Advanced nano- and biomaterials in biophysical chemistry

Nano-/Microfabrication of Biomaterials

The surface composition and functionality of biomaterials and scaffolds are the most important factors for their applications in biomedical fields and tissue regeneration. Bulk and surface properties of biomaterials influence vital cell activities such as cell adhesion, proliferation, extracellular matrix secretion, and differentiation. Nano-/microstructural control is found to be another key f...

Silicone Biomaterials: History and Chemistry

Food Physical Chemistry and Biophysical Chemistry

Food physical chemistry is considered to be a branch of Food chemistry [1] [2] concerned with the study of both physical and chemical interactions in foods in terms of physical and chemical principles applied to food systems, as well as the applications of physical/chemical techniques and instrumentation for the study of foods.[3] [4] [5] [6] This field encompasses the "physiochemical principle...

Scaffold biomaterials for nano-pathophysiology.

This review is intended to provide an overview of tissue engineering strategies using scaffold biomaterials to develop a vascularized tissue engineered construct for nano-pathophysiology. Two primary topics are discussed. The first is the biological or synthetic microenvironments that regulate cell behaviors in pathological conditions and tissue regeneration. Second is the use of scaffold bioma...

Seminar in Organic & Biophysical Chemistry

Recent in vitro protein-DNA binding measurements indicate that transcription factors (TFs) are bound with wide range of affinities to different DNA sequences that lack known consensus motifs, thus challenging the classical picture of specific protein-DNA binding. Our group has previously demonstrated that repetitive DNA sequence elements characterized by certain symmetries, statistically affect...