Biosensors for the rapid, specific, and sensitive detection of analytes play a vital role in
healthcare, drug discovery, food safety, and environmental monitoring. Although a number …

Parylene is a family of chemically vapour deposited polymer with material properties that are
attractive for biomedicine and nanobiotechnology. Chemically inert parylene “peel-off” …

This paper describes a highly sensitive and selective chemical sensor using living cells
(Xenopus laevis oocytes) within a portable fluidic device. We constructed an odorant sensor …

Artificially reproducing cellular environments is a key aim of synthetic biology, which has the
potential to greatly enhance our understanding of cellular mechanisms. Microfluidic and lab …

We present a microarray system that enables simultaneous monitoring of multiple ionic
currents through transmembrane α-hemolysin nanopores arrayed at bilayer lipid …

Lipid bilayers are natural barriers of biological cells and cellular compartments. Membrane
proteins integrated in biological membranes enable vital cell functions such as signal …

An artificial cell membrane that is composed of bilayer lipid membranes (BLMs) with
transmembrane proteins incorporated within them represents a well‐defined system for the …

Microfluidic system, as a kind of miniature integrated operating platform, has been applied to
solid-state nanopore sensors after many years of experimental study. In the process of …

Ion channels are expressed in every tissue and are important for many physiological
processes. Malfunction of ion channels can lead to diseases in many tissues. All these make …

We present a micro-device in which more than 10,000 asymmetric lipid bilayer membranes
are formed at a time on micro-chamber arrays. The arrayed asymmetric lipid bilayers, where …