Issue 14, 2013
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Chemical Communications

Why can artificial membranes be fabricated so rapidly in microfluidics?†

Shashi Thutupalli,‡a   Jean-Baptiste Fleury,b   Audrey Steinberger,ac   Stephan Herminghausa  and  Ralf Seemann*ab  

* Corresponding authors

a MPI for Dynamics and Self-Organization, Göttingen, Germany

b Experimental Physics, Saarland University, Saarbrücken, Germany
E-mail: r.seemann@physik.uni-saarland.de

c Laboratoire de Physique, Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon, CNRS UMR 5672, Lyon, France

Abstract

Droplet interface bilayers are a convenient tool to produce and explore lipid membrane properties. We discuss why their formation time in microfluidics can be three to six orders of magnitude faster compared to conventional bulk settings.

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/C2CC38867G
Article type
Communication
Submitted
31 Oct 2012
Accepted
21 Dec 2012
First published
21 Dec 2012

Chem. Commun., 2013,49, 1443-1445

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Why can artificial membranes be fabricated so rapidly in microfluidics?

S. Thutupalli, J. Fleury, A. Steinberger, S. Herminghaus and R. Seemann, Chem. Commun., 2013, 49, 1443 DOI: 10.1039/C2CC38867G

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