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ArticleBiomicrofluidics2018

Evaporation-induced monolayer compression improves droplet interface bilayer formation using unsaturated lipids.

Guru A Venkatesan, Graham J Taylor, Colin M Basham, Nathan G Brady, C Patrick Collier, Stephen A Sarles

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Article in Biomicrofluidics, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.

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6 authors.

Guru A VenkatesanDepartment of Mechanical, Aerospace, and Biomedical Engineering, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee 37996, USA.
Graham J TaylorORCID 0000-0001-8833-7705
Colin M BashamDepartment of Mechanical, Aerospace, and Biomedical Engineering, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee 37996, USA.
Nathan G BradyDepartment of Biochemistry, Cellular and Molecular Biology, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee 37996, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-3443-8006
C Patrick CollierORCID 0000-0002-8198-793X
Stephen A SarlesDepartment of Mechanical, Aerospace, and Biomedical Engineering, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee 37996, USA.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In this article, we report on a new experimental methodology to enable reliable formation of droplet interface bilayer (DIB) model membranes with two types of unsaturated lipids that have proven difficult for creating stable DIBs. Through the implementation of a simple evaporation technique to condition the spontaneously assembled lipid monolayer around each droplet, we increased the success rates of DIB formation for two distinct unsaturated lipids, namely 1,2-dioleoyl-

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PMCPMC5832467

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