Conjugation of synthetic materials with cell-responsive biologically-active molecules can provide the signaling factors required to initiate the cascade of cell migration. This title covers synthesis and characterization, conformation, structure-activity, self-assembly, and host response of conjugate hybrid biomaterials.

Global warming, pollution, food and water shortage, cyberspace insecurity, over-population, land erosion, and an overburdened health care system are major issues facing the human race and our planet. These challenges have presented a mandate to develop “natural” or “green” technologies using nature and the living system as a guide to rationally design processes, devices, and systems. This approach has given rise to a new paradigm, one in which innovation goes hand-in-hand with less waste, less pollution, and less invasiveness to life on earth. Bioinspiration has...