This resource presents the first volume to collect exciting recent work on the fusion of two topical fields of research: supramolecular chemistry and hybrid materials design. Topics covered include materials design, synthesis and characterization, supramolecular chemistry strategies and processes, signaling mechanisms and signal assessment, and applications in many diverse areas. Issues related to nanofabrication or nanotechnology such as "directed and controlled assembly or disassembly", biomimetic functions or "gated host-guest chemistry" are highlighted. This provides an important reference for supramolecular chemists, materials scientists, analytical chemists, and high-level students in these fields.

Preface.List of Contributors.1. Hybrid (Nano)Materials Meet Supramolecular Chemistry--A Brief Introduction To Basic Terms And Concepts (Knut Rurack and Ramón Martínez-Máñez).2. Supramolecular Chemistry at the Mesoscale (Katsuhiko Ariga, Gary J. Richards, Jonathan P. Hill, Ajayan Vinu and Toshiyuki Mori).ORGANIC-INORGANIC HYBRID NANOMATERIALS.3. Silica-Based Mesoporous Organic-Inorganic Hybrid Materials (Frank Hoffmann and Michael Fröba).4. Modified Gold Nanoparticles and Surfaces (Paolo Pengo and Lucia Pasquato).5. Organically Functionalized Semiconductor Nanocrystals: Synthesis, Properties and System Design for Optoelectronic Applications (Peter Reiss, Julia De Girolamo and Adam Pron).6. Functionalized Carbon Nanotubes for Bioapplications (Lingrong Gu, Fushen Lu, Pengju G. Luo, Haifang Wang, Mohammed J. Meziani and Ya-Ping Sun).7. Metal-Organic Frameworks (MOFs) and Coordination Polymers (Susumu Kitagawa and Shin-ichiro Noro).IMPROVEMENT OF SIGNALING AND SENSING BY ORGANIZATION ON SURFACES.8. Nanoparticle and Biomolecular-Nanoparticle Hybrid Supramolecular Complexes for Electrochemical Signaling (Ronen Polsky, Jason C. Harper and Susan M. Brozik).9. Modified Nanoparticles as Nanoelectrocatalysts and Amplifying Sensors (Shaojun Guo, Erkang Wang and Xiurong Yang).10. Signal Generation with Gold Nanoparticles: Photophysical Properties for Sensor and Imaging Applications (Qingshan Wei and Alexander Wei).11. Optical Signaling with Silica Nanoparticles (Umberto Tonellato, Fabrizio Mancin and Paolo Tecilla).12. Organically Modified Quantum Dots in Chemical and Biochemical Analysis (María Teresa Fernández Argüelles, José M. Costa-Fernández, Rosario Pereiro and Alfredo Sanz-Medel).CONTROL OF SUPRAMOLECULAR NANOFABRICATION, MOTION AND MORPHOLOGY.13. Chemically Directed Self-Assembly of Nanoparticle Structures on Surfaces (Xing Yi Ling, David N. Reinhoudt and Jurriaan Huskens).14. Immobilization and Patterning of Biomolecules on Surfaces (Dorota I. Rozkiewicz, Bart Jan Ravoo and David N. Reinhoudt).15. Switchable Host-Guest Chemistry on Surfaces (Jilie Kong, Chunmin Jiang and Li Mu).16. Nanogated Mesoporous Silica Materials (Igor I. Slowing, Brian G. Trewyn and Victor S.-Y. Lin).17. Building Molecular Machines on Surfaces (Alberto Credi, Serena Silvi and Margherita Venturi).18. Control of Morphology in Mesoporous and Mesostructured Hybrid Materials (Darren Dunphy, Bernd Smarsly and C. Jeffrey Brinker).BIOMIMETIC CHEMISTRY.19. Biomimetically Inspired Signaling (Knut Rurack, Ramón Martínez-Máñez, Félix Sancenón and Ana B. Descalzo).20. Imprinted Functionalized Silica (Maryanne M. Collinson).21. Bioinspired Block Copolymer-Based Hybrid Materials (Marleen Kamperman and Ulrich Wiesner).INTERFACIAL CHEMISTRY, MULTIFUNCTIONALITY AND INTERDISCIPLINARITY.22. Emerging Concepts in Interfacial Chemistry of Hybrid Materials: Nanocontainer-Based Self-Healing Coatings (Dmitry Shchukin, Daria Andreeva, Katja Skorb and Helmuth Möhwald).23. Molecular Schizophrenics--Switchable Materials with Multiple Functions (Robert Byrne and Dermot Diamond).24. Hybrid Nanomaterials Research--Is It Really Interdisciplinary (Ismael Rafols, Martin Meyer and Jae-Hwan Park).25. Supramolecular Chemistry Meets Hybrid (Nano)Materials--A Brief Look Ahead (Knut Rurack and Ramón Martínez-Máñez).