Abstract: A purification system for ionic liquid solvents includes an ionic liquid source that includes a first flow controller configured to provide a first flow stream at a first flow rate where the first flow stream including an ionic liquid requiring purification. An extraction liquid source provides a second flow stream including an extraction liquid that is immiscible with the ionic liquid. A mixing component is configured to mix the first flow stream and the second flow stream and output a mixed flow stream that includes a retentate phase and a permeate phase. A separator assembly includes a separation membrane interposed between a first flow channel assembly and a second channel assembly.

Abstract: A module may be provided with at least one opening, the opening being an endpoint of a microfluidic channel that passes through at least part of the module. A set of multiple such modules may be arranged into an arrangement of modules, which may be coupled together using one or more coupling mechanisms included on each module. The arrangement of modules may fit within a regular polyhedral grid, and each module within the arrangement of modules may have a form suitable for arrangement of the modules within the regular polyhedral grid. Fluid may then flow through at least a subset of the arrangement of modules via the microfluidic channel of each module of the subset of the arrangement of modules. Some modules may include sensors, actuators, or inner microfluidic channel surface coatings. The arrangement of modules may form a microfluidic circuit that can perform a microfluidic circuit function.

Abstract: A module may be provided with at least one opening, the opening being an endpoint of a microfluidic channel that passes through at least part of the module. A set of multiple such modules may be arranged into an arrangement of modules, which may be coupled together using one or more coupling mechanisms included on each module. The arrangement of modules may fit within a regular polyhedral grid, and each module within the arrangement of modules may have a form suitable for arrangement of the modules within the regular polyhedral grid. Fluid may then flow through at least a subset of the arrangement of modules via the microfluidic channel of each module of the subset of the arrangement of modules. Some modules may include sensors, actuators, or inner microfluidic channel surface coatings. The arrangement of modules may form a microfluidic circuit that can perform a microfluidic circuit function.

Abstract: A G Protein Coupled Receptor (GPCR) is incorporated in polymeric giant unilamellar protein vesicles (pGUPs). By utilizing an agarose rehydration technique, the GPCR is inserted in the biased, physiological orientation with the C-terminus cytosolic and N-terminus extracellular. The GPCR is fully functional within the polymeric bilayer, exhibiting physiological responses to various ligands. The entire population of GPCRs in pGUPs remains fully functional after lyophilization for 120 hours.

Abstract: Disclosed herein are compositions, methods, and devices related to bilayer and monolayer membranes, their encapsulation in a hydrogel, and their formation. Methods of using the disclosed compositions and devices are also disclosed.

Abstract: A module may be provided with at least one opening, the opening being an endpoint of a microfluidic channel that passes through at least part of the module. A set of multiple such modules may be arranged into an arrangement of modules, which may be coupled together using one or more coupling mechanisms included on each module. The arrangement of modules may fit within a regular polyhedral grid, and each module within the arrangement of modules may have a form suitable for arrangement of the modules within the regular polyhedral grid. Fluid may then flow through at least a subset of the arrangement of modules via the microfluidic channel of each module of the subset of the arrangement of modules. Some modules may include sensors, actuators, or inner microfluidic channel surface coatings. The arrangement of modules may form a microfluidic circuit that can perform a microfluidic circuit function.

Abstract: A method of coating a substrate, such as a microfluidic device having an interior surface, includes heating a gas including a perfluoroacrylate, a crosslinker and an initiator at a first temperature, maintaining the substrate at a second temperature lower than the first temperature in a reaction chamber, exposing the heated gas to the substrate in the reaction chamber, and reacting the perfluoroacrylate with the initiator and crosslinker to form a polymer coating on the surface of the substrate.

Abstract: Disclosed herein are compositions, methods, and devices related to bilayer and monolayer membranes, their encapsulation in a hydrogel, and their formation. Methods of using the disclosed compositions and devices are also disclosed.

Abstract: Disclosed herein are compositions, methods, and devices related to bilayer and monolayer membranes, their encapsulation in a hydrogel, and their formation. Methods of using the disclose compositions and devices are also disclosed.

Abstract: Conjugates that include polymers that are reversibly self-associative in response to a stimulus and methods for using the conjugates.

Abstract: Disclosed herein are compositions, methods, and devices related to bilayer and monolayer membranes, their encapsulation in a hydrogel, and their formation. Methods of using the disclose compositions and devices are also disclosed.

Abstract: Conjugates that include polymers that are reversibly self-associative in response to a stimulus and methods for using the conjugates.