Aoyagi, Satoka
Abe, Kiyoshi
Yamagishi, Takayuki
Iwai, Hideo
Yamaguchi, Satoru
Sunohara, Takashi
Funding for this research was provided by:
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research Grant Number)
National Institute for Materials Science ("Nanotechnology Platform" A-16-NM-0035)
Article History
Received: 28 April 2017
Revised: 26 June 2017
Accepted: 8 August 2017
First Online: 25 August 2017
Compliance with ethical standards
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: Satoka Aoyagi has received research grants from Nipro Corporation and this study was partly funded by Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) KAKENHI Grant Number JP17K05908. Hideo Iwai and this study were partly funded by National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS) microstructural characterization platform as a program of “Nanotechnology Platform” of the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT), Japan.The other co-authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.
: All procedures performed in studies involving human participants were in accordance with the ethical standards of the ethical committee of Seikei University and with the 1964 Helsinki declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards.Informed consent was obtained from all individual participants included in the study.