ch. 1. Plasmonic circuits : manipulating light on the nanoscale / Kristy Cherie Vernon -- ch. 2. Nanoplasmonics for light trapping solar cells / F.J. Beck, S. Mokkapati, and K.R. Catchpole -- ch. 3. Theoretical nanoscale design of self-cleaning coatings / George Yiapanis ... [et al.] -- ch. 4. Nitrogen-vacancy colour centres in diamond : theory, characterisation, and applications / C. Bradac ... [et al.] -- ch. 5. Nanorods of vanadium compounds : synthesis, characterisation, and application in electrochemical energy storage / Alexey M. Glushenkov ... [et al.] -- ch. 6. Fabrication of metal nanoparticles by laser ablation / Mushtaq A. Sobhan ... [et al.] -- ch. 7. Synthesis and application of hollow nanostructured silica / Jian Liu, Shi Zhang Qiao, and Gao Qing (Max) Lu -- ch. 8. Chemical synthesis of graphene : from single layers to several grams / M. Choucair and J.A. Stride -- ch. 9. Diagnosing diseases with rust : magnetic nanoparticles for biomedical imaging / M.R.J. Carroll ... [et al.] -- ch. 10. Long-lifetime luminescent nanobioprobes for advanced cytometry biosensing / Dayong Jin, Jingli Yuan, and James Piper -- ch. 11. Metal nanostructure-enhanced fluorescence and its biological applications / Wei Deng, Dayong Jin, and Ewa M. Goldys -- ch. 12. Making sense of it all : a review of olfactory biosensing / Kelly Bailey.