Nanosystem Characterization Tools in the Life Sciences presents a broad range of characterization methods and technologies as applicable to life science on the nanoscale.

Features:

• Aims to serve as a single source of information that gathers up the knowledge otherwise spread out over many journal articles
• Offers a picture of the whole to members of all involved disciplines
• Features fluorescence imaging with nanoprobes, scanning probe techniques, antibody-based microbalance measuring, NMR, X-ray, FT-IR, ESR, and atom probe tomography

Contents

• Fluorescence Imaging in Biology using Nanoprobes
• Characterization of Nanoscale Systems in Biology using Scanning Probe Microscopy Techniques
• Quartz Crystal Microbalance Characterization of Nanostructure Assemblies in Biosensing
• NMR Characterization Techniques ¿ Application to Nanoscaled Pharmaceutical Carriers
• Characterization of Nano Features in Biopolymers using Small-angle X-ray Scattering, Electron Microscopy and Modeling
• In Situ Characterization of Drug Nanoparticles by FTIR Spectroscopy
• Characterization of Nanoscaled Drug Delivery Systems by Electron Spin Resonance (ESR)
• X-ray Absorption and Emission Spectroscopy in Nanoscience and Lifescience
• Some New Advances and Challenges in Biological and Biomedical Materials Characterization
• Dynamic Light Scattering Microscopy
• X-ray Scattering Techniques for Characterization of Nanosystems in Lifesciences

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