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 Surfaces - From 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.