Tabriz University of Medical Sciences BioImpacts 2228-5652 6 4 2016 12 31 Nanoparticle patterning for biomedicine 183 185 10.15171/bi.2016.24 EN S. Moein Moghimi EDITORIAL 10.15171/bi.2016.24 2016 12 23 2016 12 26 Nanoparticles are being used for construction of complex and higher-order functional structures and metamaterials with applications in nanophotonics, information storage and biomedicine, to name a few. These innovations are briefly discussed within the context of future diagnostic and nanomedicine platform technologies and their possible self-assembly in vivo.