From the reviews: "Bionanotechnology is a new and exciting field of study. ... This ... is a fine attempt to bring together some review articles on frontier areas of the subject, with particular reference to proteins as nanosystems. ... The editors have assembled a panel of eminent scientists who have authored ... the book. The reviews are well written and are readable. ... this would be a useful source of information on selected areas of Bionanotechnology to the more serious learners of the subject. " (V.Lakshminarayanan, Journal of Ecobiology, Vol. 19 (1), 2006)

• 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.

From the reviews: "Bionanotechnology is a new and exciting field of study. ... This ... is a fine attempt to bring together some review articles on frontier areas of the subject, with particular reference to proteins as nanosystems. ... The editors have assembled a panel of eminent scientists who have authored ... the book. The reviews are well written and are readable. ... this would be a useful source of information on selected areas of Bionanotechnology to the more serious learners of the subject. " (V.Lakshminarayanan, Journal of Ecobiology, Vol. 19 (1), 2006)

• 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.

From the reviews: "Bionanotechnology is a new and exciting field of study. ... This ... is a fine attempt to bring together some review articles on frontier areas of the subject, with particular reference to proteins as nanosystems. ... The editors have assembled a panel of eminent scientists who have authored ... the book. The reviews are well written and are readable. ... this would be a useful source of information on selected areas of Bionanotechnology to the more serious learners of the subject. " (V.Lakshminarayanan, Journal of Ecobiology, Vol. 19 (1), 2006)

• 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.