pH and concentration control and monitoring system.
The microfluidic technology allows one to investigate in parallel a whole combinatorial set of support systems, to screen for capabilities of heightened autonomous functionality. The simplest systems of this type are the gradient reactors being developed by RUB-BioMIP within the PACE project, which allow concentration and temperature gradients to be established across a microfluidic chip enabling a kind of spatial phase diagram of behaviours of candidate artificial cells to be evaluated in a single experiment.
Furthermore we developed two procedures for pH-control in our Chemical Microprocessor - ChµP for on-chip control of replication chemistry as well as e.g. to observe the phase transition between micelles and lamellar structures.