edited by M Lal (Unilever Research Port Sunlight & Centre for Nano-scale Science, Liverpool University, UK) , P J Lillford (Unilever Research Colworth, UK) , V M Naik (Unilever Research India, Bangalore) , & V Prakash (CFTRI, Mysore, India)

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Foreword (77k)
Preface (99k)
Chain-Folded App-Sheet Lamellar Structures from Genetically-Engineered Periodic Polypepttoes (1,086k)

Of central importance in personal care, food, pharmaceutics, and biotechnology, biomaterials and biosubstrates formed the subject of the fifth meeting of the Royal Society-Unilever INDO-UK Forum in Materials Science and Engineering. The programme for this meeting dwelt on two principal foci: (i) new advances in the measurement of the supramolecular and colloidal structures, and (ii) the relationship of these structures to the functional properties of the materials.

This volume is a compilation of selected papers presented at the meeting by world-renowned scientists who included, among others, Prof E D T Atkins (Bristol, UK), Prof N Chandrakumar (Chennai, India), Dr A M Hermansson (Goteborg, Sweden), Dr V J Morris (Norwich, UK), Prof P Walstra (Wageningen, The Netherlands), Dr V Prakash (Mysore, India), Prof S B Ross-Murphy (King's College, London, UK), Prof G E Rogers (Adelaide, Australia), Dr T Kealey (Cambridge, UK) and Prof N Appaji Rao (Bangalore, India).

• Chain-Folded apβ-Sheet Lamellar Structures from Genetically-Engineered Periodic Polypeptides (E D T Atkins)
• C-13 NMR Imaging: Techniques and Applications to Materials and Biological Systems (N Chandrakumar)
• Supermolecular and Colloidal Food Structures: Novel Microscopic Approaches (A M Hermansson)
• Molecular Microscopy (V J Morris & A P Gunning)
• Supramolecular Structure of Proteins: Can Equilibrium be Shifted in Multimeric Proteins to Supernative Structure with Higher Stability in Certain Cosolvents? (V Prakash et al.)
• Fractal Particle Gels in Foods (P Walstra)
• The Rheology of Macromolecular and Supramolecular Biomaterials (S B Ross-Murphy)
• Cells and Molecules in the Properties of Hair and Wool (G E Rogers)
• The Cell Biology of Skin and Hair (T Kealey)
• Tetrameric Serine HydroxymethyItransferase: Insights into Molecular Organisation, Function and Rational Drug Design (N A Rao et al.)
• and other papers