Formation of artificial lipid bilayers using droplet dielectrophoresis

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Aghdaei, Sara and Sandison, M.E. and Zagnoni, Michele and Green, Nicolas G. and Morgan, Hywel (2008) Formation of artificial lipid bilayers using droplet dielectrophoresis. Lab on a Chip, 8 (10). 1617–1620. ISSN 1473-0197 (https://doi.org/10.1039/b807374k)

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Abstract

We describe the formation of artificial bilayer lipid membranes (BLMs) by the controlled, electrical manipulation of aqueous droplets immersed in a lipid–alkane solution. Droplet movement was generated using dielectrophoresis on planar microelectrodes covered in a thin insulator. Droplets, surrounded by lipid monolayers, were brought into contact and spontaneously formed a BLM. The method produced BLMs suitable for single-channel recording of membrane protein activity and the technique can be extended to create programmable BLM arrays and networks.

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Aghdaei, Sara, Sandison, M.E. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1021-1461, Zagnoni, Michele ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3198-9491, Green, Nicolas G. and Morgan, Hywel;
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