Preface ; Interaction of Nanomaterials with Biomolecules for Biosensing ; 1. The Adjuvant Effect of Emerging Nanomaterials: A Double-Edged Sword ; Hong Ren, Quanxuan Zhang, Liangyi Qie, and Gregory L. Baker ; 2. Luminescent Gold Nanodots for Detection of Heavy Metal Ions, Proteins ; and Bacteria ; Binesh Unnikrishnan and Chih-Ching Huang ; 3. Gold Nanomaterials Based Absorption and Fluorescence Detection of ; Mercury, Lead, and Copper ; Po-Cheng Chen, Prathik Roy, Li-Yi Chen, Ya-Na Chen, and Huan-Tsung Chang ; 4. Identification of the Amount of Binding Sites and Dissociation Constants ; of a Ligand-Receptor Complex Using AlGaN/GaN High Electron Mobility ; Transistors ; Chih-Cheng Huang, Geng-Yen Lee, Jen-Inn Chyi, Hui-Teng Cheng, Chen-Pin Hsu, ; Yu-Fen Huang, and Yu-Lin Wang ; Interaction of Nanomaterials with Contaminants for Treatment ; 5. Catalytic Impact of Activated Carbon on the Formation of Nitrosamines ; from Different Amine Precursors ; Ching-Hua Huang, Lokesh P. Padhye, and Yung-Li Wang ; 6. Insights into Interactions of Propranolol with Nano TiO2 ; Jingjing Du and Chuanyong Jing ; 7. Photocatalytic Degradation of Bisphenol A Using TiO2/CNTs ; Nanocomposites under UV Irradiation ; Chung-Hsuang Hung, Bo-Chao Chuang, Hsing-Lung Lien, and Ching Yuan ; 8. Iron-Based Nanomaterials for the Treatment of Emerging Environmental ; Contaminants ; Bangxing Ren, Changseok Han, Abdulaziz H. Al Anazi, Mallikarjuna N. Nadagouda, ; and Dionysios D. Dionysiou ; 9. Adsorption and Reduction of Some Aromatic Contaminants with Nanoscale ; Zerovalent Irons and Further Treatments ; Yuh-fan Su, Chih-ping Tso, Yu-huei Peng, and Yang-hsin Shih ; 10. Pollutant Degradation by Nanoscale Zero Valent Iron (nZVI): Role ; of Polyelectrolyte Stabilization and Catalytic Modification on nZVI ; Performance ; A. W. McPherson, M. N. Goltz, and A. Agrawal ; 11. Magnetic Bimetallic Fe/Ag Nanoparticles: Decontamination and ; Antimicrobial Agents ; Virender K. Sharma, Karolina M. Siskova, and Radek Zboril ; 12. Application of Zerovalent Silicon for the Dechlorination of Chlorinated ; Hydrocarbons - A Review ; Chun-Chi Lee and Ruey-an Doong ; Editors' Biographies ; Indexes ; Author Index ; Subject Index