Functional nanomaterials have found wide applications in diverse areas because of their
intrinsically different properties compared to their bulk counterparts. To achieve the goal of …

Structural and compositional diversities of proteins generate a number of functions for
fabricating novel and advanced materials. Recent progress in protein engineering endows …

Harnessing nature's amazing ability to form self-assembled structures for nanotechnology
applications is an attractive alternative to conventional fabrication methods. In recent years …

Highlights•Insitu fabrication of protein-hybrid bionanomaterials leads to new materials with
defined and easily tailored architectures 'easily'tailored.•Advances in the field aim to achieve …

In nature, proteins are the machinery that accomplish many functions through their specific
recognition and interactions in biological systems from single-celled to multicellular …

Nanomaterials with controllable chemical compositions and structures, large surface-to-
volume ratios, various surface properties, and functionalities offer many opportunities for …

A variety of inorganic materials with amazingly complex structures and morphologies are
produced by natural organisms. The fundamental mechanism underlying the natural …

Proteins are a powerful scaffold for the organisation of inorganic components in the solid
state. Due to the defined atomic structure of the protein scaffold, organometallic complexes …

Biological materials naturally display a variety of functional structures highly organized at the
nanoscale. Various bioassemblies have been shown to template complex, multidimensional …

Nature has evolved an optimal synthetic factory in the form of translational and
posttranslational processes by which millions of proteins with defined primary sequences …