Fundamentals: A Concise Introduction to the Liquid Crystalline State of Matter (Jan Lagerwall); Nanoparticles in Liquid Crystals: A Colloid and Polymer Perspective (Paul P A M van der Schoot); A Minimum Theoretical Framework for Describing Nano- and Microinclusions in Liquid Crystals (Epifanio G Virga); Methods for Studying Liquid Crystals and Their Inclusions: Conventional and Nonlinear Optical Microscopy of Liquid Crystal Colloids (Taewoo Lee and Ivan I Smalyukh); X-ray Scattering (Goran Ungar, Zhihong Chen and Xiangbing Zeng); Light Scattering (Jun Yamamoto); Raman Spectroscopy (Helen Gleeson); Manipulation of Inclusions with Optical Tweezers (Miha Skarabot); Atomic Force Microscopy on Liquid Crystals (Christian Bahr and Benjamin Schulz); Computer Simulations of Heterogeneous Liquid Crystals (Silvia Orlandi and Claudio Zannoni); Micron Scale Inclusions in Liquid Crystals: Solid Microparticles in Bulk Liquid Crystals (Igor Musevic); Inclusions in Freely Suspended Smectic Films (Ralf Stannarius and Kirsten Harth); Liquid Crystal-Enabled Electrophoresis and Electro-Osmosis (Oleg D Lavrentovich); Nanoparticles in Liquid Crystals: Metallic and Semiconducting Nanoparticles in Liquid Crystals: An Experimental Guide (Taizo Mori, Anshul Sharma and Torsten Hegmann); Carbon Nanoparticles in Low Molar Mass Liquid Crystals (Giusy Scalia); Carbon Nanotubes Dispersed in Liquid Crystal Elastomers (Yan Ji); Nanoparticles in Discotic Liquid Crystals (Sandeep Kumar); Magnetic and Ferroelectric Nanoparticles in Liquid Crystals (Yuriy Reznikov, Anatoliy Glushchenko and Yuriy Garbovskiy); Inorganic Nanotubes and Nanorods in Liquid Crystals (Irena Drevensek-Olenik); Liquid Crystals from Mesogens Containing Gold Nanoparticles (W Lewandowski and E Gorecka; Nanoparticles and Networks Created Within Liquid Crystals (Shin-Woong Kang); Control of Nanoparticle Self-Assemblies Using Distorted Liquid Crystals (Emmanuelle Lacaze); Liquid Crystals Formed by Nanoparticle Suspensions: Nematic Phase Formation in Suspensions of Carbon Nanotubes (Cecile Zakri and Philippe Poulin); Nematic Phase Formation in Suspensions of Graphene Oxide (Stephane Campidelli); Viruses as a Model System of Colloidal Rods for Liquid Crystaline Assemblies (Eric Grelet); Nematic Phases from Cellulose Nanocrystal Suspensions (Jan P F Lagerwall and Lennart Bergstrom); Liquid Crystalline Phases in Suspensions of Pigments in Non-polar Solvents (Susanne Klein); Liquid Crystals in Dispersions of Mineral Nanorods and Platelets (Gert Jan Vroege); Liquid Crystals from Semiconducting Nanoparticles (Rudolf Zentel);