Novel Membrane Emulsification: Principles, Preparation, Processes, and Bioapplications

Comprehensive resource presenting state-of-the-art of membrane emulsification technology, from principle to practice, with focus on biomedical applications

Novel Membrane Emulsification: Principles, Preparation, Processes, and Bioapplications provides comprehensive coverage of membrane emulsification technology by summarizing the principle, preparation, and bioapplications through utilizing uniform particle size, introducing recent development in preparation and applications in the controlled release and delivery of protein/peptide, anticancer drugs and vaccines, and in the bioseparation media and cell culture carriers, and discussing direct, rapid, and rotary membrane emulsification equipments.

Novel Membrane Emulsification includes information on:

• Preparation of hydrophobic microspheres from O/W emulsion, hydrophilic microspheres from W/O emulsion, and microcapsules/composite microspheres from double emulsions, covering preparation from monomer and preformed polymer systems
• Preparation of small particles by rapid membrane emulsification process
• Applications of uniform particles in sustained release of protein/peptide drugs, covering strategies to improve encapsulation efficiency and maintain bioactivity of drugs
• Applications of uniform particles in anticancer drug and vaccine delivery including personalized therapeutic vaccine
• Applications of uniform particles in protein separation, covering uniform agarose microsphere for protein separation and super-porous microsphere for vaccine separation

Novel Membrane Emulsification is an essential resource for scientists and researchers in multiple fields, particularly chemistry, chemical engineering, and materials science, to advance this technique and produce novel materials with controlled characteristics. The text is also a valuable learning resource for biomedical science and bioengineering researchers and students.

Guanghui Ma is Professor and Director of State Key Laboratory of Biochemical Engineering, Institute of Process Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS). Having obtained her Ph.D degree from Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan, she started her academic career at Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology as Assistant Professor (1994). She moved to Institute of Process Engineering, CAS as a Full Professor in 2001. She was selected as an academician of CAS in 2021. Her awards include Outstanding Contribution Award from Federation of Biotechnology (AFOB) and the Second-class prize of National Invention Award.