Patents Represented by Attorney, Agent or Law Firm Patricia W. Turner
  • Method for fabricating supported bilayer-lipid membranes
    Patent number: 6541071
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method and composition for producing a supported membrane. In one embodiment, the present invention relates to a method for producing a supported membrane comprising the steps: (i) providing a substrate coated with a monolayer having reactive functional groups; (ii) contacting the reactive groups with a linker compound to form a derivatized monolayer having covalently bonded linker moieties; and (iii) contacting the derivatized monolayer with a membrane solution to produce a supported membrane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2000
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2003
    Assignee: Corning Incorporated
    Inventors: Dana C. Bookbinder, Joydeep Lahiri