The cell, as a molecular system, is often interpreted in terms of complex clockworks, and the design charts of mechanical and electrical engineering are assumed to provide adequate approximations for the description of cellular organization...
Keywords: cellular organization, determinism, molecular machines, moonlighting proteins, self-organization, stochasticity
03/2005 | Biological Chemistry, Walter de GruyterMagnetic-field-assisted self-assembly of magnetic dipole moment carrying iron nanoparticles is shown to result in the formation of magnetic and mechanically stiff nanoscale rods...
Keywords: Magnetic Nanostructures, self-organization, Magnetoviscosity, Nanorods
02/2008 | Zeitschrift für Physikalische Chemie, Oldenbourg Wissenschaftsverlag