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Wool and hair have the most complex structures of any textile fibres. In the paper by Viney, fig. 1 shows how keratin proteins, of which there are more than one type, all having a complicated sequence of amino acids, assemble into intermediate filaments (IFs or microfibrils). But, as shown in Fig. 5a, this is only one part of the story. The microfibrils are embedded in a matrix, as shown in Fig. 5b. The keratin-associated proteins of the matrix contain substantial amounts of cy.stine, which cross-links molecules by -CH2-S-S-CH2- groups. Furthermore, terminal domains (tails) of the IFs, which also contain cystine, project into the matrix and join the cross-linked network. At a coarser scale, as indicated in Fig. 5c, wool is composed of cells, which are bonded together by the cell membrane complex (CMC), which is rich in lipids. As a whole, wool has a multi-component form, which consists of para-cortex, ortho-cortex, meso-cortex (not shown in Fig. 5a), and a multi-layer cuticle. In the para-and meso-cortex the fibril-matrix is a parallel assembly and the macrofibrils, if they are present, run into one another, but in the ortho-cortex the fibrils are assembled as helically twisted macrofibrils, which are clearly apparent in cross-section.s. 

Figure 2 Composite structure of hair at various length-scales (a) filament protein with alternating helical/linker sections (helical section is shown atttie bottom) (b) coiled coil of filament proteins (in a polar environment two polypeptide chains naturally coil around each other in parallel, as this leaves the hydrophobic groups shielded in the centre) (c) intermediate filament with 16 coils (d) filament embedded in matrix (e) macrofibril (f) cortical call enclosed by cell-membrane complex.

Wust, S., Muller, R., Hofmann, S., 2015. 3D bioprinting of complex channels-Effects of material, orientation, geometry, and cell embedding. J. Biomed. Mater. Res. A 103, 2558-2570. 

The operation of the fuel cell involves complex interactions at the numerous embedded surfaces within the ceU, including the triple phase boundary. These embedded surfaces can mask the ability to probe the detailed nature of these... 

Most compartments inside cells are more complex. These have membrane walls that look like bacterial walls, enclosing enzymes that look bacterial, and circular DNA, bacteria s favorite DNA shape. These compartments look like miniature cells embedded within the larger cells like Russian nesting dolls. Some even divide independently within the cell, budding out like bacteria. All of this lends support to the idea that these once were independent bacteria that now live symbiotically inside other cells, an idea called endosymbiosis (roughly, inside-together-life ). 

Wool fibers contain two types of cells, viz. cuticle cells and cortical cells. The cuticle cells consist of external epicuticle, exocuticle, and endocuticle. The cortical cells are divided into two different types of cells termed as orthocortical and paracortical cells which occupy about 90% of the wool fibers. They are separated from one another by a cell membrane complex with three layer structure. The cortex structure is constituted from the crystalline microfibril of the a-helical aggregate embedded in a matrix of high sulfur content. Wool fiber is thus a composite material with a variety of function on mechanical, chemical, and physical properties. 

Computational solid-state physics and chemistry are vibrant areas of research. The all-electron methods for high-accuracy electronic stnicture calculations mentioned in section B3.2.3.2 are in active development, and with PAW, an efficient new all-electron method has recently been introduced. Ever more powerfiil computers enable more detailed predictions on systems of increasing size. At the same time, new, more complex materials require methods that are able to describe their large unit cells and diverse atomic make-up. Here, the new orbital-free DFT method may lead the way. More powerful teclmiques are also necessary for the accurate treatment of surfaces and their interaction with atoms and, possibly complex, molecules. Combined with recent progress in embedding theory, these developments make possible increasingly sophisticated predictions of the quantum structural properties of solids and solid surfaces. 

The interiors of rhodopseudomonad bacteria are filled with photosynthetic vesicles, which are hollow, membrane-enveloped spheres. The photosynthetic reaction centers are embedded in the membrane of these vesicles. One end of the protein complex faces the Inside of the vesicle, which is known as the periplasmic side the other end faces the cytoplasm of the cell. Around each reaction center there are about 100 small membrane proteins, the antenna pigment protein molecules, which will be described later in this chapter. Each of these contains several bound chlorophyll molecules that catch photons over a wide area and funnel them to the reaction center. By this arrangement the reaction center can utilize about 300 times more photons than those that directly strike the special pair of chlorophyll molecules at the heart of the reaction center. 

Von Neumann was able to construct a self-reproducing UTM embedded within a 29-state/5-cell neighborhood two-dimensional cellular automaton, composed of several tens of thousands of cells. It was, to say the least, an enormously complex machine . Its set of 29 states consist largely of various logical building blocks (AND and OR gates, for example), several types of transmission lines, data encoders and recorders, clocks, etc. Von Neumann was unfortunately unable to finish the proof that his machine was a UTM before his death, but the proof was later completed and published by Arthur Burks [vonN66]. 

The nucleic acids, deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) and ribonucleic acid (RNA), which carry embedded in their complex molecules the genetic information that characterizes every organism, are found in virtually all living cells. Their molecules are very large and complex biopolymers made up basically of monomeric units known as nucleotides. Thus DNA and RNA are said to be polynucleotides. The nucleotides are made up of three bonded (linked) components a sugar, a nitrogenous base, and one or more phosphate groups ... 

Enveloped viruses Many viruses have complex membranous structures surrounding the nucleocapsid. Enveloped viruses are common in the animal world (for example, influenza virus), but some enveloped bacterial viruses are also known. The virus envelope consists of a lipid bilayer with proteins, usually glycoproteins, embedded in it. Although the glycoproteins of the virus membrane are encoded by the virus, the lipids are derived from the membranes of the host cell. The symmetry of enveloped viruses is expressed not in terms of the virion as a whole but in terms of the nucleocapsid present inside the virus membrane. 

Plants were probably the first to have polyester outerwear, as the aerial parts of higher plants are covered with a cuticle whose structural component is a polyester called cutin. Even plants that live under water in the oceans, such as Zoestra marina, are covered with cutin. This lipid-derived polyester covering is unique to plants, as animals use carbohydrate or protein polymers as their outer covering. Cutin, the insoluble cuticular polymer of plants, is composed of inter-esterified hydroxy and hydroxy epoxy fatty acids derived from the common cellular fatty acids and is attached to the outer epidermal layer of cells by a pectinaceous layer (Fig. 1). The insoluble polymer is embedded in a complex mixture of soluble lipids collectively called waxes [1], Electron microscopic examination of the cuticle usually shows an amorphous appearance but in some plants the cuticle has a lamellar appearance (Fig. 2). 

F-ATPases (including the H+- or Na+-translocating subfamilies F-type, V-type and A-type ATPase) are found in eukaryotic mitochondria and chloroplasts, in bacteria and in Archaea. As multi-subunit complexes with three to 13 dissimilar subunits, they are embedded in the membrane and involved in primary energy conversion. Although extensively studied at the molecular level, the F-ATPases will not be discussed here in detail, since their main function is not the uptake of nutrients but the synthesis of ATP ( ATP synthase ) [127-130]. For example, synthesis of ATP is mediated by bacterial F-type ATPases when protons flow through the complex down the proton electrochemical gradient. Operating in the opposite direction, the ATPases pump 3 4 H+ and/or 3Na+ out of the cell per ATP hydrolysed. 

Functionally, dystrophin is associated with a glycoprotein complex embedded within the sarcolemma, where it acts to help maintain the shape and integrity of each myocyte and is also involved with cell signalling. Boys with DMD typically have less than 5% of the normal amount of functionally active dystrophin whereas in the less severe BMD there may be more than 20% of the protein present. All muscles are affected so not only movement but also breathing becomes impaired. 

Natural biological membranes consist of lipid bilayers, which typically comprise a complex mixture of phospholipids and sterol, along with embedded or surface associated proteins. The sterol cholesterol is an important component of animal cell membranes, which may consist of up to 50 mol% cholesterol. As cholesterol can significantly modify the bilayer physical properties, such as acyl-chain orientational order, model membranes containing cholesterol have been studied extensively. Spectroscopic and diffraction experiments reveal that cholesterol in a lipid-crystalline bilayer increases the orientational order of the lipid acyl-chains without substantially restricting the mobility of the lipid molecules. Cholesterol thickens a liquid-crystalline bilayer and increases the packing density of lipid acyl-chains in the plane of the bilayer in a way that has been referred to as a condensing effect. 

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