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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Why can artificial membranes be fabricated so rapidly in microfluidics?
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MPI for Dynamics and Self-Organization, Göttingen, Germany
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Experimental Physics, Saarland University, Saarbrücken, Germany
E-mail: r.seemann@physik.uni-saarland.de
E-mail: r.seemann@physik.uni-saarland.de
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Laboratoire de Physique, Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon, CNRS UMR 5672, Lyon, France
Chem. Commun., 2013,49, 1443-1445
DOI: 10.1039/C2CC38867G
Received 31 Oct 2012, Accepted 21 Dec 2012
First published online 21 Dec 2012
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