chapter 1 Macromolecular Adsorption -- chapter 2 Driving Forces for Protein Adsorption at Solid Surfaces -- chapter 3 Thermodynamics of Adsorption of Amino Acids, Small Peptides, and Nucleic Acid Components on Silica Adsorbents -- chapter 4 Quantitative Modeling of Protein Adsorption -- chapter 5 Interfacial Behavior of Protein Mutants and Variants -- chapter 6 Orientation and Activity of Immobilized Antibodies -- chapter 7 Interactions Between Surfaces Coated with Carbohydrates, Glycolipids, and Glycoproteins -- chapter 8 Protein Adsorption Kinetics -- chapter 9 Mobility of Biomolecules at Interfaces -- chapter 10 Protein Adsorption in Relation to Solution Association and Aggregation -- chapter 11 Mechanism of Interfacial Exchange Phenomena for Proteins Adsorbed at Solid Liquid Interfaces -- chapter 12 Interactions Between Proteins and Surfactants at Solid Interfaces -- chapter 13 Toward Functionalized Polyelectrolyte Biofilms -- chapter 14 Self-Assembly of Functional Protein Multilayers -- chapter 15 Biological Activity of Adsorbed Proteins -- chapter 16 Protein Interactions with Monolayers at the Air Water Interface -- chapter 17 Local and Global Optical Spectroscopic Probes of Adsorbed Proteins -- chapter 18 Proteins on Surfaces -- chapter 19 Studies on the Conformation of Adsorbed Proteins with the Use of Nanoparticle Technology -- chapter 20 Scanning Calorimetry in Probing the Structural Stability of Proteins at Interfaces -- chapter 21 Ellipsometry and Re.ectometry for Studying Protein Adsorption -- chapter 22 Surface Plasmon Resonance Spectroscopies for Protein Binding Studies at Functionalized Surfaces -- chapter 23 Neutron Re.ection Study of Protein Adsorption at the Solid Solution Interface -- chapter 24 XPS, ToF-SIMS, and MALDI-MS for Characterizing Adsorbed Protein Films -- chapter 25 Interaction of Proteins with Polymeric Synthetic Membranes -- chapter 26 Protein Adsorption in Intravenous Drug Delivery -- chapter 27 Control of Protein Adsorption in Solid- Phase Diagnostics and Therapeutics -- chapter 28 Protein Interfacial Behavior in Microfabricated Analysis Systems and Microarrays -- chapter 29 Protein Adsorption in the Oral Environment -- chapter 30 Adsorbed Biopolymers.