“…Some of the insoluble support materials commonly employed are porous glass and its derivatives (Brockman et al, 1973;Kobayashi et al, 1980;Marlot et al, 1985), diatomaceous earth or kieselguhr (Kroll et al, 1980;Macrae, 1983;Kimura et al, 1983;Wisdom et al, 1984;Ison et al, 1988), Duolite (Kimura et al, 1983), cellulose and its derivatives (Horiuti and Imamura, 1978;, silica and its derivatives (Wisdom et al, 1985;, clay , alumina (Marlot et al, 1985), stainless steel (Lieberman and Ollis, 1975), nylon , polyethylene and its derivatives, polypropylene and its derivatives, (Kimura et al, 1983;Yokozeki et al, 1982), polystyrene (Kang and Rhee, 1989), polyacrylamide (Tahoun, 1986), polyurethane (Marlot et al. 1985), sephadex (Kang and Rhee, 1988), gelatin (Schafer, 1975), alginate (Omar et al, 1988), Dowex (Kobayashi et al, 1980), collagen (Karube et al, 1977), polyethylene glycol attached to magnetite (Takahashi et al, 1987), and fragments of fungal mycelia (Bell et al, 1981) or bacterial cell walls (Kosugi and Suzuki, 1973).…”