Nature Communications (Jan 2016)

Octanol-assisted liposome assembly on chip

  • Siddharth Deshpande,
  • Yaron Caspi,
  • Anna E. C. Meijering,
  • Cees Dekker

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms10447
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 7, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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A broad application of liposomes calls for high throughout techniques to produce them in a controlled and fast manner. Here, Deshpande et al. show a microfluidic approach using alcohol-based lipid-carrying material to generate monodisperse and unilamellar liposomes within a just few minutes.