Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics of Macromolecular Systems

Preface and outline 1. Introduction 2. Statistical mechanics: a modern review 3. The complexity of minimalistic lattice models for protein folding 4. Monte Carlo and chain growth methods for molecular simulations 5. First insights to freezing and collapse of flexible polymers 6. Crystallization of elastic polymers 7. Structural phases of semiflexible polymers 8. Generic tertiary folding properties of proteins in mesoscopic scales 9. Protein folding channels and kinetics of two-state folding 10. Inducing generic secondary structures by constraints 11. Statistical analyses of aggregation processes 12. Hierarchical nature of phase transitions 13. Adsorption of polymers at solid substrates 14. Hybrid protein-substrate interfaces 15. Concluding remarks and outlook Notes References Index.

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