Can we scale down robots to small scales and realize them with self-organizing molecules? As biological cells already act a little like – they sense, compute, move, respond their environment the answer is probably “yes”. But wide range of interesting physical challenges have be tackled.

Identical objects, regularly assembled, form a helix, which is the principal motif of nucleic acids, proteins, and viral capsids.

Stability phase diagram and intermolecular interactions 8.4 Gel formation 8.5 Mixtures of proteins and polysaccharides 9. From molecules to cells. 10. Conclusion: the specificity of pressure effects Acknowledgments Glossary Bibliography Biographical Sketch

Biomolecules are the prime information processing elements of living matter. Most of these inanimate systems are polymers that compute their own structures and dynamics using as input seemingly random character strings of their sequence, following which they coalesce and perform integrated cellular functions. In large computational systems with finite interaction-codes, the appearance of confli...

the transformation of biochemical information into a physical or chemical signal is the basic idea behind a biosensor. the efficient detection of charged biomolecules by biosensor with appropriate device has caught tremendous research interest in the present decade. the present work is related to the simulation study of the performance of a functionalized surface of a biologically sensitive fie...

To date, mass spectrometric analysis of biomolecules has been primarily performed with either matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization (MALDI) or electrospray ionization (ESI). In this work, ultrasound produced by a simple piezoelectric device is shown as an alternative method for soft ionization of biomolecules. Precursor ions of proteins, saccharides and fatty acids showed little fragmenta...