Biophysical Chemistry Principles and Techniques

The book discusses the major physic-chemical forces important to
biological systems and the applications of such forces in modern
analytical techniques. The book promises to be extremely useful to
undergraduate and post-graduate students of Biotechnology, Biochemistry,
Microbiology, Pharmaceutical Science and Medical Sciences Besides other
disciplines of life sciences in general. The book, while promising to
be a hand book for all conventional analytical techniques used in life
sciences such as Spectrophotometer, Mass spectrometry, Centrifugation,
Chromatography, electrophoresis, Isotopic tracers, Ion-specific
electrodes, optical rotator dispersion, Circular dichroism, Flow
birefringence, Light scattering, Fluorescence Energy transfer etc., also
highlights the new developments such as Capillary electrophoresis,
Pulsed field gel electrophoresis, Cellular gel electrophoresis,
Polymerase chain reaction, ELISA, Flow cytometry, nonradioactive
throughout the text in distinct boxes. As an exercise to the students
many representative problems have been provided. The book is a must for a
basic understanding of the subject and for providing orientation to the
student for future work. CONTENTS - 1. Acids And Bases 2. ION Specific
Electrodes 3. The Colloidal Phenomena 4. Diffusion and Osmosis 5.
Viscosity 6. Surface Tension 7. Absorption 8. Spectrophotometry 9. Other
Optical Techniques for Molecular Characterization 10. Centrifugation
11. Chromatography 12. Electrophoresis 13. Isotopes in Biology 14.
Certain Physicochemical Techniques Useful in Biochemistry 15. Mass
Spectrometry