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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 23, 2012
Filed:
Sep. 17, 2008
Applicants:
Gregory W. Faris, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Sanhita Dixit, Fremont, CA (US);
Inventors:
Gregory W. Faris, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Sanhita Dixit, Fremont, CA (US);
Assignee:
SRI International, Inc., Menlo Park, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B05D 3/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
The invention provides methods and apparatuses for making an artificial, amphiphilic bilayer using aqueous micro-droplets (1-1,000 um dia) in a water-immiscible solvent, wherein immediately surrounding each droplet is a monolayer of amphiphilic molecules; the general method comprising: juxtapositioning the droplets with a focused laser beam such that the monolayers merge to create a bilayer of the amphiphilic molecules between the droplets.