Filling the need for a volume on the organic side of nanotechnology, this comprehensive overview covers all major nanostructured materials in one handy volume. Alongside metal organic frameworks, this monograph also treats other modern aspects, such as rotaxanes, catenanes, nanoporosity and catalysis. Detailed attention is paid to the chemistry, physics and materials science throughout, making this a definite must for all chemists Quantum dots for cancer imaging / Yan Xiao and Xiugong Gao -- Quantum dots for targeted tumor imaging / Eue-Soon Jang and Xiaoyuan Chen -- Multiplexed bioimaging using quantum dots / Richard Byers and Eleni Tholouli -- Multiplexed detection using quantum dots / Young-Pil Kim, Zuyong Xia and Jianghong Rao -- Medical diagnostics of quantum dot-based protein micro- and nanoarrays / Anisha Gokarna and Yong-Hoon Cho -- Imaging and tracking of viruses using quantum dots / Kye-Il Joo, April Tai and Pin Wang -- Nanomaterials for radiation therapy / Ke Sheng and Wensha Yang -- Prospects of semiconductor quantum dots for imaging and photodynamic therapy of cancer / Vasudevanpillai Biju, Sathish Mundayoor, Abdulaziz Anas and Mitsuru Ishikawa -- Type-I and type-II core-shell quantum dots : synthesis and characterization / Dirk Dorfs, Stephen Hickey and Alexander EychmuΠβ¬ller -- Nanowire quantum dots / Thomas Aichele, Adrien Tribu, Gregory Sallen, Catherine Bougerol, ReΠΠgis AndreΠΠ, Jean-Philippe Poizat, Kuntheak Kheng and Serge Tatarenko -- Quantum dot-core silica glass-shell nanomaterials : synthesis, characterization, and potential biomedical applications / Norio Murase -- Toxicology and biosafety evaluations of quantum dots / Pinpin Lin, Raymond H.S. Yang, Chung-Shi Yang, Chia-Hua Lin and Louis W. Chang