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This review article discusses some common enhanced sampling methods in relation to the process of self-assembly of biomolecules. An introduction to self-assembly and its challenges is covered followed by a brief overview of the methods and…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-03-03 Mason Hooten , Het Patel , Yiwei Shao , Rishabh Kumar Singh , Meenakshi Dutt

When magnets are fashioned into nanoscale elements, they exhibit a wide variety of phenomena replete with rich physics and the lure of tantalizing applications. In this topical review, we discuss some of these phenomena, especially those…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-12-08 Bivas Rana , Amrit Kumar Mondal , Supriyo Bandyopadhyay , Anjan Barman

The recent advancements in bio-engineering and wireless communications systems have motivated researchers to propose novel applications for telemedicine, therapeutics and human health monitoring. For instance, through wireless medical…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-03 Yevgeni Koucheryavy , Anastasia Yastrebova , Daniel P. Martins , Sasitharan Balasubramaniam

The distances over which biological molecules and their complexes can function range from a few nanometres, in the case of folded structures, to millimetres, for example during chromosome organization. Describing phenomena that cover such…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2011-09-28 Changbong Hyeon , D. Thirumalai

Memory effects are ubiquitous in nature and are particularly relevant at the nanoscale where the dynamical properties of electrons and ions strongly depend on the history of the system, at least within certain time scales. We review here…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-03-02 Yuriy V. Pershin , Massimiliano Di Ventra

Herein, we report a minireview to give a brief introduction of applications of nanomaterials in the field of forensic science. The materials that have their size in nanoscale (1 - 100 nm) comes under the category of nanomaterials.…

The focus in this paper is an analysis of existing state of the arts directed toward the development of the next generation of vibration damping systems. The research work concentrates on an investigation related to…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-08-15 M. -V. Kireitseu , G. Tomlinson , J. Lu , H. Altenbach , G. Rongong , L. -V. Bochkareva , D. Hui

Biomaterials are becoming an essential tool in the study and application of stem cell research. Various types of biomaterials enable three-dimensional (3D) culture of stem cells, and, more recently, also enable high-resolution patterning…

Tissues and Organs · Quantitative Biology 2016-10-11 Richard J. McMurtrey

The small world of matter is getting smaller and smaller. Nano sciences in recent years had huge developments allowing nanotechnologies to take enormous steps in the development of materials and processes. Numerous applications in a wide…

Physics and Society · Physics 2021-11-08 José António Filipe , Manuel Alberto M. Ferreira

The nanophysics is halfway between the size scales of quantum mechanics and macroscopic physics governed by the laws of Newton and Einstein. The correct definition of nanophysics is the physics of structures and artefacts with dimensions in…

Popular Physics · Physics 2016-06-29 E. Catalano

Nanotechnologies are attracting increasing investments from both governments and industries around the world, which offers great opportunities to explore the new emerging nanodevices, such as the Carbon Nanotube and Nanosensors. This…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2018-12-13 Gang Wang

Living cells are soft bodies of a characteristic form, but endowed with a capacity for a steady turnover of their structures. Both of these material properties, i.e. recovery of the shape after an external stress has been imposed and…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Erwin Frey , Klaus Kroy , Jan Wilhelm

The growth of world population, limitation of resources, economic problems and environmental issues force engineers to develop increasingly efficient solutions for logistic systems. Pure optimization for efficiency, however, has often led…

Model biomembrane systems play a crucial role in advancing biomedical research by providing simplified yet effective platforms for exploring complex biological mechanisms. These systems span a wide range of scales, from…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-10-01 Ajit Seth , Sajal K. Ghosh , Veerendra K. Sharma

Building on our prior work, where our team transcended self assembled molecular monolayers (SAMs) research from a 2D configuration to 3D structured materials and successfully introduced the molecular self assembled 3D printer to fabricate…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-10-22 Hicham Hamoudi , Sara Iyad Ahmad , Atef Zekri , Kamal Toumi , Vladimir Esaulov

This review is written with the goal of informing public health concerns related to nanoscience, while raising awareness of nanomaterials toxicity among scientists and manufacturers handling them. We show that humans have always been…

Medical Physics · Physics 2008-01-23 Cristina Buzea , Ivan I. Pacheco , Kevin Robbie

The quest for realizing and manipulating ever smaller man-made movable structures and dynamical machines has spurred tremendous endeavors, led to important discoveries, and inspired researchers to venture to new grounds. Scientific feats…

To illustrate the power of the biophysical approach in solving important problems in life science, I present here one of our current research projects as an example. We have developed special biophotonic techniques to study the dynamic…

Biological Physics · Physics 2014-01-10 Donald C. Chang

Much of our mechanistic understanding of the functions of biological macromolecules is based on static structural experiments, which can be modelled either as single structures or conformational ensembles. While these provide us with…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2025-10-02 Daria Gusew , Carl G. Henning Hansen , Kresten Lindorff-Larsen

This study presents a theoretical model for a self-replicating mechanical system inspired by biological processes within living cells and supported by computer simulations. The model decomposes self-replication into core components, each of…

Other Quantitative Biology · Quantitative Biology 2025-02-18 Ralph P. Lano