Nature Communications (Jan 2016)

Controlling molecular transport in minimal emulsions

  • Philipp Gruner,
  • Birte Riechers,
  • Benoît Semin,
  • Jiseok Lim,
  • Abigail Johnston,
  • Kathleen Short,
  • Jean-Christophe Baret

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms10392
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 7, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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Emulsion droplets have many biotechnological applications, such as parallelized single cell analysis. Here, Gruner et al. introduce the concept of the minimal emulsions in a microfluidic device that allows full control of molecular transport between emulsion droplets.