Content: PREFACE; INTRODUCTION; 1. Challenges for Chemical and Biological Protection; CHARLES A. BASS JR; 2. Assessment of Nanotechnology for Chemical Biological Defense; WALTER ZUKAS, CATHERINE CABRERA, JAMES HARPER, RODERICK KUNZ, THEODORE LYSZCZARZ, LALITHA PARAMESWARAN, MORDECHAI ROTHSCHILD, MICHAEL SENNETT, MICHAEL SWITKES, AND HEMA VISWANATH; DETECTION OF CHEMICAL AND BIOLOGICAL AGENTS; 3. Piezoelectric-excited Millimeter-sized Cantilever (PEMC) Sensors for Detecting Bioterrorism Agents; GOSSETT CAMPBELL, DAVID MARALDO, AND RAJ MUTHARASAN; 4. Conducting Polymer and Polymer/CNT Composite Nanofibers by Electrospinning; MINOO NAEBE, TONG LIN, LIANFANG FENG, LIMING DAI, ALEXIS ABRAMSON, VIKAS PRAKASH, XUNGIA WANG; 5. Device Structures Composed of Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes; PORNNIPA VICHCHULADA, DEEPA VAIRAVAPANDIAN AND MARCUS D. LAY; 6. Hand Held Biowarfare Assays. Rapid Biowarfare Detection Using the Combined Attributes of Microfluidic in vitro Selections and Immunochromatographic Assays; LETHA J. SOOTER*, DIMITRA N. STRATIS-CULLUM, YANTING ZHANG, JEFFREY J. RICE, JOHN T. BALLEW, HYONGSOK T. SOH, PATRICK S. DAUGHERTY, PAUL PELLEGRINO, NANCY STAGLIANO; 7. Portable Analytical Systems for On-Site Diagnosis of Exposure to Pesticides and Nerve Agents; YUEHE LIN, JUN WANG, GUODONG LIU, CHARLES TIMCHALK; 8. Novel Nanoarray SERS Substrates Used for High Sensitivity Virus Biosensing and Classification; J. D. DRISKELL, S. SHANMUKH, Y. LIU, S. CHANEY, S. HENNIGAN, L. JONES, D. KRAUSE, R. A. TRIPP, Y.-P. ZHAO, AND R. A. DLUHY; 9. Gold Nanoparticle Based Surface Energy Transfer Probe for Accurate Identification of Biological Agents DNA; PARESH CHANDRA RAY, GOPALA KRISHNA DARBHA, OLEG TOVMACHENKO , UMA SHANKER RAI , JELANI GRIFFIN, WILLIAM HARDY AND ANA BALAREZO; 10. Enhanced Raman Detection using Spray-On Nanoparticles/Remote Sensed Raman Spectroscopy; MICHAEL L. RAMIREZ, LEONARDO C. PACHECO, MARCOS A. BARRETO AND SAMUEL P. HERNANDEZ-RIVERA; 11. Virus Nanoparticles for Signal Enhancement in Microarray Biosensors; AMY SZUCHMACHER BLUM, CARISSA M. SOTO, GARY J. VORA, KIM E. SAPSFORD, AND BANAHALLI R. RATNA; 12. Novel GaN-based Chemical Sensors for Long-range Chemical Threat Detection; K.-A. SON, B. H. YANG, N. PROKOPUK, J. S. MOON, A. LIAO, M. GALLEGOS, J. W. YANG, T. KATONA, AND M. A. KHAN; 13. Solid Supported Polydiacetylene Materials for Detection of Biological Targets. New Material Forms and Detection Examples; MARY A. REPPY AND BRADFORD A. PINDZOLA; 14. Porous Silicon Waveguides for Small Molecule Detection; SHARON M. WEISS AND GUOGUANG RONG; 15. A Microfluidic Sensor Array for Ricin Detection; Z. HUGH FAN, QIAN MEI, SHOUGUANG JIN; 16. Enhanced Raman Scattering of Nitroexplosives on Metal Oxides and Nanoparticles of Ag/TiO2; SAMUEL P. HERNANDEZ-RIVERA, EDWIN DE LA CRUZ-MONTOYA, GABRIEL A. PEREZ-ACOSTA AND JACQUELINE I. JEREZ-ROZO; 17. Enhanced Raman Scattering of TNT on Nanoparticles Substrates: Ag, Au and Bimetallic Au/Ag Colloidal Suspensions; OLIVA M. PRIMERA-PEDROZO, ANA MARIA CHAMOUN-EMANUELLI, JACKELINE I. JEREZ-ROZO, MARCOS A. BARRETO-CABAN AND SAMUEL P. HERNANDEZ-RIVERA; PROTECTION FROM CHEMICAL AND BIOLOGICAL AGENTS; 18. Catalytic Removal of Ethylene Oxide from Contaminated Airstreams by Alkali-Treated H-ZSM-5; GREGORY W. PETERSON, CHRISTOPHER J. KARWACKI, JOSEPH A. ROSSIN, AND WILLIAM B. FEAVER; 19. Applications of Nanocrystalline Zeolites to CWA Decontamination; V.H. GRASSIAN AND S.C. LARSEN; 20. Effect of the average pore size on the adsorption capacity and offgassing; CHARACTERISTICS OF ACTIVATED CARBON FABRICS FOR DECONTAMINATION OF SURFACES; BRIAN MACIVER, RALPH B. SPAFFORD, JAMES MINICUCCI, RONALD WILLEY, ADAM KULCZYK, AND ROBERT KAISER; 21. Nanostructured Chem-Bio Non-Woven Filter; F. TEPPER AND L. KALEDIN; 22. Polymeric Membranes: Surface Modification by "Grafting to" Method and Fabrication of Multilayered Assemblies; OLEKSANDR BURTOVYY, VIKTOR KLEP, TACIBAHT TUREL, YASSER GOWAYED, IGOR LUZINOV; 23. Polymer-Polymer Nanocomposite Membranes as Breathable Barriers with Electro-Sensitive Permeability; HONG CHEN, AFLAL M. RAHMATHULLAH, GIUSEPPE R. PALMESE, AND YOSSEF A. BELABD*; 24. Scanning atmospheric plasma processes for surface decontamination and superhydrophobic deposition; SEONG H. KIM, JEONG-HOON KIM, AND BANG-KWON KANG; INDEXES; AUTHOR INDEX; SUBJECT INDEX