“…The membrane of the capsule should be designed such that the required nutrients and cell products can easily pass through it (Groboillot et al, 1994;Jen et al, 1996). Encapsulation can be carried out by using either natural or synthetic polymers such as calcium alginate (Cheong et al, 1993), carrageenan-oligochitosan (Bartkowiak and Hunkeler, 2001), chitosan-CMC (Yoshioka et al, 1990), alginate-poly-L-lysine (Lim and Sun 1980), alginateoligochitosan (Bartkowiak and Hunkeler, 1999), alginateaminopropylsilicate (Sakai et al, 2002), agarose (Nigam et al, 1988), and polyamide (Green et al, 1996).…”