As stated by Buckminster Fuller in Operation Manual for Spaceship Earth, "Synergy is the behavior of whole systems unpredicted by separately observed behaviors of any of the system's separate parts". In a similar vein, one might define an intellectual synergy as "an improvement in our understanding of the behavior of a system unpredicted by separately acquired viewpoints of the activities of such a system". Such considerations underlie, and provide a motivation for, an interdisciplinary approach to the problem of unraveling the deeper mysteries of cellular metabolism and organization, and have led a number of pioneering spirits, many represen ted in the pages which follow, to consider biological systems from an elec trochemical standpoint. is itself, of course, an interdisciplinary branch of Now electrochemistry science, and there is no doubt that many were introduced to it via Bockris and Reddy's outstanding, wide-ranging and celebrated textbook Modern Electrochemistry. If I am to stick my neck out, and seek to define bioelec trochemistry, I would take it to refer to "the study of the mutual interac tions of electrical fields and biological materials, including living systems".
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978-1-4613-2105-7 (9781461321057)
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10.1007/978-1-4613-2105-7
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1. Fundamental Aspects of Electron Transfer at Interfaces.- 2. The Origin of Cellular Electrical Potentials.- 3. Electrodic Chemistry in Biology.- 4. Elementary Analysis of Chemical Electric Field Effects in Biological Macromolecules. I. Thermodynamic Foundations.- 5. Elementary Analysis of Chemical Electric Field Effects in Biological Macromolecules. II. Kinetic Aspects of Electro-Optic and Conductometric Relaxations.- 6. Some Aspects of Charge Transfer in Biological Systems.- 7. Ion, Electron, and Proton Transport in Membranes: A Review of the Physical Processes Involved.- 8. Coherent Excitation in Active Biological Systems.- 9. Collective Properties of Biological Systems: Solitons and Coherent Electric Waves in a Quantum Field Theoretical Approach.- 10. Electrostatic Modulation of Electromagnetically Induced Nonthermal Responses in Biological Membranes.- 11. Differential Energy Control and the Dielectric Structure of Cells.- 12. Biological Dielectrophoresis: The Behavior of Biologically Significant Materials in Nonuniform Electric Fields.- 13. Electrical Phenomena in Proteinoid Cells.- 14. Noise in Biomolecular Systems.- 15. Cellular Spin Resonance (CSR).- 16. Dielectrophoretic Cell Sorting.- 17. A Qualitative, Molecular Model of the Nerve Impulse. Conductive Properties of Unsaturated Lyotropic Liquid Crystals.- 18. Conformation and Electronic Aspects of Chlorpromazine in Solution.- 19. Electrochemistry of Drug Interactions and Incompatibilities.- 20. Muscular Contraction.- 21. Transport in Plants.- 22. Electrochemical Methods for the Prevention of Microbial Fouling.- Author Index.
