Biological Nanostructures and Applications of Nanostructures in Biology: Electrical, Mechanical, and Optical Properties

- Biomedical applications of semiconductor quantum dots,

- Integrating and tagging biological structures with nanoscale quantum dots,

- Applications of carbon nanotubes in bioengineering,

- Nanophysical properties of living cells,

- Bridging natural nanotubes with fabricated nanotubes,

- Bioinspired approaches to building nanoscale devices and systems,

- Hairpin formation in polynucleotides.

This state-of-the-art survey of key developments in nanotechnology - as they apply to bioengineering and biology - is essential reading for all academics, biomedical engineers, medical physicists, and industry professionals wishing to take advantage of the latest developments and highly-promising discoveries in nanoscience underlying applications in bioengineering and biology.