Proceedings of a symposium held at the 234th ACS National Meeting in Boston, MA on August 19-23, 2007. Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Challenges for chemical and biological protection / Charles A. Bass Jr. -- Assessment of nanotechnology for chemical biological defense / Walter Zukas [and others] -- Piezoelectric-excited millimeter-sized cantilever (PEMC) sensors for detecting bioterrism agents / Gossett Campbell, David Maraldo, Raj Mutharasan -- Conducting polymer and polymer/CNT composite nanofibers by electrospinning / Minoo Naebe [and others] -- Device structures composed of single-walled carbon nanotubes / Pornnipa Vichulada, Deepa Vairavapandian, Marcus D. Lay -- Hand held biowarfare assays, rapid biowarfare detection using the combined attributes of microfluidc in vitro selections and immunochromatographic assays / Letha J. Sooter [and others] -- Portable analytical systems for on-site diagnosis of exposure to pesticides and nerve agents / Yuehe Lin [and others] -- Novel nanoarray SERS substrates used for high sensitivity virus biosensing and classification / J.D. Driskell [and others] -- Gold nanoparticle based surface energy transfer probe for accurate identification of biological agents DNA / Paresh Chandra Ray [and others] -- Enhanced Raman detection using spray-on nanoparticles/remote sensed Raman spectroscopy / Michael L. Ramirez [and others] -- Virus nanoparticles for signal enhancement in microarray biosensors / Amy Szuchmacher Blum [and others] -- Novel GaN-based chemical sensors for long-range chemical threat detection / K.-A. Son [and others] -- Solid supported polydiacetylene materials for detection of biological targets, new material forms and detection examples / Mary A. Reppy, Bradford A. Pindzola -- Porous sillicon waveguides for small molecule detection / Sharon M. Weiss, Guoguang Rong -- A microfluidic sensor array for ricin detection / Z. Hugh Fan, Qian Mei, Shouguang Jim -- Enhanced Raman scattering of nitroexplosives on metal oxide and nanoparticles of Ag/TiO2 / Samuel P. Hernandez-Rivera [and others] -- Enhanced Raman scattering of TNT on nanoparticles substrates : Ag, Au and bimetallic Au/Ag colloidal suspensions / Oliva M. Primera-Pedrozo [and others] -- Catalytic removal of ethylene oxide from contaminated airstreams by alkali-treated H-ZSM-5 / Gregory W. Peterson [and others] -- Applications of nanocrystalline zeolites to CWA decontamination / V.H. Grassian, S.C. Larsen -- Effect of the average pore size on the absorption capacity and offgassing characteristics of activated carbon fabrics for decontamination of surfaces / Brian MacIver [and others] -- Nanostructured chem-bio non-woven filter / F. Tepper, L. Kaledin -- Polymeric membranes : surface modification by "grafting to" method and fabrication of multilayered assemblies / Oleksand Burtovyy [and others] -- Polymer-polymer nanocomposite membranes as breathable barriers with electro-sensitive permeability / Hong Chen [and others] -- Scanning atmospheric plasma processes for surface decontamination and superhydrophobic deposition / Seong H. Kim, Jeong-Hoon Kim, Bang-Kwon Kang.