1. Recent developments in nanoparticulate drug delivery systems / Yashwant Pathak -- 2. Polymeric nanoparticles for small-molecule drugs : biodegradation of polymers and fabrication of nanoparticles / Sheetal R. D'Mello, Sudip K. Das, and Nanita G. Das -- 3. Formulation of NPDDS for macro molecules / Maria Eugenia Meirinhos Cruz. [et al.] -- 4. Formulation of NPDDS for gene delivery / Ajoy Koomer -- 5. NPDDS for cancer treatment : targeting nanoparticles, a novel approach / Karthikeyan Subramani -- 6. Design and formulation of protein-based NPDDS / Satheesh K. Podaralla, Radhey S. Kaushik, and Omathanu P. Perumal -- 7. Gold nanoparticles and surfaces : nanodevices for diagnostics and therapeutics / Hariharasudhan D. Chirra, Dipti Biswal, and Zach Hilt -- 8. NPDDS for the treatment of diabetes / Karthikeyan Subramani -- 9. Nanosystems for dermal and transdermal drug delivery / Venkata Vamsi Venuganti and Omathanu P. Perumal -- 10. In vitro evaluation of NPDDS / R.S.R. Murthy -- 11. In vitro characterization of nanoparticle cellular interaction / R.S.R. Murthy and Yashwant Pathak -- 12. In vitro blood interaction and pharmacological and toxicological characterization of nanosystems / R.S.R. Murthy and Yashwant Pathak -- 13. In vivo evaluations of solid lipid nanoparticles and microemulsions / Maria Rosa Gasco, Alessandro Mauro, and Gian Paolo Zara -- 14. Microscopic and spectroscopic characterization of nanoparticles / Jose E. Herrera and Nataphan Sakulchaicharoen -- 15. Introduction to analytical scanning transmission electron microscopy and nanoparticle characterization / Zhiqiang Chen, Jinsong Wu, and Yashwant Pathak -- 16. Structural fingerprinting of nanocrystals in the transmission electron microscope : utilizing information on projected reciprocal lattice geometry, 2D symmetry, and structure factors / Peter Moeck and Sergei Rouvimov -- 17. Mechanical properties of nanostructures / Vladimir Dobrokhotov -- 18. Fullerene-based nanostructures : a novel high-performance platform technology for magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) / Krishan Kumar. [et al.] -- 19. Semiconducting quantum dots for bioimaging / Dabasis Bera, Lei Quian, and Paul H. Holloway -- 20. Application of near infrared fluorescence bioimaging in nanosystems / Eunah Kang, Ick Chan Kwon, and Kwangmeyung Kim.