	US 12,073,966 B2
	Droplet assembly method
John Hagan Pryce Bayley, Oxford (GB); Kunwar Tanuj Sapra, Oxford (GB); Tobias Wauer, Munich (DE); Holger Gerlach, Neutraubling (DE); Shiksha Mantri, Indore (IN); and Jamie Hill, Lancashire (GB)
Assigned to Oxford University Innovation Limited, Oxford (GB)
Filed by Oxford University Innovation Limited, Oxford (GB)
Filed on Feb. 2, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/165,252.
Application 17/165,252 is a continuation of application No. 14/437,340, granted, now 10,950,376, previously published as PCT/GB2013/052796, filed on Oct. 25, 2013.
Claims priority of application No. 1219196 (GB), filed on Oct. 25, 2012.
Prior Publication US 2021/0296033 A1, Sep. 23, 2021
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. H01F 1/44 (2006.01); B01L 3/00 (2006.01)

CPC H01F 1/445 (2013.01) [B01L 3/502792 (2013.01); B01L 2200/0673 (2013.01); B01L 2400/043 (2013.01); Y10T 137/0391 (2015.04)]

23 Claims

1. A droplet assembly comprising a plurality of contacting droplets wherein each droplet in said plurality is in contact with at least one other droplet in said plurality, wherein each droplet in said plurality comprises an aqueous medium and an outer layer of amphipathic molecules around a surface of the aqueous medium, and wherein at least one of the plurality of contacting droplets comprises a magnetic material disposed in the aqueous medium; and wherein a bilayer of amphipathic molecules is formed at an interface between contacting droplets in said plurality of contacting droplets.