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This book results from the symposium "Nanomaterials for Biological, Pharmaceutical and Biomedical Applications" held at the 240th ACS National Meeting in Boston, MA on August 22-26, 2010. The symposium was sponsored by the ACS Division of Colloid and Surface Chemistry as part of its continuing symposia series on nanoscience and nanotechnology. The symposium included technical sessions devoted to synthesis of nanoparticles, biomolecular functionalization of
nanoparticles, nanoparticle for detection of biomolecules and cells, applications of gold nanoparticles, applications of magnetic nanomaterials, nanoparticle-cell interactions, polymer nanoparticles for drug delivery, and nanoparticle applications in gene delivery, diagnostic imaging, molecular diagnostics,
therapeutics, etc. Over 90 papers were presented at this symposium, and the book chapters represent a sampling of problems addressed.
The application of nanoparticles to biomedicine has become a distinct and extremely active area of scientific and technological development over the last ten years. A Web of Science keyword search reveals the dramatic increase in the number of studies related to applications of nanoparticles for drug delivery and imaging over the last decade, the correspondingly increasing investigations of nanoparticle toxicity, and a growing interest in nanoparticles for combined diagnostics and
therapeutics.

Contents:

Preface ; 1. Biochemistry and Biomedical Applications of Spherical Nucleic Acids ; (SNAs) ; Will Briley, Tiffany L. Halo, Pratik S. Randeria, Ali H. Alhasan, Evelyn Auyeung, ; Sarah J. Hurst, and Chad A. Mirkin ; 2. Assembly of Virus Particles and Virus-like Particles as Templates for ; Biomedical Applications ; L. Andrew Lee, Elizabeth Balizan, Yuan Lin, and Qian Wang ; 3. Glucan Particles as Carriers of Nanoparticles for Macrophage-Targeted ; Delivery ; Ernesto Soto and Gary Ostroff ; 4. Glyconanoparticles for Gene Delivery ; Marya Ahmed and Ravin Narain ; 5. Bioconjugated Gold Nanoparticle for Rapid Capture and Targeted ; Photothermal Lysis of Pathogenic Bacteria ; Paresh Chandra Ray, Sadia Afrin Khan, Anant Kumar Singh, Dulal Senapati, ; Zhen Fan, Teresa Demeritte, and Rajashekhar Kanchanapally ; 6. Historical Overview of the First Two Waves of Bactericidal Agents and ; Development of the Third Wave of Potent Disinfectants ; J. Liu, K. Chamakura, R. Perez-Ballestero, and S. Bashir ; 7. Application of Carbon Nanotubes to Wound Healing Biotechnology ; Trevor J. Simmons, Christopher J. Rivet, Gurtej Singh, Julie Beaudet, Eric Sterner, ; Daniela Guzman, Daniel P. Hashim, Sang-Hyun Lee, Guoguang Qian, Kim M. Lewis, ; Pankaj Karande, Pulickel M. Ajayan, Ryan J. Gilbert, Jonathan S. Dordick, and ; Robert J. Linhardt ; 8. Laser-Induced Rupture of Infrared Dye-Doped Liposomes ; Honoh Suzuki, I-Yin Sandy Lee, and Takuro Sakai ; 9. Polysaccharide Functionalized Magnetic Nanoparticles for Cell Labeling ; and Tracking: A New Three-Dimensional Cell-Array System for Toxicity ; Testing ; Y. Miyamoto, Y. Koshidaka, H. Noguchi, K. Oishi, H. Saito, H. Yukawa, N. Kaji, ; T. Ikeya, H. Iwata, Y. Baba, K. Murase, and S. Hayashi