Droplet interface bilayers.

10.1039/B808893D

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Droplet Interface Bilayer.

Our efforts on droplet interface bilayers in Oxford began in the summer of 2005 following a suggestion made by David Needham at “Lipids, liposomes and biomembranes”, a conference in Vancouver. He proposed that a bilayer would form between two droplets brought together in an oil (squalene) containing a lipid (glycerol monooleate) and that this might be a means to miniaturize planar bilayer recording.