Overview
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 organisms. Detailed protocol of gel preparation, specified method of structure investigation, and dynamic studies of self-organization, self-healing, synchronized oscillating, and autonomous motility functions are introduced together with biomimetic functions of synthetic hydrogels.
- | Author: Yoshihito Osada
- | Publisher: Springer
- | Publication Date: Jan 29, 2016
- | Number of Pages: 79 pages
- | Binding: Hardback or Cased Book
- | ISBN-10: 3319273752
- | ISBN-13: 9783319273754