Abstract
Based on fundamental chemistry, biotechnology and materials science have developed over the past three decades into today's powerful disciplines which allow the engineering of advanced technical devices and the industrial production of active substances for pharmaceutical and biomedical applications. This review is focused on current approaches emerging at the intersection of materials research, nanosciences, and molecular biotechnology. This novel and highly interdisciplinary field of chemistry is closely associated with both the physical and chemical properties of organic and inorganic nanoparticles, as well as to the various aspects of molecular cloning, recombinant DNA and protein technology, and immunology. Evolutionary optimized biomolecules such as nucleic acids, proteins, and supramolecular complexes of these components, are utilized in the production of nanostructured and mesoscopic architectures from organic and inorganic materials. The highly developed instruments and techniques of today's materials research are used for basic and applied studies of fundamental biological processes.
Keywords
NanotechnologyBiochemical engineeringNucleic acidBiomoleculeChemistryComputational biologyBiotechnologyMaterials scienceBiologyEngineeringBiochemistry
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- 40
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- 22
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- 4128-4158
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Christof M. Niemeyer
(2001).
Nanoparticles, Proteins, and Nucleic Acids: Biotechnology Meets Materials Science.
Angewandte Chemie International Edition
, 40
(22)
, 4128-4158.
https://doi.org/10.1002/1521-3773(20011119)40:22<4128::aid-anie4128>3.0.co;2-s
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- DOI
- 10.1002/1521-3773(20011119)40:22<4128::aid-anie4128>3.0.co;2-s
- PMID
- 29712109