Silane-modified surfaces for biomaterial immobilization.- Avidin-biotin immobilization systems.- Antibiodies as immobilization reagents.- Bioanalytical applications of self-assembled monolayers.- Protein adsorption: friend or foe?.- Micropatterning cell adhesiveness.- Sol-gel matrices for protein entrapment.- Immobilization of 'smart' polymer-protein conjugates.- Kinetic analysis of the interaction between an analyte in solution and an immobilized protein.- Spectroscopic characterization of immobilized proteins.- Immobilization using electrogenerated polymers.