Bionanotechnology

Design principles for self-assembling devices from macromolecules. - Metalloprotein-based electronic nanodevices. - Mechanical consequences of biomolecular gradients in byssal threads. - Bacteriorhodopsin-based 3D optical memory. - Spider silk production. - A projection display based on a bacteriorhodopsin thin film. - The role of collagen in energy storage and dissipation in extracellular matrix. - Enhancement of protein thermal stability: toward the design of robust proteins for bionanotechnological applications. - Deciphering engineering principles for the design of protein-based nanomachines. - Bioprocessing of silk proteins-controlling assembly. - Nanobiotechnology enables new opportunities in material sciences: bacteriorhodopsin as a first exampple. - Synthetic photorefractive and photochromic materials and their comparison with bacteriorhodopsin mutants for optical information processing. - Submonolayer measurements of adsorbed proteins in microfluidic channels. - Programs of the european commission on organic materials for the electronics industry. - Biodiversity: an archive of opportunity for nanodevices.