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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 24, 2017
Filed:
Sep. 05, 2014
Applicant:
President and Fellows of Harvard College, Cambridge, MA (US);
Inventors:
Slaven Garaj, Cambridge, MA (US);
Daniel Branton, Lexington, MA (US);
Assignee:
President and Fellows of Harvard College, Cambridge, MA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01N 27/447 (2006.01); G01N 33/487 (2006.01); G01N 27/453 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01N 27/44791 (2013.01); G01N 27/447 (2013.01); G01N 27/453 (2013.01); G01N 33/48721 (2013.01); Y10S 977/734 (2013.01);
Abstract
The invention features the use of graphene, a one atom thick planar sheet of bonded carbon atoms, in the formation of artificial lipid membranes. The invention also features the use of these membranes to detect the properties of polymers (e.g., the sequence of a nucleic acid) and identify transmembrane protein-interacting compounds.