Abstract: Provided is a transplantation device comprising a hydrogel in which insulin-secreting cells or pancreatic islets are enclosed, wherein the hydrogel is prepared by gelatinizing an alginic acid derivative by a chemical crosslinkage. Thus, a novel transplantation device is provided.

Abstract: The present invention provides a carbon nanohorn complex that is excellent in characteristics of adsorption or inclusion of drugs and release, in particular, a sustained release of drugs as a novel drug carrier in drug delivery systems, as well as a process for producing the complex. The complex of drug and carbon nanohorns comprises a steroidal or metal-containing drug being adsorbed onto the oxidized carbon nanohorns, or included in pores opened thereof.

Abstract: The present invention provides a carbon nanohorn complex that is excellent in characteristics of adsorption or inclusion of drugs and release, in particular, a sustained release of drugs as a novel drug carrier in drug delivery systems, as well as a process for producing the complex. The complex of drug and carbon nanohorns comprises a steroidal or metal-containing drug being adsorbed onto the oxidized carbon nanohorns, or included in pores opened thereof.

Abstract: The objects of this patent application are to provide a new nano-extraction method for guest molecules to be incorporated into single-wall carbon nanotube (SWNT) comprising: putting guest molecules in solvent, wherein the guest molecules have a poor affinity to the solvent and a strong affinity to single-wall carbon nanotube (SWNT) and the attractive force between the guest molecules and SWNT is greater than that between the guest molecules and solvent molecules and that between the solvent molecules and SWNT, ultrasonicating the solution including the solvent and quest molecules, adding single-wall carbon nanotube (SWNT) or single-wall carbon nanotubes (SWNTs) with opened tips and wall-holes in the solution, and leaving the SWNT-guest molecules-solvent mixture until becoming stable with the guest molecules incorporated into SWNT at room temperature, and a nano-condensation method for guest molecules to be incorporated into single-wall carbon nanotube (SWNT) comprising: dropping saturated solution including s