The recent developments of site-specific delivery drugs place biomimetics as an emerging science field, already proved as feasible both from a design, as well as engineering/ processing standpoint. The preparation of super hydrophobic surfaces, protein carriers and layer-by-layer assembling are some of the preparative tools within a bioinspired platform involved in the newly introduced concept—extension of nanotechnology in drug-delivery systems technology—the bioinspired nanoarchitectonics. This highly challenging concept expands its applicability to traditional biological materials design, from liposomes (polymeric) micelles, microemulsions, dendrimers and conjugates containing cell-penetrating peptides, to inorganics (mesoporous or layered silica particles). Besides the technological variety offered in biomimetic materials processing, the future biomimetic-based development will be involved also in mechanisms of triggering drug release, from independent, to pH or temperature dependent, up to advanced, mechanically induced release. By elucidating the principles underlying the mentioned preparation tools, this chapter will also outline the already available bioinspired nanomaterial designs.
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