Droplet assembly method
AssigneeOxford University Innovation Limited
InventorsJohn Hagan Pryce Bayley, Kunwar Tanuj Sapra, Tobias Wauer, Holger Gerlach, Shiksha Mantri, Jamie Hill
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Abstract
The invention relates to a process for moving a droplet from a first location to a second location, which droplet comprises a magnetic material disposed in an aqueous medium. The invention also relates to a droplet assembly comprising a droplet, which droplet comprises a magnetic material disposed in an aqueous medium. Various uses of the droplet assembly are also described.
Claims23
A droplet assembly comprising a plurality of contacting droplets wherein each droplet in said plurality is in contact with at least one other droplet in said plurality, wherein each droplet in said plurality comprises an aqueous medium and an outer layer of amphipathic molecules around a surface of the aqueous medium, and wherein at least one of the plurality of contacting droplets comprises a magnetic material disposed in the aqueous medium;
- and wherein a bilayer of amphipathic molecules is formed at an interface between contacting droplets in said plurality of contacting droplets.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.