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Optically assembled droplet interface bilayer (OptiDIB) networks from cell-sized microdroplets

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posted on 2016-12-15, 13:59 authored by Mark S. Friddin, Guido Bolognesi, Yuval Elani, Nicholas J. Brooks, Robert V. Law, John M. Seddon, Mark A.A. Neil, Oscar Ces
We report a new platform technology to systematically assemble droplet interface bilayer (DIB) networks in user-defined 3D architectures from cell-sized droplets using optical tweezers. Our OptiDIB platform is the first demonstration of optical trapping to precisely construct 3D DIB networks, paving the way for the development of a new generation of modular bio-systems.

Funding

This work was supported by the EPSRC via grants EP/J017566/1, EP/K038648/1, EP/K503733/1 and by an EPSRC Doctoral Prize Fellowship awarded to YE.

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  • Aeronautical, Automotive, Chemical and Materials Engineering

Department

  • Chemical Engineering

Published in

Soft Matter

Volume

12

Issue

37

Pages

7731 - 7734

Citation

FRIDDIN, M.S. ... et al, 2016. Optically assembled droplet interface bilayer (OptiDIB) networks from cell-sized microdroplets. Soft Matter, 12 (37), pp. 7731 - 7734.

Publisher

Royal Society of Chemistry

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  • VoR (Version of Record)

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This work is made available according to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC BY 3.0) licence. Full details of this licence are available at: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

Publication date

2016

Notes

This is an open access article published by the Royal Society of Chemistry and distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Licence (CC BY 3.0), https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

ISSN

1744-683X

eISSN

1744-6848

Language

  • en

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