https://doi.org/10.1140/epje/i2009-10521-8
Regular Article
Biological Physics near Surfaces/Interfaces: a Perspective
Institut Laue-Langevin, 6 rue Jules Horowitz, BP 156, 38042, Grenoble, France
* e-mail: fragneto@ill.fr
Received:
2
September
2009
Accepted:
18
September
2009
Published online:
14
October
2009
Biological physics at interfaces is an expanding field of research where a wide variety of disciplines fruitfully cross-link. The high degree of complexity of the involved systems requires the concerted application of many different and complementary techniques. Future success relies both upon development of new instrumentation and a better interaction of material scientists, physicists, molecular biologists and chemists.
PACS: 68.47.Pe Langmuir-Blodgett films on solids; polymers on surfaces; biological molecules on surfaces – / 68.43.-h Chemisorption/physisorption: adsorbates on surfaces – / 87.85.jc Electrical, thermal, and mechanical properties of biological matter – / 87.15.-v Biomolecules: structure and physical properties –
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