A double droplet trap system for studying mass transport across a droplet-droplet interface.

Bai, Yunpeng; He, Ximin; Liu, Dingsheng; Patil, Santoshkumar N; Bratton, Dan; Huebner, Ansgar; Hollfelder, Florian; Abell, Chris et al. · Lab Chip · 2010

basic_science · Level V

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Abstract

Here we present the design, fabrication and operation of a microfluidic device to trap droplets in a large array of droplet pairs in a controlled manner with the aim of studying the transport of small molecules across the resultant surfactant bilayers formed between the droplet pairs.

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