There is considerable interest in preparing cell‐sized giant unilamellar vesicles from natural
or nonnatural amphiphiles because a giant vesicle membrane resembles the self‐closed …

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Advances in technology have allowed chemical sampling with high spatial resolution and
the manipulation and measurement of individual molecules. Adaptation of these approaches …

The integration of mass transport control by means of membrane functionality into
microfluidic devices has shown substantial growth over the last 10 years. Many different …

Artificial planar lipid bilayers are a powerful tool for the functional study of membrane
proteins, yet they have not been widely used due to their low stability and reproducibility …

The field of micro total analysis systems (μTAS), or “lab on a chip”, has continued to gain
maturity. The importance of μTAS is reflected in both the growing number and the improved …

Compartmentalization of biomolecules within lipid membranes is a fundamental requirement
of living systems and an essential feature of many pharmaceutical therapies. However …

Sensitive and selective biosensors for high‐throughput screening are having an increasing
impact in modern medical care. The establishment of robust protein biosensing platforms …

Although ion channels are attractive targets for drug discovery, the systematic screening of
ion channel-targeted drugs remains challenging. To facilitate automated single ion-channel …

Biological membranes constitute the set of membranes defining boundaries and organelles
in living cells—the structural and functional building blocks of all known living organisms …