"Version: 20220901"--Title page verso.

Includes bibliographical references.

1. Introduction -- 1.1. What is this book about? -- 1.2. The evolution of the Universe -- 1.3. The evolution of human thought -- 1.4. The birth of modern physics -- 1.5. Life sciences and their contribution to understanding the world

2. Materials science and life sciences -- 2.1. The impact of the production and use of material technology products -- 2.2. The industrial revolution and its impact on the environment -- 2.3. Environmental monitoring -- 2.4. The potential of micro-organisms to decompose waste -- 2.5. Micro-organisms in technological processes -- 2.6. Problems with nanomaterials -- 2.7. Threats from nanotechnology products

3. Materiomics -- 3.1. The importance of microscopic techniques for the development of science -- 3.2. Other research techniques allowing the development of science -- 3.3. Definition of materiomics -- 3.4. Current applications of materiomics

4. Biological recognition of materials -- 4.1. Life and matter -- 4.2. The principle of correspondence in science -- 4.3. Artificial cell -- 4.4. Molecular interactions and recognition -- 4.5. Signal transduction and particles uptake -- 4.6. Molecular biology methods -- 4.7. Biological recognition of stress

5. Quantum basis of materials recognition by cells -- 5.1. A new strategy for the identification and grouping of nanomaterials -- 5.2. Postulates -- 5.3. Supporting arguments -- 5.4. The quantum effects of nanomaterials -- 5.5. More on biological material recognition -- 5.6. Some practical considerations

6. Considerations of substrate bonding and catalysis models -- 6.1. The essence of the chemical reaction -- 6.2. Reaction kinetics -- 6.3. Kinetic theory of collisions -- 6.4. Catalysis and tunneling -- 6.5. Chemical bonds -- 6.6. Hydrogen bonds and electrostatic interactions -- 6.7. Molecular tunneling and molecular interactions -- 6.8. Interactions with nanomaterials -- 7. Summary.

This reference text presents a comprehensive strategy for the identification, characterization and grouping of nanomaterials using biological methods. The focus is on methods from molecular biology, and complementary methods derived from quantum physics. The book discusses the interaction of materials with their environment, the field of materiomics, the biological recognition of materials, and the quantum basis of materials recognition by cells. The analysis of quantum mechanisms enables a deeper exploration of the interaction of biological objects with materials, but an advanced understanding of mathematics is not required to follow the discussion. The key audience for the book includes biomaterials researchers involved in the characterization of materials and those interested in material interactions and life sciences more broadly.

Researchers involved in the characterisation of materials, particularly biomaterials researchers and those interested in the interaction of materials science and the life sciences.

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Professor Bogdan Walkowiak until the end of 2021 was the head of the Department of Biophysics at the Lodz University of Technology, scientific leader of the Bionanopark laboratory in Lodz, Poland, and represented Poland in the Nanomaterials Expert Group of the European Chemicals Agency. He is the author of over 90 scientific papers. Dr Magdalena Walkowiak-Przyby±o is a pharmacist and doctor of technical sciences in the field of materials science. He is a specialist in the field of molecular biology and materiomics. He is currently working in a pharmaceutical company. Dr Piotr Komorowski is a doctor of technical sciences in the field of materials science with a specialization in the application of methods of molecular biology and materiomics. Currently, he is the head of the Molecular and Nanostructural Biophysics Laboratory at the Bionanopark in Lodz, Poland.

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