Bionanotechnology

Preface; Proteins to Nanodevices; Bionanotechnology: Proteins to Nanodevices; Chapter 1: DESIGN PRINCIPLES FOR SELF-ASSEMBLING DEVICES FROM MACROMOLECULES, F. Raymond Salemme. Chapter 2: METALLOPROTEIN-BASED ELECTRONIC NANODEVICES, Ross Rinaldi, Giuseppe Maruccio, Adriana Biasco et al.; Chapter 3: MECHANICAL CONSEQUENCES OF BIOMOLECULAR GRADIENTS IN BYSSAL THREADS, J. Herbert Waite, James C. Weaver, and Eleonora Vaccaro. Chapter 4: BACTERIORHODOPSIN-BASED 3D OPTICAL MEMORY, B. Xi, Kevin J. Wise, Jeffrey A. Stuart, and Robert R. Birge. Chapter 5: SPIDER SILK PRODUCTION, Randolph V.Lewis. Chapter 6: A PROJECTION DISPLAY BASED ON A BACTERIORHODOPSIN THIN FILM, L. Lindvold and H. Lausen. Chapter 7: THE ROLE OF COLLAGEN IN ENERGY STORAGE AND DISSIPATION IN EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX, Frederick H. Silver, Joseph W. Freeman, Istvan Horvath and Gino Bradica. Chapter 8: ENHANCEMENT OF PROTEIN THERMAL STABILITY: TOWARD THE DESIGN OF ROBUST PROTEINS FOR BIONANOTECHNOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS, V. Renugopalakrishnan, X. Wei, G. Narasimhan, C. S. Verma, Pingzuo Li, and A. Anumanthan. Chapter 9: DECIPHERING ENGINEERING PRINCIPLES FOR THE DESIGN OF PROTEIN-BASED NANOMACHINES, Dan W. Urry. Chapter 10: BIOPROCESSING OF SILK PROTEINS-CONTROLLING ASSEMBLY, Hyoung-Joon Jin, Jaehyung Park, Regina Valluzi, Ung-Jin Kim, Peggy Cebe, and David L. Kaplan. Chapter 11: NANOBIOTECHNOLOGY ENABLES NEW OPPORTUNITIES IN MATERIAL SCIENCES: BACTERIORHODOPSIN AS A FIRST EXAMPLE, Norbert Hampp. Chapter 12: SYNTHETIC PHOTOREFRACTIVE AND PHOTOCHROMIC MATERIALS AND THEIR COMPARISON WITH BACTERIORHODOPSIN MUTANTS FOR OPTICAL INFORMATION PROCESSING, Andrzej Miniewicz, V. Renugopalakrishnan. Chapter 13: SUBMONOLAYER MEASUREMENTS OF ADSORBED PROTEINS IN MICROFLUIDIC CHANNELS, David Henry, Keith Lenghaus, Kerry A. Wilson et al.; Chapter 14: PROGRAMS OF THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION ON ORGANIC MATERIALS FOR THE ELECTRONICS INDUSTRY, Dr Anne F. de Baas. Chapter 15: BIODIVERSITY: AN ARCHIVE OF OPPORTUNITY FOR NANODEVICES, Paul Galvin, Dennis A. Dempsey, Alan O'Riordan et al