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Lu**g Li
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Prosthetic Vascular Grafts: Past, Present, and Future
Prosthetic vascular grafts (PVGs) have made a striking progress during the past more than 100 years. Dacron and ePTFE are the two main PVGs. Even now we enter into the endoascular era, both of the PVGs have be...
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Total Artificial Heart
Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is the leading cause of morbidity and mortality in the United States and a significant public health problem in most industrialized nations. Since 1900, it has been the leading cau...
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Drug Delivery Systems and Cardiovascular Disease
Clinically, with the treatment of cardiovascular disease in addition to surgery and interventional therapy, drug therapy is also a common means. With the development of medicine, new dosage forms and new techn...
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Polymer-Based Nanotechnology to Combat the Emergence of Drug Resistance in Bacteria
Multidrug-resistant bacteria are posing a great threat to human beings. To address that challenge, polymer-based nanomaterials have come into the spotlight recently. Polymers have a great variety in chemical c...
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Microbial Compartments and Their Biomedical Applications
Microbial compartments (MCs) are nanostructures mainly composed of proteins and functionally similar to the organelles of eukaryotes. Therefore, MCs are also termed as protein cages. In MCs, toxic or vulnerabl...
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Cell-Free Display Techniques for Protein Evolution
Cell-free protein synthesis (CFPS) with flexibility and controllability can provide a powerful platform for high-throughput screening of biomolecules, especially in the evolution of peptides or proteins. In th...
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The Flexible and Wearable Pressure Sensing Microsystems for Medical Diagnostics
The flexible wearable pressure sensor has the unique advantages of being lightweight and low cost and having good flexibility, and it has received extensive attention as a result of its great application poten...
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Biomanufacturing by In Vitro Biotransformation (ivBT) Using Purified Cascade Multi-enzymes
In vitro biotransformation (ivBT) refers to the use of an artificial biological reaction system that employs purified enzymes for the one-pot conversion of low-cost materials into biocommodities such as ethano...
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Producing N-Containing Chemicals from Biomass for High Performance Thermosets
Chemicals containing nitrogen atoms or N-containing chemicals (NCCs) are pivotal building blocks for polymers and composites that have high interest in technological fields, especially when they can be endowed...
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Downstream Processing of Medicinal Mushroom Products
Medicinal mushrooms are higher fungi that consist of ascomycetes, basidiomycetes, and imperfect fungi. They have been long used as tonic and traditional medicine in East Asia, Europe, and Africa. Contemporary ...
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Innovations to a Palm Biomass-Fueled Power Plant
The drive has inspired palm oil refineries to use palm fuels. Their usage, however, poses various challenges such as entanglement of fibers and blockage of fuel flow, as well to form clinker in furna...
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Basics of Interfacial Electrokinetics
All electrokinetic microfluidic and nanofluidic phenomena and processes are results of the interaction of the applied electrical field with the electrostatic surface charges or induced surface charges at the s...
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DC-Dielectrophoresis in Microfluidic Chips
Dielectrophoresis (DEP), different from electrophoresis, is the motion of a dielectric particle in a non-uniform electric field. Recall that a dielectric particle can be polarized by externally applied electri...
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Janus Particles and Janus Droplets
This chapter will consider particles with two different hemispheres. Such heterogeneous particles will be referred as “Janus Particles”. The name ‘‘Janus’’ is from the name of a Roman God who has two faces loo...
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Sustainable Practices of IOI Palm Oil and Palm Kernel Processing Complex in Sabah
As part of the palm oil supply chain, IOI Edible Oils Sdn. Bhd. (IOIEO) plays a vital role in , and palm kernel. IOIEO strives to improve its operations and is committed to reducing its carbon footprint. Impr...
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Differential Resistive Pulse Sensor
This chapter introduces a novel microfluidic resistive pulse sensor for detecting micro-particles and nano-particles. The key performance indicator for any sensors is the signal-to-noise (S/N) ratio. In order ...
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Alginate-Based Inhalable Particles for Controlled Pulmonary Drug Delivery
The drug delivery to the lungs for the treatment of diseases has a very long history, and it has become the priority for respiratory care and attracts much rapidly increasing attention for dealing with local a...
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Catalytic Upgrading of Bio-Based Ketonic Acids to Pyrrolidones with Hydrogen Donor Sources
Comprehensive utilization of biomass resources is necessary for the sustainable production of value-added chemicals and biofuels. For hydrogenative conversion processes, the type of hydrogen donor source among...
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Bottom-Up Synthetic Biology Using Cell-Free Protein Synthesis
Technical advances in biotechnology have greatly accelerated the development of bottom-up synthetic biology. Unlike top-down approaches, bottom-up synthetic biology focuses on the construction of a minimal cel...
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Induced Charge Electrokinetic Transport Phenomena
As we have discussed in Chap. 1, the electric double layer results from the interaction of the charged ions in the electrolyte solution with the electrostatic charges on...
