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Porous Silicon in Immunoisolation and Bio-filtration

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This chapter focuses on cell immunoisolation and bio-filtration applications of porous silicon membranes. After an introduction on immunoisolation for the treatment of diabetes, the different materials used for that function are reviewed and compared. Applications involving porous silicon are then presented in more detail. Other uses of microfabricated porous silicon membranes in hemofiltration and protein sorting are also discussed.

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  1. Department of Chemistry, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, Bruxelles, 1050, Belgium

    Julien Schweicher

  2. Department of Bioengineering and Therapeutic Sciences, University of California, San Francisco, 1050, CA, USA

    Tejal A. Desai

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Schweicher, J., Desai, T.A. (2014). Porous Silicon in Immunoisolation and Bio-filtration. In: Canham, L. (eds) Handbook of Porous Silicon. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-05744-6_94

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