Studying the effects of asymmetry on the bending rigidity of lipid membranes formed by microfluidics.

In this article we detail a robust high-throughput microfluidic platform capable of fabricating either symmetric or asymmetric giant unilamellar vesicles (GUVs) and characterise the mechanical properties of their membranes.

• Publication year

  2016

• Venue

  Chemical Communications

• Publication date

  2016-04-05

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Materials Science, Chemistry

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1039/c5cc10307jPMID 27001410
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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