A hollow fiber sampling inlet end of capillary electrophoresis (CE) for small ions in complex samples is described. A short piece of hollow fiber, which only permits small ions to pass through its wall, was directly connected to one end of a capillary. Small ions in complex samples were injected into the capillary through the hollow fiber by an electrokinetic method. The experimental results of...

Optical pulses with 1.1-mJ energy and 5.5-fs duration have been generated at 1-kHz repetition rate from a chirped pulse amplification Ti:Sapphire laser incorporating a differentially pumped hollow-fiber chirped-mirror compressor. The effects of self-focusing and multi-photon ionization during the beam propagation were minimized by differentially pumping the hollow fiber filled with neon. The sp...

PURPOSE An important step in the development of liposome-based formulations is estimating the free drug concentration in the aqueous solution surrounding liposomes. This research presents a new method for determination of free concentrations, based on membrane-protected solid-phase microextraction (SPME). METHODS For effective direct extraction of low molecular weight compounds from complex l...

• The air gap effect on PVDF hollow fiber membranes is much more evident for the dope solution with the high PVP concentration than low PVP concentration. • Large macro-voids/cavities in PVDF hollow fiber membranes are suppressed to the finger-like macro-voids and the separation layer is thickened when increasing PVP concentration in dope solution. • The hydrophilicity and viscosity of polymer ...

PURPOSE Hollow fiber assays offer an early in vivo method of anticancer drug screening. The assays have been optimized for human cancers originating from the lung, breast, colon, ovary, and brain, but not from the stomach and liver. The current study focused on optimization of hollow fiber assays for gastric and hepatocellular carcinoma cell lines. MATERIALS AND METHODS Gastric (SNU-16, SNU-4...

Liquid phase-based microextraction techniques (LPµETs) have attracted great attention from the scientific community since their invention and implementation mainly due to high efficiency, low solvent sample amount, enhanced selectivity precision, good reproducibility for a wide range of analytes. This review explores different possibilities applications LPμETs including dispersive liquid–liquid...

In this work, ceramic hollow fiber supported polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) composite membranes were developed by dip-coating PDMS layer on the surface of macroporous ceramic hollow fiber support. By controlling the properties of polymer solution and ceramic hollow fiber, high-quality ceramic hollow fiber supported PDMS composite membranes were fabricated for pervaporation (PV) recovery of biobuta...

We investigate four-wave mixing in hydrogen gas using a gas cell and a hollow fiber for the generation of high-energy, multicolor femtosecond (fs) optical pulses. Both a hydrogen-filled gas cell and hollow fiber lead to the generation of multicolor fs pulses in a broad spectral range from the deep ultraviolet to the near infrared. However, there is a difference in the energy distribution of the...