1. Carbon at the nanoscale / Alexander Ya. Vul' and Olga A. Shenderova -- 2. Technology of preparation of detonation nanodiamond / Aleksandr E. Aleksenskii -- 3. Methods of characterization and models of nanodiamond particles / Marina V. Baidakova -- 4. Optical and rheological properties of nanodiamond suspensions / Alexander Ya. Vul' and Evgeniy D. Eydelman -- 5. Raman and photoluminescence spectroscopy of detonation nanodiamonds / Igor I. Vlasov and Olga A. Shenderova -- 6. Study of detonation nanodiamonds by electron paramagnetic resonance / Alexander I. Shames -- 7. Nuclear magnetic resonance in nanodiamonds / Alexander M. Panich -- 8. Magnetic and structural studies of multilayered nanographites prepared from detonation nanodiamond / Vladimir Yu. Osipov -- 9. Applications of detonation nanodiamonds / Artur T. Dideikin -- 10. Biomedical application of nanodiamonds : reality and perspectives / Levon B. Piotrovskiy, Dmitrii N. Nikolaev, and Olga A. Shenderova.