Contents ; Preface ; 1. Proteins at Interfaces III: Introductory Overview ; Willem Norde, Thomas A. Horbett, and John L. Brash ; 1. Physicochemical Aspects ; 2. Optimizing the Bioaffinity Interaction between His-Tag Proteins and Ni(II) ; Surface Sites ; Laura E. Valenti, Elisa Herrera, Maria Fernanda Stragliotto, Vitor L. Martins, ; Roberto M. Torresi, and Carla E. Giacomelli ; 3. Protein?Bioceramic Interactions at the Interface ; Sunita Prem Victor and Chandra P. Sharma ; 4. Solid-State NMR Studies of Biomineralization Peptides and Proteins ; Adrienne Roehrich, Jason Ash, Ariel Zane, David L. Masica, Jeffrey J. Gray, ; Gil Goobes, and Gary Drobny ; 5. Mechanisms of Fibrinogen Adsorption on Mica ; Zbigniew Adamczyk, Monika Wasilewska, Malgorzata Nattich-Rak, and ; Jakub Barbasz ; 6. AFM-Based Friction Force Spectroscopy: A Novel Methodology for the ; Study of the Strength and Lateral Diffusion of Proteinaceous Films ; Javier Sotres, Liselott Lindh, Olof Svensson, Alejandro Barrantes, and ; Thomas Arnebrant ; 7. Simultaneous versus Sequential Adsorption of ?-Casein/SDS Mixtures. ; Comparison of Water/Air and Water/Hexane Interfaces ; A. Dan, G. Gochev, Cs. Kotsmar, J. K. Ferri, A. Javadi, M. Karbaschi, J. Kragel, ; R. Wustneck, and R. Miller ; 8. Control of Protein Adsorption and Cell Adhesion by Mixed Polymer ; Brushes Made by the "Grafting-To" Approach ; Eva Bittrich, Sina Burkert, Klaus-Jochen Eichhorn, Manfred Stamm, and ; Petra Uhlmann ; 2. Computer Simulation of the Adsorption of Proteins to Solid ; Surfaces and Related Experimental Work ; 9. Understanding Protein-Surface Interactions at the Atomistic Level through ; the Synergistic Development of Experimental and Molecular Simulation ; Methods ; T. Abramyan, G. Collier, T. G. Kucukkal, X. Li, J. A. Snyder, A. A. Thyparambil, ; N. A. Vellore, Y. Wei, J. A. Yancey, S. J. Stuart, and R. A. Latour ; 10. Proteins and Peptides at Gold Surfaces: Insights from Atomistic ; Simulations ; L. Bellucci, G. Brancolini, A. Calzolari, O. Carrillo Parramon, S. Corni, and ; R. Di Felice ; 3. Biological Function of ; Adsorbed Proteins ; 11. Protein?Carbohydrate Interactions on the Surfaces of Glycosylated ; Membranes ; Jia Luo and Zhi-Kang Xu ; 12. Protein Surface Interactions and Biocompatibility: A Forty Year ; Perspective ; John L. Brash ; 13. Regulation of Protein/Surface Interactions by Surface Chemical ; Modification and Topographic Design ; Dan Li and Hong Chen ; 14. Mechanisms of the Foreign Body Response to RFGD Plasma-Generated ; PEO-Like Films ; Luisa M. Szott and Thomas A. Horbett ; 15. Effect of Microtopography on Fibrocyte Responses and Fibrotic Tissue ; Reactions at the Interface ; David W. Baker and Liping Tang ; 16. Specific and Nonspecific Interactions between Salivary Proteins and ; Streptococcus mutans ; Chun-Ping Xu, Henk J. Busscher, Henny C. van der Mei, and Willem Norde ; 17. Measurement of Time-Dependent Functional Activity of Adsorbed ; Fibrinogen and Platelet Adhesion on Material Surfaces ; Li-Chong Xu, Pranav Soman, Bryan M. Scheetz, and Christopher A. Siedlecki ; 18. Understanding the Role of Exogenous and Endogenous Surfactants in Gas ; Embolism ; Joshua W. Lampe, Portonovo S. Ayyaswamy, and David M. Eckmann ; 19. Annexin A5 Binding and Rebinding to Mixed Phospholipid Monolayers ; Studied by SPR and AFM ; Xuezhong Du, David W. Britt, and Vladimir Hlady ; 20. Soil Binds Prions and Influences Their Biologic Properties ; S. L. Bartelt-Hunt, S. E. Saunders, and J. C. Bartz ; 21. Orientation of Adsorbed Antibodies: In Situ Monitoring by QCM and ; Random Sequential Adsorption Modeling ; Christine Dupont-Gillain ; 22. Material-Driven Fibronectin Fibrillogenesis ; Marco Cantini, Cristina Gonzalez-Garcia, Virginia Llopis-Hernandez, and ; Manuel Salmeron-Sanchez ; 23. Effect of Albumin Adsorption on Biotribological Properties of Artificial ; Joint Materials ; A. P. Serro, R. Colaco, and B. Saramago ; 24. Sustainable Growth Factor Delivery through Affinity-Based Adsorption to ; starPEG-Heparin Hydrogels ; A. Zieris, S. Prokoph, K. R. Levental, P. B. Welzel, K. Chwalek, K. Schneider, ; U. Freudenberg, and C. Werner ; 25. Structural Insight of Antibody Adsorption for Improved Bioactivity and ; Detection ; Xiubo Zhao, Mohammed Yaseen, Fang Pan, and Jian R. Lu ; 4. Resistance to Protein Adsorption ; 26. Synthesis of Glycocalyx-Mimetic Surfaces and Their Specific and ; Nonspecific Interactions with Proteins and Blood ; Kai Yu and Jayachandran N. Kizhakkedathu ; 27. Clarification of Protein Adsorption at Polymer Brush Surfaces Based on ; Water Structure Surrounding the Surface ; Yuuki Inoue and Kazuhiko Ishihara ; 28. Poly(ethylene glycol) and Poly(carboxy betaine) Based Nonfouling ; Architectures: Review and Current Efforts ; Mojtaba Binazadeh, Maryam Kabiri, and Larry D. Unsworth ; 29. Peptide Adsorption and Function at Pendant PEO Brush Layers ; Karl F. Schilke and Joseph McGuire ; 30. Polyacrylamide: Evaluation of Ultralow Fouling Properties of a Traditional ; Material ; Lingyun Liu, Qingsheng Liu, and Anuradha Singh ; 31. Protein-Repellent Functionalizable Surfaces Based on Covalently Bonded ; Phospholipids with Phosphorylcholine Head ; Lynda Ferez, Thierry Thami, Lara Tauk, Edefia Akpalo, Valerie Flaud, ; Armagan Kocer, Jean-Marc Janot, and Philippe Dejardin ; 5. Experimental Techniques for the Study of Proteins at Interfaces ; 32. High-Throughput Study of Protein-Surface Interactions Using a Surface ; Plasmon Resonance Imaging Apparatus ; Yusuke Arima, Rika Ishii, Isao Hirata, and Hiroo Iwata ; 33. Probing Protein Association with Nano- and Micro-Scale Structures with ; ToF-SIMS ; Ivan M. Kempson, Yeukuang Hwu, and Clive A. Prestidge ; 34. Soft X-ray Spectromicroscopy of Protein Interactions with ; Phase-Segregated Polymer Surfaces ; Adam P. Hitchcock, Bonnie O. Leung, John L. Brash, Andreas Scholl, and ; Andrew Doran ; 35. Characterizing the Structure of Surface-Immobilized Proteins: A Surface ; Analysis Approach ; Joe E. Baio, Tobias Weidner, and David G. Castner ; 36. Protein Patterns Fabricated by Affinity-Based Surface Ligand Selection ; from Protein Solution Mixtures on a Polymer Hydrogel Substrate ; Hironobu Takahashi, David G. Castner, and David W. Grainger ; 37. Proteomic Approaches To Characterize Surface-Bound Proteins and ; Material-Mediated Cellular Proteins ; Yao Fu and Weiyuan John Kao ; 38. Structure and Stability of Proteins Interacting with Nanoparticles ; Luigi Calzolai, Stefania Laera, Giacomo Ceccone, and Francois Rossi ; Editors' Biographies ; Indexes ; Author Index ; Subject Index