In this report, the status quo and recent progress in electrokinetics are reviewed. Practical rules are recommended for performing electrokinetic measurements and interpreting their results in terms of well-defined quantities, the most familiar being the ζ -potential or electrokinetic potential. This potential is a property of charged interfaces and it should be independent of the technique use...

We present the first package of Java classes specifically aimed at the handling of structural and biophysical problems. To enable object-oriented programming a basis of fundamental Java classes is required which deals with basic operations of vectors, matrices, amino acid sequences, crystal symmetries and PDB files. Five classes, which carry out these basic operations, were constructed and bund...

Several theoretical advances are presented, with the common theme of helping better understand and guide recent experiments in biophysical chemistry. In Chapter 2, I consider a recent criticism of the Jarzynski equality, notably that a breakdown in the connection between work and changes in the Hamiltonian for time-dependent systems causes the Jarzynski equality to produce unphysical results. I...

The Ames Seralyzer uses solid phase chemistry coupled with reflectance spectroscopy to measure levels of serum alanine aminotransferase (serum ALT). The study reported here was carried out to evaluate the performance of the Seralyzer method compared to conventional analyses carried out on a Coulter Dacos discrete random access analyser using Boehringer (BCL) reagents conforming to SCE specicati...

Isothermal titration microcalorimetry (ITC) is mostly used to investigate the thermodynamics of "specific" host-guest interactions in biology as well as in supramolecular chemistry. The aim of this review is to demonstrate that ITC can also provide useful information about non-specific interactions, like electrostatic or hydrophobic interactions. More attention will be given in the use of ITC t...

This Special Issue of Biophysical Chemistry includes a selection of the papers presented at the XXI Congress of the Italian Society of Pure and Applied Biophysics (i.e., SIBPA, Società Italiana di Biofisica Pura ed Applicata) held on September 2012 at the University of Ferrara, Ferrara, Italy. Topics cover all biophysical disciplines, from molecular to cellular, to integrative biophysics giving...

Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences (BNLMS), Key Laboratory of Bioorganic Chemistry and Molecular Engineering of Ministry of Education, College of Chemistry, Peking UniVersity, Beijing 100871, China, Qinghai Institute of Salt Lakes, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xining 810008, China, and Key Laboratory of Organic Synthesis of Jiangsu ProVince, Department of Chemistry and Chemical ...

The article is an obituary aimed to pay tribute Petre T. Frangopol, a brilliant Romanian scientist (chemist and biophysicist). He had many fields of interest: Chemistry, Radiochemistry, Physical Organic Biophysical Biophysics, Medical Physics, Archaeometry, Oceanography, History Chemistry in Romania. However, I consider Frangopol as the main promotor Scientometrics Romania since he published lo...