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List of Contributors xxi Preface xxvii 1 Studies On Biocompatible Surface-Active Silica Aerogel and Polyurethaneâ??Siloxane Cross-Linked Structures for Various Surfaces 1 K. Seeni Meera, R. Murali Sankar, S. N. Jaisankar, and Asit Baran Mandal 2 Interaction of Anesthetics with Globular Proteins 17 Makoto Nishimoto, Michio Yamanaka, and Hitoshi Matsuki 3 Lipid Monolayer and Interaction with Anesthetics 36 Yasushi Yamamoto and Keijiro Taga 4 Atomic Force Microscopy for Measuring Interaction Forces in Biological Materials and Cells 59 Naoyuki Ishida, Yasuyuki Kusaka, Tomonori Fukasawa, and Hiroyuki Shinto 5 Bacterial Interactions 68 Masanori Toyofuku, Yosuke Tashiro, Tomohiro Inaba, and Nobuhiko Nomura 6 2D and 3D Biocompatible Polymers for Biomedical Devices 82 Masaru Tanaka 7 Biofilm 94 Hisao Morisaki 8 Use of Microorganisms for Complex ORE Beneficiation: Bioflotation as an Example 108 Akira Otsuki 9 Biofouling 118 Kazuho Nakamura 10 Bioinspired Microemulsions and Their Strategic Pharmacological Perspectives 122 Soumik Bardhan, Kaushik Kundu, Gulmi Chakraborty, Bidyut K. Paul, Satya P. Moulik, and Swapan K. Saha 11 Development of Nonfouling Biomaterials 145 Ruey-Yug Tsay and Toyoko Imae 12 Surface Characterization of Silver and Fe3O4 Nanoparticles Incorporated into Collagen-based Scaffolds as Biomaterials for Tissue Regeneration: State-of-the-Art and Future Perspectives 161 Abhishek Mandal, N. Chandrasekaran, Amitava Mukherjee, and Thothapalli P. Sastry 13 Biomimetic Polymer Aggregates: Self-Assembly Induced by Chemical Reactions 181 Eri Yoshida 14 Molecular Interaction in Biomimetics and Biosystems: Chirality and Confinement at Nanodimension 195 Nilashis Nandi and Saheb Dutta 15 Softinterface on Biosensing 211 Yukichi Horiguchi and Yukio Nagasaki 16 Bioseparation Using Thermoresponsive Polymers 220 Kenichi Nagase and Teruo Okano 17 Biosurfactants 231 Etsuo Kokufuta 18 Structure and Regulation of the Blood-Brain Barrier 244 Yung-Chih Kuo, Chin-Lung Lee, and Jyh-Ping Hsu 19 Boron Tracedrugs as Theranostic Agents for Neutron Dynamic Therapy 255 Hitoshi Hori and Hiroshi Terada 20 Carbohydrates as Biocolloids in Nanoscience 260 Zaheer Khan, Shokit Hussain, Ommer Bashir, and Shaeel Ahmed Al-Thabaiti 21 High-Strength Poly(Vinyl Alcohol) Hydrogels for Artificial Cartilage 269 Atsushi Suzuki and Teruo Murakami 22 Superior Tribological Behaviors of Articular Cartilage and Artificial Hydrogel Cartilage 278 Teruo Murakami and Atsushi Suzuki 23 Self-Assembled Cell-Mimicking Vesicles Composed of Amphiphilic Molecules: Structure and Applications 292 Swati De and Ranju Prasad Mandal 24 Integrin-Dependent Cell Regulation and its Clinical Application 313 Takuya Iyoda, Takuya Matsunaga, and Fumio Fukai 25 Depth Profile of Kr+-Irradiated Chitosan 325 Kazunaka Endo 26 Electronic Structure of Chitosan 331 Kazunaka Endo 27 Aligned Fibrillar Collagen Matrices 340 Ralf Zimmermann, Jens Friedrichs, Babette Lanfer, Uwe Freudenberg, and Carsten Werner 28 Colloidal Crystallization 355 Tsuneo Okubo 29 Dielectric Properties of Biological Macromolecules and Biomolecule-Water Interfaces 380 Brandon Campbell, Lin Li, and Emil Alexov 30 NMR of Drug Delivery Coupled with Lipid Membrane Dynamics 391 Emiko Okamura 31 Stimulus-Responsive Intelligent Drug Delivery System Based on Hydroxyapatite-Related Materials 403 Makoto Otsuka 32 Drying Structure 412 Tsuneo Okubo 33 Electrophoretic Mobility of Colloidal Particles 430 Hiroyuki Ohshima 34 Electrostatic Interaction Between Colloidal Particles 439 Hiroyuki Ohshima 35 Physicochemical Properties and Clinical Applications Of Surfactant-Free Emulsions Prepared with Electrolytic Reduction IonWater (ERI) 451 Ken-ichi Shimokawa and Fumiyoshi Ishii 36 Steady-State Coupling in Enzyme Membrane 459 Kazuo Nomura 37 Evaluation of Zeta-Potential of Individual Exosomes Secreted from Biological Cells Using a Microcapillary Electrophoresis Chip 469 Takanori Akagi and Takanori Ichiki 38 Flocculation Dynamics on the Basis of Collision-Limited Analysis 474 Yasuhisa Adachi 39 Anisotropic Gel Formation Induced by Dialysis 487 Toshiaki Dobashi and Takao Yamamoto 40 Gels 498 Etsuo Kokufuta 41 Gel Crystals 514 Tsuneo Okubo 42 Oleic Acid-Based Surfactants as Cost-Effective Gemini Surfactants 529 Kenichi Sakai and Masahiko Abe 43 Synthesis and Properties of Heterocyclic Cationic Gemini Surfactants 539 Avinash Bhadani, Sukhprit Singh, Hideki Sakai, and Masahiko Abe 44 Functional Hydrogel Microspheres 554 Daisuke Suzuki, Takuma Kureha, and Koji Horigome 45 Hydrophilic-Lipophilic Balance (HLB): Classical Indexation and Novel Indexation of Surfactant 570 Yuji Yamashita and Kazutami Sakamoto Index 000 List of Contributors xix Preface xxv 46 Insulin Fibrillation and Role of Peptides and Small Molecules in its Inhibition Process 575 Victor Banerjee and K.P. Das 47 Interfacial Water Between Charge-Neutralized Polymer and Liquid Water 592 Hiromi Kitano and Makoto Gemmei-Ide 48 Langmuir Monolayer Interaction of Perfluorooctylated Long-Chain Alcohols With Biomembrane Constituents 597 Hiromichi Nakahara and Osamu Shibata 49 Affinity Latex 609 Haruma Kawaguchi 50 Latex Diagnosis 614 Haruma Kawaguchi 51 Light Scattering and Electrophoretic Light Scattering of Biopolymers 619 Etsuo Kokufuta 52 Impact of Line Tension on Colloidal Systems 628 Hiroki Matsubara, Takanori Takiue, and Makoto Aratono 53 Liquid Structures and Properties of Lipids 642 Makio Iwahashi 54 Birefringence in Lipid Bilayer Membranes 661 Kiyoshi Mishima 55 Surface States of Lipid Monolayers Containing Gangliosides 674 Shoko Yokoyama 56 Liponanocapsule: A Nanocapsule Built From a Liposomal Template 684 Yuuka Fukui and Keiji Fujimoto 57 Physical Phenomena of Magnetic Suspensions for Application to Bioengineering 690 Akira Satoh 58 Ion-Sensing Membrane Electrodes in Study of Surfactant-Biopolymer Interaction 704 Sudeshna M. Chatterjea, Koustubh Panda, and Satya P. Moulik 59 Membrane Potential as a Function of Dielectric Constant 721 Akihiko Tanioka and Hidetoshi Matsumoto 60 Biophysical Studies of a Micellar Protein α-Crystallin by Fluorescence Methods 737 Aritra Chowdhury, Rajat Banerjee, and K.P. Das 61 Modeling Muscle Contraction Mechanism in Accordance with Sliding-Filament Theory 753 Toshio Mitsui and Hiroyuki Ohshima 62 Nanocarriers of Functional Materials From Amino Acid Surfactants 771 Geetha Baskar, S. Angayarkanny, and Asit Baran Mandal 63 Syntheses of Metallic Nanocolloids and the Quenching Abilities of Reactive Oxygen Species 784 Yukihide Shiraishi and Naoki Toshima 64 Silver and Gold Nanocomposites: Amino Acid Sidechain Effect on Morphology 790 Zoya Zaheer and Rafiuddin 65 Nanogel, an Internally Networked Poly(Amino Acid) Nanoparticle for pH-Responsive Delivery 799 Jong-Duk Kim and Chan Woo Park 66 Strategies of Metal Nanoparticles for Nanobiology 812 Daisuke Matsukuma and Hidenori Otsuka 67 On-Chip Electrophoresis for Evaluating Zeta-Potential of Nanoliposomes 821 Takanori Akagi and Takanori Ichiki 68 Phase Separation in Phospholipid Bilayers Induced by Cholesterol 825 Nobutake Tamai, Masaki Goto, and Hitoshi Matsuki 69 Phase Separation Phenomena in Drug Systems 841 Andleeb Z. Naqvi and Kabir-ud-Din 70 Bilayer Imaging of Phosphatidylcholines by High-Pressure Fluorometry 860 Masaki Goto, Nobutake Tamai, and Hitoshi Matsuki 71 Physiological and Molecular Aspects of Mechanisms Involved in Plant Response to Salt Stress 870 Xiaoli Tang, Xingmin Mu, Hongbo Shao, Hongyan Wang, and Marian Brestic 72 Interfacial Phenomena of Pulmonary Surfactant Preparations 885 Hiromichi Nakahara, Sannamu Lee, and Osamu Shibata 73 Using Thin Liquid Film for Study of Pulmonary Surfactants 905 Dotchi Exerowa, Roumen Todorov, and Dimo Platikanov 74 Probing Receptor-Ligand Interactions on a Single Molecule Level Using Optical Tweezers 915 Tim Stangner, Carolin Wagner, Christof Gutsche, Konstanze Stangner, David Singer, Stefano Angioletti-Uberti, and Friedrich Kremer 75 AC Electrokinetics of Concentrated Suspensions of Soft and Hairy Nanoparticles: Model and Experiments 933 Silvia Ahualli, Angel V. Delgado, Félix Carrique, and María Luisa Jimenez 76 Electrophoretic Behavior of pH-Regulated Soft Biocolloids 946 Li-Hsien Yeh and Jyh-Ping Hsu 77 Electrophoretic Mobility of Soft Particles 961 Kimiko Makino and Hiroyuki Ohshima 78 Potential Distribution Around a Hard Particle and a Soft Particle 970 Hiroyuki Ohshima 79