Chapter 1. Introduction
Part I. Fundamentals of the study of biological materials and biomaterials. Application to the study of silks
Chapter 2. Experimental procedures applied to the study of silk: Retrieval of the fibers and mechanical characterization
Chapter 3. General principles of amino acids and proteins. Composition of silk
Chapter 4. Three-dimensional conformation of proteins I: Microcrystalline regions in silk
Chapter 5. Three-dimensional conformation of proteins II: Amorphous regions of silk
Chapter 6. Analysis of the variability in Biological Materials
Chapter 7. Modelling of the mechanical properties of silk
Part II. Microstructure and Properties of Biological Materials
Chapter 8. Collagen and elastin
Chapter 9. Polysaccharide fibers
Chapter 10. Cell and muscle fibers
Chapter 11. The locusts membrane
Chapter 12. Gels. Anemone mesoglea
Chapter 13. Lipids and biological membranes
Chapter 14. Membranes, micelles and vesicles
Chapter 15. Epithelial and connective tissues. Skin
Chapter 16. Wood
Chapter 17. Bovine horns
Chapter 18. Bone
Part III. Biocompatibility and Medical Biomaterials
Chapter 19. Interactions between biological systems and materials: Biocompatibility
Chapter 20. Medical Biomaterials
Chapter 21. Biofunctionalization
Chapter 22. Tissue Engineering
Part IV. Principles of Biomimetics
Chapter 23. Introduction to Statistical Physics: Determination of the constitutive equation of a material
Chapter 24. Mechanical properties of a polymeric chain
Chapter 25. An introduction to self- assembly. Principles of molecular assembly
Chapter 26. Physico-statistical description of macromolecules
Chapter 27. Thermodynamics of self- assembly and hierarchical microstructures
Chapter 28. Nonequilibrium thermodynamics and membrane potential
Chapter 29. Non-equilibrium statistical physics: Viscoelasticity
Chapter 30. Introduction to Molecular Genetics and Genetic Engineering
Chapter 31. Biomimetism of the lotus effect
Chapter 32. Biomimetism of gecko adhesion
Chapter 33. Silk Biomimetics
Exercise I. Representation of the three- dimensional structure of macromolecules
Exercise II. Microscopic model of the elastic modulus of enthalpic origin in a polymeric chain
Exercise III. Constitutive equation of a material controlled by forces of entropic origin
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