A fluidic device for the controlled formation and real-time monitoring of soft membranes self-assembled at liquid interfaces.

ABSTRACT: Membrane materials formed at the interface between two liquids have found applications in a large variety of technologies, from sensors to drug-delivery and catalysis. However, studying the formation of these membranes in real-time presents considerable challenges, owing to the difficulty of prescribing the location and instant of formation of the membrane, the difficulty of observing time-dependent membrane shape and thickness, and the poor reproducibility of results obtained using conventional mixing procedures. Here we report a fluidic device that facilitates characterisation of the time-dependent thickness, morphology and mass transport properties of materials self-assembled at fluid-fluid interfaces. In the proposed device the membrane forms from the controlled coalescence of two liqu

SUBMITTER: Mendoza-Meinhardt A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5811436 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature