Content: PREFACE ; 1. BIOMOLECULE/NANOPARTICLE HYBRID SYSTEMS FOR BIOANALYSIS AND ; NANOMEDICINE ; RONIT FREEMAN, BILHA WILLNER, AND ITAMAR WILLNER ; 2. FUNCTIONALISATION, CHARACTERIZATION, AND APPLICATION OF METAL ; NANOPARTICLES FOR BIOANALYSIS ; I. A. LARMOUR, K. FAULDS, AND D. GRAHAM ; 3. TAILORING QUANTUM DOT INTERFACES FOR IMPROVED BIOFUNCTIONALITY AND ; ENERGY TRANSFER ; JOSHUA ZYLSTRA, RABEKA ALAM, HYUNJOO HAN, ROBERT P. DOYLE, AND MATHEW M. MAYE ; 4. BIOANALYSIS AND BIOIMAGING WITH FLUORESCENT CONJUGATED POLYMERS AND ; CONJUGATED POLYMER NANOPARTICLES ; HUI XU, LIHUA WANG, AND CHUNHAI FAN ; 5. BIOMOLECULAR RECOGNITION: NANOTRANSDUCTION AND NANOINTERVENTION ; ELIZABETH CREW, STEPHANIE LIM, HONG YAN, SHIYAO SHAN, JUN YIN, LIQIN LIN, ; RAMESHWORI LOUKRAKPAM, LEFU YANG, JIN LUO, AND CHUAN-JIAN ZHONG ; 6. FUNCTIONAL GOLD NANOPARTICLES FOR BIOINTERFACES ; MARIA HEPEL ; 7. BIOMARKER DETECTIONS USING FUNCTIONAL NOBLE METAL NANOPARTICLES ; MINGHUI YANG, JIANXIU WANG, AND FEIMENG ZHOU ; 8. ASSEMBLY OF GOLD NANOPARTICLES INDUCED BY METAL IONS ; MARIA HEPEL, DUSTIN BLAKE, MATTHEW MCCABE, MAGDALENA STOBIECKA, AND ; KAITLIN COOPERSMITH ; 9. NOBLE METAL NANOPARTICLES IN BIOANALYSIS ; XIURONG YANG, XIAOLEI WANG, HUI ZHU, AND XIAOWEN XU ; 10. NANOPARTICLES OF DIFFERENT SHAPES FOR BIOSENSOR APPLICATIONS ; RADHA NARAYANAN ; 11. ELECTROCHEMICAL SENSORS AND BIOSENSORS BASED ON SELF-ASSEMBLED ; MONOLAYERS: APPLICATION OF NANOPARTICLES FOR ANALYTICAL SIGNALS ; AMPLIFICATION ; HANNA RADECKA, JERZY RADECKI, IWONA GRABOWSKA, AND KATARZYNA KURZ?TKOWSKA ; 12. NANOPARTICLES AND NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS USED IN MODIFICATION OF ; ELECTRODE SURFACES ; MIKO?AJ DONTEN AND ZBIGNIEW STOJEK ; 13. MANIPULATION OF THE ELECTRONIC PROPERTIES OF GOLD AND SILVER CORE?SHELL ; NANOPARTICLES ; DERRICK M. MOTT AND SHINYA MAENOSONO ; 14. SILVER NANOSTRUCTURES: PROPERTIES, SYNTHESIS, AND BIOSENSOR APPLICATIONS ; RAGHDA EL-DESSOUKY, MARIAM GEORGES, AND HASSAN M. E. AZZAZY ; EDITORS' BIOGRAPHIES ; INDEXES ; AUTHOR INDEX ; SUBJECT INDEX