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Sensing voltage change across a lipid bilayer

Chen Y., Makinen A.J., O’Shaughnessy T.J., Efros A.L., Huston A., Susumu K., Stewart M.H., Delehanty J.B., Naval Research Laboratory, US

Developing nanoscale probes capable of real-time sensing and imaging of neuronal action potentials would be useful in understanding neuronal communication. However, current available tools for imaging action potentials lack either the spatial or temporal sensitivity [...]

Lipid Dip-Pen Nanolithography for Functional Biomimetic Membrane Systems

Lenhert S., Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe GmbH, DE

Dip Pen Nanolithography (DPN) is uniquely well suited for the integration of multiple materials (or inks) with both high resolution and high throughput. Phospholipid-based inks are particularly well suited for this purpose for several reasons. [...]

Novel surface architectures for biomimetic lipid membranes

Reimhult E., Merz C., Ye Q., Textor M., Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH Zürich ), CH

Many important biological processes occur at, via or across one of the various lipid membranes present in the cell. These include transport governed by transmembrane proteins constituting more than 50% of all drug targets of [...]