Rapidly develo** polymeric micelles as potential targeting carriers has intensified the
need for better understanding of the underlying principles related to the selection of suitable …

Highlights•Amphiphilic polymers self-assemble into block copolymer micelles in
solution.•Polymeric micelles have longer and better contact with the ocular …

Filling a gap in the literature, this book features in-depth discussions on amplitude
modulation AFM, providing an overview of the theory, instrumental considerations and …

Nanomedicine-based approaches to cancer treatment face several challenges that differ
from those encountered by conventional medicines during clinical development. A …

Background: A 28 amino-acid (aa) cell-penetrating peptide (p28) derived from azurin, a
redox protein secreted from the opportunistic pathogen Pseudomonas aeruginosa …

The p53 gene family members p53, p73, and p63 display several isoforms derived from the
presence of internal promoters and alternative splicing events. They are structural homologs …

This is a comprehensive review of the combination of scanning probe microscopy (SPM)
with various optical spectroscopies, with a particular focus on Raman spectroscopy. Efforts …

Electrical and mechanical properties of elongated gold-molecule-gold junctions formed by
tolane-type molecules with different anchoring groups (pyridyl, thiol, amine, nitrile and …

This article describes single-molecule force spectroscopy measurements of the interaction
between individual amino acid residues and inorganic surfaces in an aqueous solution. In …

Dissociation rate constants (k off) for the model high affinity interaction between biotin (B)
and the homotetramer of natural core streptavidin (S 4) were measured at pH 7 and …