This volume represents a collection of papers from five distinct yet related symposia: Symposium L, “Biomimetic Nanoscale Platforms, Particles, and Scaffolds for Biomedical Applications”; Symposium M, “Bioinspired Directional Surfaces–From Nature to Engineered Textured Surfaces”; Symposium Q, “Functional and Responsive Materials Exploiting Peptide and Protein Self-Assembly”; Symposium R, “Fundamentals of Assembly in Biomolecular and Biomimetic Systems”; and Symposium S, “Directed Self-Assembly for Nanopatterning.” This volume is thus the first for which the papers are from a larger group of thematically-related symposia, with emphasis on bioinspiration and biomimicry, self-assembly and natural materials.