Handbook of Lipid Membranes: Molecular, Functional, and Materials Aspects (Hardcover)

1. A Short History of Membrane Physics. 2. Structures of Lipid Membranes: Lamellar (Liquid Crystalline) Phases 3. Structures of Lipid Membranes: Cubic and Inverse Hexagonal Phases 4. Structure of lipid membranes by advanced x-ray scattering and imaging. 5. Adhesion Protein Architecture and Intermembrane Potentials: force measurements and biological significance. 6. Charged Membranes: Poisson-Boltzmann theory, DLVO paradigm and beyond. 7. Membrane Shape Evolution In Vitro. 8. Mechanisms of membrane curvature generation by peptides and proteins:Aunified perspective on antimicrobial peptides. 9. Lipid Membrane Shape Evolution and the Actin Cytoskeleton. 10. Effects of Osmotic Stress on Topologically Closed Membrane Compartments. 11. Cationic Liposomes as Spatial Organizers of Nucleic Acids in One, Two, and Three Dimensions: Liquid Crystal Phases with Applications in Delivery and Bionanotechnology. 12. Lipids in DNA, RNA, and Peptide Delivery for In Vivo Therapeutic Applications. 13. Electrostatics of Lipid Membranes Interacting with Oppositely Charged Macromolecules. 14. Lipid-based bioanalytical sensors. 15. Lipids in Dermal Applications: Cosmetics and Pharmaceutics. 16. Supported Lipid Bilayers. 17. Artificial membranes composed of synthetic copolypeptides. 18. Synthetic membranes from block co-polymers, recombinant proteins and dendrimers. 19. Amphiphilic self-assembly and the origin of life in hydrothermal conditions.