Recent progress in colloid and surface chemistry with biological applications

Content: 1. Langmuir Monolayer Properties of Fluorinated Fatty Alcohols and Dipalmitoylphosphatidylcholine (DPPC) 2. A Review of Hydrophilization of Oxidized Nanocarbons3. Interactions between Graphene Oxide and Biomolecules from Surface Chemistry and Spectroscopy 4. The Role of Langmuir Monolayers To Understand Biological Events 5. a-Helix Facilitates Proteins To Form Langmuir Monolayer: Surface Properties and Orientation Studies of Aequorin and a-Synuclein at the Air-Water Interface 6. How To Decipher Protein and Peptide Selectivity for Lipids in Monolayers 7. Single-Molecule Fluorescence Microscopy Methods in Chromatin Biology 8. Review: Physicochemical Structure Effects on Metal Oxide Nanoparticulate Cytotoxicity 9. Dynamic Light Scattering Coupled with Gold Nanoparticle Probes as a Powerful Sensing Technique for Chemical and Biological Target Detection10. Conducting Polymeric Nano/Microstructures: From Fabrication to Sensing Applications 11. Organic-Inorganic Supramolecular Gels and Contrast Agents for Magnetic Resonance Imaging Based on the Surfactant-Covered Polyanionic Clusters 12. Diverse Near-Infrared Resonant Gold Nanostructures for Biomedical Applications 13. Bioanalysis within Microfluidics: A Review 14. Plasmonics in Analytical Spectroscopy 15. Quantitative Comparative Techniques of Infrared Spectra of a Thin Film16. Protein Response to Chromophore Isomerization in Microbial Rhodopsins Revealed by Picosecond Time-Resolved Ultraviolet Resonance Raman Spectroscopy: A Review 17. Biophysical Methods for the Studies of Protein-Lipid/Surfactant Interactions 18. Synchrotron-Based X-ray Methods as Powerful Tools for the Characterization of Monolayers at the Air/Liquid Interface