Hierachically Structured Materials: Volume 255

Preface; Acknowledgments; Materials Research Society Symposium proceedings; Part I. Structures, Properties and Design Rules in Hierarchical Materials in Nature: 1. Characterization of the complex matrix of mytilus edulis shell and the implications for biometric ceramics; 2. A hierarchically structured model composite: a tem study of the hard tissue of red abalone; 3. Self-organization (assembly) in biosynthesis of silk fibers - a hierarchical problem; 4. Physics of complex-biological membranes and cell interfaces; 5. Self-assembly of bacterial macrofibers: a system based upon hierarchies of helices; Part II. Synthetic Hierarchical Structures and Design Rules: 6. Polymer liquid crystals and their blends: a hierarchy of structures; 7. Hierarchical structures in liquid crystalline polymers; 8. Conductive composite fibers with a rigid-rod matrix; 9. Structural and morphological features of synthetic and natural polymers; Part III. Composite Structures and Mechanical Properties: 10. Mechanical behaviour of hierarchical synthetic composites; 11. Hierarchy in extended chain polymers; 12. The influence of reinforcing fibers on the morphology and crystallization of thermoplastic polymer composites; 13. Polymer microlayer composites; 14. Characterizing hierarchical structures of natural ivory; 15. Hierarchical structure of a natural composite: insect cuticle; 16. Structure-mechanical property relationships in a biological ceramic-polymer composite: nacre; 17. Failure problems in composites; Part IV. Pattern Formation in Synthetic and Natursal Composites: 18. DNA binding to conducting polymer films; 19. ?-Hemolysin: a self-assembling protein pore with potential applications in the synthesis of new materials; 20. Cluster assembly of hierarchical nanostructures; 21. Design and synthesis of metals (tungsten) with structural hierarchy for very high temperatures; Part V. Electronic, Optical, and Magnetic Properties of Hierarchically Structured Materials: 22. Hierarchical structure and light scattering in the cornea; 23. Nonlinear optical properties of hierarchical systems; 24. Biometric sensors and actuators; 25. Dielectric permittivities at x-band frequencies of conductive fibers aligned in polymer matrices; 26. Eukaryotic transduction pathways and man-made systems compared; 27. Morphology control of the electrochromic effect in tungsten oxide thin films; 28. Hierarchical design of electrochromic glasses; Part VI. Scaling and Structural Characterization in Hierarchical Natural and Synthetic Structures: 29. Imaging of hierarchically structured materials; 30. Statistical mechanics of phase transitions with a hierarchy of structures; 31. Hierarchical tilings; 32. Disorder and scaling in regular and hierarchical composites; 33. Hierarchical structures that arise from self-assembling systems Edmund A. Di Marzio; 34. Hierarchical cellular materials; Part VII. Processing of Synthetic Hierarchical Structures: 35. Hierarchically structured materials generated in membrane mimetic systems: nanosized particle production of CdS and ZnS at monolayers; 36. Biometric mineralization of an aligned, self-assembled collagenous matrix; Part VIII. Molecular Design of Hierarchical Structures: 37. Structural polysaccharides in molecular architecture of plant cell walls - from algae to hardwoods; 38. Hierarchical structure and physical properties of natural cellulosic fibers; 39. Toward monodisperse poly(?-benzyl ?, l-glutamate): uniform, polar, molecular rods; 40. Hierarchical and modulable hydrophobic folding and self-assembly in elastic protein-based polymers: implications for signal transduction; 41. Self-assembled ?-helical polypeptide films; 42. Design of protein-producing bioreactors for self-assembling systems; Author index; Subject index.