ArticleScientific reports2017
Light-Patterned Current Generation in a Droplet Bilayer Array.
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- Parallel transmission in a synthetic nerve.Nature chemistry · 2022Article
- Enhancing membrane-based soft materials with magnetic reconfiguration events.Scientific reports · 2022Article
- Controlled packing and single-droplet resolution of 3D-printed functional synthetic tissues.Nature communications · 2020Article
- Synthetic tissues.Emerging topics in life sciences · 2019Article
- Probing membrane protein properties using droplet interface bilayers.Experimental biology and medicine (Maywood, N.J.) · 2019Article
- Encapsulating Networks of Droplet Interface Bilayers in a Thermoreversible Organogel.Scientific reports · 2018Article
- Light-patterning of synthetic tissues with single droplet resolution.Scientific reports · 2017Article
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Abstract
We have created a 4 × 4 droplet bilayer array comprising light-activatable aqueous droplet bio-pixels. Aqueous droplets containing bacteriorhodopsin (bR), a light-driven proton pump, were arranged on a common hydrogel surface in lipid-containing oil. A separate lipid bilayer formed at the interface between each droplet and the hydrogel; each bilayer then incorporated bR. Electrodes in each droplet simultaneously measured the light-driven proton-pumping activities of each bio-pixel. The 4 × 4 array derived by this bottom-up synthetic biology approach can detect grey-scale images and patterns of light moving across the device, which are transduced as electrical current generated in each bio-pixel. We propose that synthetic biological light-activatable arrays, produced with soft materials, might be interfaced with living tissues to stimulate neuronal pathways.
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