Publisher's Synopsis
This book will be written with all these audiences in mind - touching equally on each of
these unique perspectives and goals. The topics discussed will be grounded in physics, but
at a level accessible to researchers in other fields and consequently will discuss relevance
and applicability to cellular biology and materials science.
Key Features
1. Detailed protocols for creating and tuning biopolymer networks, including video
protocols.
2. Description of methods for measuring mechanics, structure, and dynamics of
biopolymer networks with a focus on optical tweezers micro rheology and differential
dynamic microscopy (two valuable techniques that are not widely used due to lack of
understanding)
3. Freeware Python code for data analysis (available through GitHub repositories)
4. Discussion of networks of topologically-novel polymer networks - the underlying
physics, how to create, and open questions
5. Discussion of biopolymer networks as active matter - the frontier of soft matter
and materials science research.
6. Written to be highly interdisciplinary, suitable for relevant audiences in physics,
biophysics, biology, chemistry, engineering, materials science
