Lipid Bilayers on Chip
A special issue of Micromachines (ISSN 2072-666X). This special issue belongs to the section "B:Biology and Biomedicine".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 November 2020) | Viewed by 14572
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Interests: solid–liquid interface; lipid bilayers; membrane transporters; biohybrid devices
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Dear Colleagues,
Lipid bilayers are one of the fundamental models of biological membranes. Over the past 15 years, microfluidics and MEMS technologies have been exploited for precise manipulation of the lipid materials and made great contributions to produce planar and vesicular forms of lipid membranes in a controlled and reproducible manner; for example, planar lipid bilayers were suspended at a micrometer-sized aperture fabricated by a photolithography process, supported lipid bilayers were formed on a surface-modified microfluidic channels, and lipid vesicles were produced by traversing droplets from oil to an aqueous phase. This advancement in planar membranes and vesicles has further extended their research fields in exploration of the fundamental properties of cell membranes, creation of bottom–up synthetic cells, development of a drug screening system for cell membranes, and integration of membrane receptors for chemical sensors. Accordingly, this Special Issue seeks to showcase research papers, short communications, and review articles that focus on: (1) novel methodological developments in the formation of planar lipid bilayers or vesicles; and (2) novel applications of lipid bilayer based microdevices, including but not limited to discovery of membrane properties, bottom–up assembly of synthetic cells/tissues, and development of cell membrane based sensors.
Dr. Toshihisa Osaki
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- Lipid bilayers/lipid vesicles on chip
- Characterization of lipid bilayers and cell membranes
- Artificial cells/tissues with lipid membranes
- Cell membrane-based sensors
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- Lipid Bilayers on Chip, Volume II in Micromachines (3 articles)