Hydrophobic silicone elastomer chamber for recording trajectories of motile porcine sperms without adsorption.

Hydrophobic silicone elastomer chamber for recording

3 Koji MATSUURA, Yuka KURODA, Keisuke YAMASHITA, Hiroaki FUNAHASHI 3 4 5 Research Core for Interdisciplinary Sciences, Okayama University, Okayama, Japan 6 Department of Animal Science, Faculty of Agriculture, Okayama University, Okayama, Japan 7 Department of Animal Science, Graduate School of Natural Sciences and Technologies, 8 Okayama University, Okayama, Japan 9 10 Running head: Porcine Mo...

Modeling hydrophobic recovery of electrically discharged polydimethylsiloxane elastomers.

Theoretical models are proposed to account for the hydrophobic recovery kinetics of electrically discharged silicone elastomers, in which the effects of both the diffusion and adsorption of in situ produced low molecular weight (LMW) species are considered. A homogeneous solid diffusion model or a pore diffusion model well represents the surface restructuring of silicone elastomers exposed to p...

Study of Fibroblast Cells Behavior on the Acrylic Acid Co2 Pulsed Laser Grafted Silicone Elastomer for Tissue Engineering Application

Microfluidic Device Increases Sperm Concentration by Optimization of Chamber Structure

Intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI) is an extremely timeconsuming and tedious procedure in cases of oligozoospermia, because it is difficult to obtain a sufficient number of motile sperms. To circumvent this difficulty, we previously developed a microfluidic device to increase sperm concentration and reduce time required for ICSI. Here, we improved this device by carefully optimizing its di...

Functionalization of polydimethylsiloxane membranes to be used in the production of voice prostheses

The voice is produced by the vibration of vocal cords which are located in the larynx. Therefore, one of the major consequences for patients subjected to laryngectomy is losing their voice. In these cases, a synthetic one-way valve set (voice prosthesis) can be implanted in order to allow restoration of speech. Most voice prostheses are produced with silicone-based materials such as polydimethy...