Hot Article: Lipid bilayers on topochemically structured planar colloidal crystals: a versatile platform for optical recording of membrane-mediated ion transport

A team of US Scientists from the University of California, Davis, have demonstrated how membrane architecture and a functionalized colloidal crystal can be used for optical measurement of transmembrane ionic transport.

Graphical abstract: Lipid bilayers on topochemically structured planar colloidal crystals: a versatile platform for optical recording of membrane-mediated ion transport

The team led by Atul Parikh say their experimental design also opens practical possibilities for parallel measurements that may be useful for the characterization of stochastic transport processes and high-throughput measurements.

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Adrian M. Brozell, Sean Inaba and Atul N. Parikh, Soft Matter, 2010, DOI:10.1039/C0SM00535E

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