Lipids: Structure, Physical Properties and Functionality

Lipids: Structure, physical properties and functionality provides a description of the diversity of lipid molecular arrangements in different physical states as a basis for the understanding of lipid functionality in biological and technical systems.

List of contents

Basic concepts; Solid-state behaviour of polymorphic fats and fatty acids; Liquid- crystalline lipidwater phases; The liquid state; Lipids at the air-water interface - monolayers and multilayers in surface films, bubbles and foams; Dispersions of lipid-water phases; Interaction of lipids with proteins and polypeptides; Emulsions; Lipids of biological membranes; Lipid barriers at the environment-body interface; Drug delivery; Foods.

About the author

Kare Larsson, Camurus Lipid Research Foundation, Lund, Sweden. Peter Quinn, Kings College London, London, UK. Kiyotaka Sato, Hiroshima University, Japan and Fredrik Tiberg, Camurus AB, Lund, Sweden.

Product details

• Authors: K. Larsson, Kare Larsson, P. Quinn, Peter Quinn, K. Sato, Kiyotaka Sato
• Publisher: Focal Pr
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.01.2006
• EAN: 9780953194995
• ISBN: 978-0-9531949-9-5
• No. of pages: 288
• Dimensions: 156 mm x 234 mm x 18 mm
• Weight: 572 g
• Series: Oily Press Lipid Library
• Subject: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Chemistry > Theoretical chemistry