Bionanocomposites : integrating biological processes for bioinspired nanotechnologies / edited by Carole Aimé, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris, France, Thibaud Coradin, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris, France.

What Are Bionanocomposites? / Agathe Urvoas, Marie Valerio-Lepiniec, Philippe Minard, Cordt Zollfrank -- Molecular Architecture of Living Matter. Nucleic Acids / Enora Prado, Mónika Ádok-Sipiczki, Corinne Nardin -- Lipids / Carole Aimé, Thibaud Coradin -- Carbohydrates / Mirjam Czjzek -- Proteins / Stéphane Romero, François-Xavier Campbell-Valois -- Functional Biomolecular Engineering. Nucleic Acid Engineering / Enora Prado, Mónika Ádok-Sipiczki, Corinne Nardin -- Protein Engineering / Agathe Urvoas, Marie Valerio-Lepiniec, Philippe Minard -- The Composite Approach. Inorganic Nanoparticles / Carole Aimé, Thibaud Coradin -- Hybrid Particles / Nikola Ž Knežević, Laurence Raehm, Jean-Olivier Durand -- Biocomposites from Nanoparticles / Carole Aimé, Thibaud Coradin -- Applications. Optical Properties / Cordt Zollfrank, Daniel Opdenbosch -- Magnetic Bionanocomposites / Wei Li, Yuehan Wu, Xiaogang Luo, Shilin Liu -- Mechanical Properties of Natural Biopolymer Nanocomposites / Biqiong Chen -- Bionanocomposite Materials for Biocatalytic Applications / Sarah Christoph, Francisco M Fernandes -- Nanocomposite Biomaterials / Gisela Solange Alvarez, Martín Federico Desimone -- A Combination of Characterization Techniques / Carole Aimé, Thibaud Coradin.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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