Free Download | Nanotribology and Nanomechanics II: Nanotribology, Biomimetics, and Industrial Applications, 3rd Edition

The comprehensive reference and textbook serves as a timely, practical introduction to the principles of nanotribology and nanomechanics. 

Assuming some familiarity with macroscopic tribology, the book comprises chapters by internationally recognized experts, who integrate knowledge of the field from the mechanics and materials-science perspectives. 

They cover key measurement techniques, their applications, and theoretical modelling of interfaces, each beginning their contributions with macro- and progressing to microconcepts.

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Free Download | Smart Biosensor Technology

Synergy is the key to creating more intelligent biosensors. Engineers develop smaller, more integrated technologies; biologists and chemists develop increasingly selective and sensitive sensor elements; material scientists develop ways to bring it all together. However, most books focus only on the chemistry aspects of biosensor technologies. With a multidisciplinary perspective, Smart Biosensor Technology examines the design, applications, and future directions of this rapidly evolving field.This book collects contributions from leading specialists in a variety of scientific and engineering disciplines involved in different aspects of biosensor design and technology. Five broad sections provide a systematic structure that builds progressively from key concepts to emerging technologies and future directions. Following an introduction to the fundamental characteristics and functions of the underlying technologies, two sections explore the role materials play in developing smart biosensors. Next, the editors devote an entire section to bioelectronics with a focus on a biophotonic material called bacteriorhodopsin and its application to photoelectric biosensing, chemical sensing, and color imaging.

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Free Download | Biophysical Aspects of Transmembrane Signaling

Transmembrane signaling is one of the most significant cell biological events in the life and death of cells in general and lymphocytes in particular. Until recently biochemists and biophysicists were not accustomed to thinking of these processes from the side of a high number of complex biochemical events and an equally high number of physical changes at molecular and cellular levels at the same time. Both types of researchers were convinced that their findings are the most decisive, having higher importance than the findings of the other scientist population. Both casts were wrong. Life, even at cellular level, has a number of interacting physical and biochemical mechanisms, which finally build up the creation of an "excited" cell that will respond to particular signals from the outer or inner world.

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Free Download | Soil Biochemistry

Soils play a central role in the conversion of organic matter and element fluxes because of the large number of microorganisms present in the soil. In this book the more important processes that are driven by microbiological activity are discussed. It will be of interest to students of chemistry, biology, ecology, soil science and related areas. Researchers from these fields will profit from extended literature surveys in each chapter comprising important findings from early as well as the most recent investigations.

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Free Download | Organic Electronics in Sensors and Biotechnology | PDF

Organic Electronics in Sensors and Biotechnology features contributors from leading U.S. and international researchers and academics in the OE field. The book will promote innovations in this field at the interface between electrical and computer engineering, physics, material science, chemistry, and biology, contributing to the field's development.

A detailed guide to the use of organic electronics in sensing applications. Recent progress in the field of organic electronics (OE), combined with the need for versatile, compact, inexpensive, high-throughput, and field-deployable chemical and biological sensors, has led to the development of OE-based sensors.

This multi-disciplinary book provides comprehensive information about the growing field of organic electronics and is the first to detail their use in sensing applications.

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Free Download | Basic Biotechnology

Biotechnology's wide-ranging, multi-disciplinary activities include recombinant DNA techniques, cloning, and the application of microbiology to the production of goods from bread to antibiotics. In this new edition, biology and bioprocessing topics are uniquely combined to provide a complete overview of biotechnology. A distinctive feature of the text is the discussions of the public perception of biotechnology and the business of biotechnology, which set the science in a broader context. This comprehensive textbook is essential reading for all students of biotechnology and applied microbiology, and for researchers in biotechnology industries. I found this book to be good for students like me who are studing undergraduate BioTechnology. i has all the informations that are taught to us, in a nice format and is easily understandable. I found this to be an excellent textbook for an introductory course in Biotech. I will strongly recomended it: it is general, it is easy to follow, it is updated, and it has something very special... the economic perspective, the practical point of view.

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