"Version: 20171001"--Title page verso."A Morgan & Claypool publication as part of IOP Concise Physics"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.Preface : why the physical microbe? -- 1. Introduction -- 1.1. Diversity -- 1.2. Size -- 1.3. Energy -- 1.4. Food -- 1.5. Diffusion versus size2. Growth -- 2.1. Exponential growth -- 2.2. Stationary phase -- 2.3. Lag phase and decline -- 2.…
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"Version: 20231101"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.part I. Magnetics-based techniques from a physics of cancer perspective. 1. Examination of cancer cells and their ambient matrix using NMR and MRE -- 1.1. The principles of, and a short introduction to nuclear magnetic resonance -- 1.2. An overview of in-cell NMR techniques from prokaryotic to eukaryotic cells -- 1.3. A f…
"Version: 20251201"--Title page verso.Revised edition of: Introduction to cellular biophysics. Volume 2, From membrane transport to neural signalling.Includes bibliographical references.1. Introduction to cells -- 1.1. Cell structure and chemistry -- 1.2. Properties of cell membranes -- 1.3. Membrane transport processes and their role in cell function -- 1.4. Experimental methods for membrane t…
"Version: 20241201"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Historical review -- 1.1 'Living' electricity -- 1.2. Nernst potential and Bernstein hypothesis -- 1.3. Squid giant axon -- 1.4. Model of squid axon proposed by Hodgkin and Huxley -- 1.5. Ion channels and pumps -- 1.6. Myelinated nerve fibers, ephaptic coupling -- 1.7. Synapses -- 1.8. Optogenetics and thermogenetics -…
"Version: 20250301"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Introduction -- 1.1. Historical perspective -- 1.2. Solar radiation fundamentals -- 1.3. Photovoltaic effect -- 1.4. Solar cell fundamentals -- 1.5. Shockley-Queisser limit -- 1.6. Conclusions2. Material considerations -- 2.1. Material fundamentals -- 2.2. Amorphous silicon -- 2.3. Materials overview -- 2.4. Spectral r…
"Version: 20231101"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Mechanosensing and the mechanotransduction of cells -- 1.1. An introduction to mechanosensation and mechanotransduction in living cells -- 1.2. Molecular mechanosensory behavior -- 1.3. The role of focal adhesion proteins -- 1.4. Interplay between mechanosensors -- 1.5. The interplay between focal adhesion proteins and…
"Version: 20250501"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Matrix-modification by cells : exosomes and cancer -- 1.1. Summary -- 1.2. Introduction to the role of exosomes in cancer -- 1.3. Biogenesis of EVs -- 1.4. Cargo and biological make-up of EVs, such as exosomes -- 1.5. Cargo-centered view on the biogenesis of the exosomes and ectosomes -- 1.6. Regulation of cargo based …
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"Version: 20221201"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Introduction to microbial fuel cell technology / M. Azizul Moqsud -- 2. Basic principles and working mechanisms of microbial fuel cells / Asim Ali Yaqoob, Mohamad Nasir Mohamad Ibrahim, Akil Ahmad and Mohammed B. Alshammari -- 3. Electrochemical characterization of microbial fuel cells / Claudia Guerrero Barajas, Mar?i…