Selected Recent (& Seminal) Reviews and Articles:

membrane biophysics

General Reading
A living frontier – exploring the dynamics of the cell membrane - A Horizon Symposium, Nature Publishing Group
Dynamic, yet structured: The cell membrane three decades after the Singer–Nicolson model - A PNAS Review by Damjanovich et al

Photonic Band-gap and colloidal crystals

General Reading
Resources at the Joannopoulos Group
Monodispersed colloidal spheres: old materials with new applications, Xia Group

soft lithography

general Reading
soft lithography - A whitesides, Xia Review

organic-inorganic mesophases

general Reading
Evaporation-induced self-assembly: Nanostructures made easy- Brinker
Silicon biotechnology: harnessing biological silica production to construct new materials- Morse

ion-channel based membrane devices

general reading
Ion-channel switch Biosensors, Cornell et al

Langmuir phases

general reading
Langmuir-Blodgett film structure, Schwartz

Apoptosis

general reading
Apoptosis- the fas death factor
rafts, ceramides, and cell death rafts and apoptosis

Atherosclerosis