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Tissue-mimicking printed networks of droplets separated by lipid bilayers that can be functionalized with membrane proteins are able to spontaneously fold and transmit electrical currents along predefined paths.

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Figure 1: Printed droplet networks with electrically conductive paths.
Figure 2: Self-folding networks of printed droplets.

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  1. Center for Biomedical Engineering, School of Engineering, Brown University, 02912, Rhode Island, USA

    Naside Gozde Durmus

  2. Brigham and Women's Hospital and Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, 02139, Massachusetts, USA

    Savas Tasoglu & Utkan Demirci

  3. Harvard–MIT Health Sciences and Technology, Cambridge, 02139, Massachusetts, USA

    Utkan Demirci

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Durmus, N., Tasoglu, S. & Demirci, U. Functional droplet networks. Nature Mater 12, 478–479 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1038/nmat3665

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