The author wishes to express sincere appreciation to Professor Shigenori KUGA, the supervisor of my study, Division of Structural Biopolymer Science, the University of Tokyo, for his constant guidance, constructive criticism and continuous encourageme...
The author wishes to express sincere appreciation to Professor Shigenori KUGA, the supervisor of my study, Division of Structural Biopolymer Science, the University of Tokyo, for his constant guidance, constructive criticism and continuous encouragement throughout the progress of this study.
The author is very thankful to the former Professor Takeshi OKANO for supervising, advising and encouraging me for the master course part of this study.
The author thanks to Dr. Masahisa WADA for teaching TEM and X-ray techniques and giving much valuable advices, Dr. Tetsuo KONDO, Forestry and Forest Products Research Institute, for solid-state NMR analysis and kind advices, and Professor Akira ISOGAI, Division of Paper Science, the University of Tokyo, for solution NMR analysis and kind advices.
Also the author thanks Dr. Yoshiharu NISHIYAMA, Dr. Dae-Young KIM and students in the laboratory of Structural Biopolymer Science for useful suggestion and kind assistant during my study. The author thanks Ms. Hiroko NAITO, Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, the University of Tokyo, for elemental analysis and Nitto Boseki Co. for gift of polyallylamine sample.
The author would like to thank Professor Hee-Suck JUNG, Jun-Jae LEE, Hak-Lae LEE and Hyun-Joong KIM, Seoul National University in Korea, for kind advice and encouragement.
The author wishes to express my sincere gratitude to my mother in heaven, my father and my wife’s parents for their spiritual support.
Finally the author is grateful to my wife, Young-Soon SUCK, for supporting my study, and never forget my wife’s love.