Saitama, Japan Ken-Ichi Sano Nagoya University Chikusa-ku, Kyoto, Japan
Ryuzo Kawamura Nakabayashi Laboratory Department of Chemistry Faculty of Science, Saitama University Nara, Japan Saitama University Department of Chemistry Saitama-shi, Saitama Japan
ISBN 978-3-319-27375-4 ISBN 978-3-319-27377-8 DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-27377-8
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Preface
Progress in the rapidly developing area of nanoscience and nanotechnology will introduce new concepts and new scientific paradigm. The importance of injection and incorporation of new knowledge should not be excluded for the materials science. The integration of biomolecules with synthetic chemical methodology to form novel materials would be important as viewed from creation of functional devices and systems of the next era. In fact, general and active scientific effort is directed to the coupling of biological functions with synthetic materials trying to assemble intelligent processing devices that are anticipated to act as “artificial organs” with emergent functions. The objective of this book is to provide biologists the comprehensive perspective of the science of polymer gels—“soft and wet matter”—and vise verse and invite materials scientists to the world of cytoskeletal proteins as bio-originated novel materials. Conjunction of biomolecules with the polymer science would yield novel hybrid devices with unique function
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