Recent Developments in Nanoparticulate Drug Delivery Systems; Yashwant Pathak Polymeric Nanoparticles for Small-Molecule Drugs: Biodegradation of Polymers and Fabrication of Nanoparticles; Sheetal R. D'Mello, Sudip K. Das, and Nandita G. Das Formulation of NPDDS for Macromolecules; Maria Eugenia Meirinhos Cruz, Sandra Isabel Simoes, Maria Luisa Corvo, Maria Barbara Figueira Martins, and Maria Manuela Gaspar Formulation of NPDDS for Gene Delivery; Ajoy Koomer NPDDS for Cancer Treatment: Targeting Nanoparticles, a Novel Approach; Karthikeyan Subramani Design and Formulation of Protein-Based NPDDS; Satheesh K. Podaralla, Radhey S. Kaushik, and Omathanu P. Perumal Gold Nanoparticles and Surfaces: Nanodevices for Diagnostics and Therapeutics; Hariharasudhan D. Chirra, Dipti Biswal, and Zach Hilt NPDDS for the Treatment of Diabetes; Karthikeyan Subramani Nanosystems for Dermal and Transdermal Drug Delivery; Venkata Vamsi Venuganti and Omathanu P. Perumal In Vitro Evaluation of NPDDS; R. S. R. Murthy In Vitro Characterization of Nanoparticle Cellular Interaction; R. S. R. Murthy and Yashwant Pathak In Vitro Blood Interaction and Pharmacological and Toxicological Characterization of Nanosystems; R. S. R. Murthy and Yashwant Pathak In Vivo Evaluations of Solid Lipid Nanoparticles and Microemulsions; Maria Rosa Gasco, Alessandro Mauro, and Gian Paolo Zara Microscopic and Spectroscopic Characterization of Nanoparticles; Jose E. Herrera and Nataphan Sakulchaicharoen Introduction to Analytical Scanning Transmission Electron Microscopy and Nanoparticle Characterization; Zhiqiang Chen, Jinsong Wu, and Yashwant Pathak 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 Mechanical Properties of Nanostructures; Vladimir Dobrokhotov Fullerene-Based Nanostructures: A Novel High-Performance Platform Technology for Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI); Krishan Kumar, Darren K. MacFarland, Zhiguo Zhou, Christpher L. Kepley, Ken L.Walker, Stephen R. Wilson, and Robert P. Lenk Semiconducting Quantum Dots for Bioimaging; Debasis Bera, Lei Qian, and Paul H. Holloway Application of Near Infrared Fluorescence Bioimaging in Nanosystems; Eunah Kang, Ick Chan Kwon, and Kwangmeyung Kim Index