With the increasing growth of the algae industry and the development of algae biorefinery,
there is a growing need for high-value applications of algae-extracted biopolymers. The …

The attention in lab-on-a-chip devices with their potent application in medical engineering
has prolonged swiftly over the last ten years. Travelling through the technology …

Drug development is a long process whose main content includes drug synthesis, drug
delivery, and drug evaluation. Compared with conventional drug development procedures …

Silk fibroin (SF) was enzymatically crosslinked with tyramine-substituted silk fibroin (SF-TA)
or gelatin (G-TA) to fabricate hybrid hydrogels with tunable gelation kinetics, mechanical …

Recent studies have shown that basic cellular behavior varies significantly between two-and
three-dimensional culture systems. To identify the origins of these fundamental differences …

Droplet-based microfluidic systems have been shown to be compatible with many chemical
and biological reagents and capable of performing a variety of “digital fluidic” operations that …

Considerable effort has been directed towards developing novel drug delivery systems.
Microfluidics, capable of generating monodisperse single and multiple emulsion droplets …

This review is written to fulfill the need of a comprehensive guide for the manufacture of
porous polymer particles. The synthesis section discusses and for the first time compares …

Alginate is a biopolymer that has exceptional gelling properties, which allow easy gel
formation under safe and mild conditions. Consequently, it is often used to encapsulate a …

Written at a level comprehensible to non-experts, this handbook covers the current state of
encapsulation and controlled released technologies, presenting the fundamental processes …