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PREFACE ix <p>CONTRIBUTORS xiii</p> <p><b>PART I FUNDAMENTALS 1</b></p> <p>1 ION PROPERTIES 3<br /> <i>Yizhak Marcus</i></p> <p>2 IONIC INTERACTIONS IN SUPRAMOLECULAR COMPLEXES 35<br /> <i>Hans-Jörg Schneider</i></p> <p>3 POLYELECTROLYTE FUNDAMENTALS 49<br /> <i>Angelo Perico</i></p> <p>4 POLYELECTROLYTE AND POLYAMPHOLYTE EFFECTS IN SYNTHETIC AND BIOLOGICAL MACROMOLECULES 91<br /> <i>Ngo Minh Toan, Bae-Yeun Ha, and Dave Thirumalai</i></p> <p>5 MODELING THE STRUCTURE AND DYNAMICS OF POLYELECTROLYTE MULTILAYERS 121<br /> <i>Juan J. Cerdà, Christian Holm, and Baofu Qiao</i></p> <p><b>PART II MIXED INTERACTIONS 167</b></p> <p>6 IONIC MIXED INTERACTIONS AND HOFMEISTER EFFECTS 169<br /> <i>Alberto Ciferri</i></p> <p>7 HYDROPHOBIC POLYELECTROLYTES 211<br /> <i>Andrés F. Olea</i></p> <p>8 ASSOCIATION OF POLYELECTROLYTES TO SURFACTANTS AND SUPRAMOLECULAR ASSEMBLIES: COMPETITIVE ROLE OF CHAIN RIGIDITY AND ASSEMBLY STABILITY 235<br /> <i>Alberto Ciferri and Angelo Perico</i></p> <p>9 ION TRANSFER IN AND THROUGH CHARGED MEMBRANES: STRUCTURE, PROPERTIES, AND THEORY 267<br /> <i>Victor V. Nikonenko, Andrey B. Yaroslavtsev, and Gérald Pourcelly</i></p> <p>10 REVERSIBLE COORDINATION POLYMERS 337<br /> <i>Kim de Lange, Jos M.J. Paulusse, Antonius T.M. Marcelis, and Han Zuilhof</i></p> <p>11 STRUCTURAL AND FUNCTIONAL ASPECTS OF METAL BINDING SITES IN NATURAL AND DESIGNED METALLOPROTEINS 361<br /> <i>Ornella Maglio, Flavia Nastri, and Angela Lombardi</i></p> <p>12 CHARGE-INDUCED EFFECTS ON ACID-BASE TITRATION AND CONFORMATIONAL STABILITY OF PROTEINS AND POLYPEPTIDES 451<br /> <i>Jan Hermans</i></p> <p><b>PART III FUNCTIONS AND APPLICATIONS 483</b></p> <p>13 IRON TRANSPORT IN LIVING CELLS 485<br /> <i>Alvin L. Crumbliss and Claire J. Parker Siburt</i></p> <p>14 DNA-LIPID AMPHIPHILES FOR DRUG AND GENE THERAPY 551<br /> <i>Peggy P.Y. Chan and LiShan Wang</i></p> <p>15 POLYELECTROLYTE INTELLIGENT GELS: DESIGN AND APPLICATIONS 581<br /> <i>Piero Chiarelli and Danilo De Rossi</i></p> <p>16 IONIC POLYMER–METAL COMPOSITES FOR SENSORS AND ARTIFICIAL MUSCLES: MECHANOELECTRIC PERSPECTIVES 621<br /> <i>Rashi Tiwari and Kwang J. Kim</i></p> <p>17 FUNCTIONAL LAYER-BY-LAYER POLYELECTROLYTES: ASSEMBLY STRATEGIES, CHARACTERIZATION, AND SELECTED APPLICATIONS 643<br /> <i>Nicel Estillore, Wolfgang Knoll, and Rigoberto Advincula</i></p> <p>18 POLYELECTROLYTES AT INTERFACES: APPLICATIONS AND TRANSPORT PROPERTIES OF POLYELECTROLYTE MULTILAYERS IN MEMBRANES 683<br /> <i>Bastien Seantier and André Deratani</i></p> <p>19 SELF-ASSEMBLY OF POLYELECTROLYTES FOR PHOTONIC CRYSTAL APPLICATIONS 727<br /> <i>Dario Cavallo and Davide Comoretto</i></p> <p>20 APPLICATIONS OF CHARGED MEMBRANES IN SEPARATION, FUEL CELLS, AND EMERGING PROCESSES 761<br /> <i>Gérald Pourcelly, Victor V. Nikonenko, Natalia D. Pismenskaya, and Andrey B. Yaroslavtsev</i></p> <p>21 POLYMER GEL ELECTROLYTES: CONDUCTION MECHANISM AND BATTERY APPLICATIONS 817<br /> <i>Ian M. Ward and Hugh V. St. A. Hubbard</i></p> <p>LIST OF SYMBOLS 841</p> <p>INDEX 843</p>

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<p>Alberto Ciferri is currently a Visiting Professor at Duke University, an Associate at the National Research Council (ISMAC), and President of the Jepa-Limmat Foundation, which is devoted to advanced education in developing countries. His research has had significant impact in the areas of the rheological properties of natural and synthetic polymers, fibrous proteins, interactions between salts and macromolecules, liquid crystals, and supramolecular assemblies.</p> <p>Angelo Perico is Research Director at the National Research Council, associated with the Institute for Macromolecular Studies, in Genoa, Italy. Dr. Perico's research is related to theory and modeling of synthetic and biological macromolecules and their dynamics, assembly, and functions, particularly the interactions among oppositely and similarly charged polyelectrolytes and on the electrostatic effects that promote the formation of complex biomolecular structures.</p>

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