Semiconductor quantum dots, 61, 75
Serum albumin, gene delivery, 218
Simulation, 237
Single chains, 1
collapse, 8
Single-molecule spectroscopy (SMS), 61
Single-molecule stretching, 40
Spectrin, 34
Stiffness, 4, 10
Stretching forces, 6
Surfaces, adsorption, 162
insulating, 194
Swollen coils, 3
T
Tenascin, 34
Terrylene diimide (TDI), 63
Terrylene monoimide monoanydride
maleimide (TMIMA), 84
Tethered chain, 8
Tetrakis(4-ethynylphenyl)methane, 72
Tetraphenylcyclopentadienone, 72
Thermotolerance, 34
Titin, 34
Toroidal structures, 4
Transfection, 211
polymers, 226
Translocation coordinate, 22
Transmembrane domains, 255
Transmembrane proteins, 237
Triacetonetriperoxide, 130
U
Unfolding, 27, 31–43, 222
V
van der Waals interactions, 115, 119,
153, 195
W
Worm-like chain (WLC) model, 5, 32, 38, 42,
133–137, 165
288
Index