Biomedical Application of Soft Nano-/Microparticles
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,…
From Single-Molecule DNA Imaging to Development of a Gene Delivery System
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…
Dynamics and Glass Transition of Aqueous Solutions of Molecular Liquid, Polymer, and Protein Studied by Broadband Dielectric Spectroscopy
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…
Biorheological Aspect of Microcapsules
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)…
Control of the Multi-scale Structure of Scaffolds and Its Application in Tissue Engineering
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…
Introduction of Nano/Micro Science and Technology in Biorheology
Fig. 1.1 Image of nano-/micro-science and technology in biorheology regarding variation in materials, time and space, and stimulus-response function In this book, recent developments in methodologies and novel results or…
