Biomimetic Bio-inspired and Self-Assembled Materials for Engineered Surfaces and Applications

This volume represents a collection of papers from five distinct yet related symposia: Symposium L Biomimetic Nanoscale Platforms Particles and Scaffolds for Biomedical Applications; Symposium M Bioinspired Directional SurfacesFrom Nature to Engineered Textured Surfaces; Symposium Q Functional and Responsive Materials Exploiting Peptide and Protein Self-Assembly; Symposium R Fundamentals of Assembly in Biomolecular and Biomimetic Systems; and Symposium S Directed Self-Assembly for Nanopatterning. This volume is thus the first for which the papers are from a larger group of thematically-related symposia with emphasis on bioinspiration and biomimicry self-assembly and natural materials.