FIG. 2.

(a) Schematic of device. First, water in oil droplets are generated at a flow-focussing junction. Droplets travel along meanders, providing sufficient time for lipid-monolayers to self-assemble at the interface. Droplets then enter the sorting chamber, where they are directed to one of four rails by a directing flow. (b) Where the rails come to an end, droplets are trapped and accumulate next to each other, resulting in a droplet interface bilayer network. Networks of up to 20 bilayers could be formed in this way.