Patent ID: 8961898
Filing Date: 2015-02-24
Classification: B01L,C12M,G01N,Y10S,Y10T

Abstract:
1. A process for producing planar bilayer membranes, comprising: forming a state where two liquid phases or liquid and gaseous phases each containing amphipathic molecules are alternately arranged as an array in a microchannel, discharging one of the two liquid phases or the gaseous phase of the liquid and gaseous phases from the microchannel through branch minichannels formed in the wall on one side or in the walls on both sides of the microchannel, so as to contact the remaining liquid phases adjacent to each other, and forming a side-by-side arrangement of planar bilayer membranes comprising the amphipathic molecules, wherein the planar bilayer membranes are independent from each other.