Issue 10, 2010
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Lab on a Chip

A double droplet trap system for studying mass transport across a droplet-droplet interface†

Yunpeng Bai,a   Ximin He,a   Dingsheng Liu,a   Santoshkumar N. Patil,b   Dan Bratton,a   Ansgar Huebner,c   Florian Hollfelder,c   Chris Abellb  and  Wilhelm T. S. Huck*ad  

* Corresponding authors

a Melville Laboratory for Polymer Synthesis, Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge, Lensfield Road, Cambridge, UK
E-mail: wtsh2@cam.ac.uk
Tel: +44 1223 334370

b Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge, Lensfield Road, Cambridge, UK

c Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge, 80 Tennis Court Road, Cambridge, UK

d Radboud University Nijmegen, Institute for Molecules and Materials, Heyendaalseweg 135, Nijmegen, The Netherlands

Abstract

Here we present the design, fabrication and operation of a microfluidic device to trap droplets in a large array of droplet pairs in a controlled manner with the aim of studying the transport of small molecules across the resultant surfactant bilayers formed between the droplet pairs.

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/B925133B
Article type
Paper
Submitted
30 Nov 2009
Accepted
22 Jan 2010
First published
16 Feb 2010

Lab Chip, 2010,10, 1281-1285

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A double droplet trap system for studying mass transport across a droplet-droplet interface

Y. Bai, X. He, D. Liu, S. N. Patil, D. Bratton, A. Huebner, F. Hollfelder, C. Abell and W. T. S. Huck, Lab Chip, 2010, 10, 1281 DOI: 10.1039/B925133B

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