1. Introduction: Smart materials in biomedicine 2. Smart polymeric nanoparticles 3. Smart liposomes for drug delivery 4. Pharmacologically-active plant-derived natural products 5. Nanostructured cyanoacrylates: biomedical applications 6. Applications of carbon nanotubes in the biomedical field 7. Carbon nanomaterials for nanomedicine 8. Silica nanoparticles applications in the biomedical field 9. Magnetic nanoparticles and their bio-applications 10. TiO2 nanotube arrays as smart platforms for biomedical applications 11. Antioxidant Inorganic nanoparticles and their potential applications in biomedicine 12. Zinc oxide nanostructures in biomedicine 13. Smart inorganic nanoparticles for wireless cell stimulation 14. Nano-sized optical thermometers 15. Advanced optical microscopy techniques for the investigation of cell-nanoparticle interactions