Samples Temperature/°C Squeezing Setting Inlet Column (a) Prepared by dissolving agar powder in water – 95 60 60 (b) Squeezed from 2.3 wt% agar gel 25 r.t. 30 30 (c) Squeezed…

Fig. 13.1 Schematic illustration of IS-FET Recently, FET biosensors are being studied and developed to apply for clinical diagnosis, drug discovery, tissue engineering, and so on. Since FET biosensors can…

Fig. 8.1 Various water structures and slow dynamics in aqueous materials. Examples of dynamics for protein molecules are also shown The dynamics of water molecules interacting with biopolymers in biological…

Fig. 2.1 Schematic illustration of effective interaction energy u(r) between monomers Fig. 2.2 Schematic illustrations of phase diagram for a UCST-type polymer-solvent system (a) and an LCST-type polymer-solvent system (b)….

Fig. 11.1 CLSM images of CG (a), C-PG (b), CH-G (c), and CH-PG (d) particles (Modified from Wei et al. [107] with permission from John Wiley and Sons Besides emulsification,…

Fig. 14.1 Schematic diagram of an optical system of an epi-illuminated fluorescence microscope While the principles of fluorescence microscopy have already been established, both fluorescent dyes and video cameras are…

Fig. 9.1 Frequency dependences of real (a) and imaginary (b) parts of dielectric function for 65 wt% PVP-water mixture at 298 K. Pluses; data obtained by experiments. The lines were drawn using…

Fig. 10.1 Illustration of microencapsulation by interfacial polymerization in O/W emulsion Several methods are known to substantially produce monodisperse emulsions and therefore monodisperse microcapsules. Emulsification using Shirasu porous glass (SPG)…

Fig. 12.1 A strategy for constructing engineered tissues (Adapted from Langer and Vacanti [1]). Copyright 1993 AAAS Various methods have been developed to fabricate cell scaffolds featuring multi-scale structures. To…