Emory M Payne

Synthetic biology relies on engineering cells to have desirable properties, such as the production of select chemicals. A bottleneck in engineering methods is often the need to screen and sort...

Droplet microfluidics enables high-throughput experimentation and screening by encapsulating chemical and biochemical samples in aqueous droplets segmented by an immiscible fluid. In such experiments, it is critical that each droplet...

Patterned surfaces can enhance the sensitivity of laser desorption ionization mass spectrometry by segregating and concentrating analytes, but their fabrication can be challenging. Here, a simple method to fabricate substrates...

Enzymes are represented across a vast space of protein sequences and structural forms and have activities that far exceed the best chemical catalysts; however, engineering them to have novel or...

Octanol-water partition coefficients (log ) are widely used in pharmaceutical and environmental chemistry to assess the lipophilicity of compounds. Traditionally log  is determined using a shake-flask method that uses milliliters...

The implementation of continuous flow technology is critical towards enhancing the application of photochemical reactions for industrial process development. However, there are significant time and resource constraints associated with translating...

In two decades of development, impressive strides have been made for automating basic laboratory operations in droplet-based microfluidics, allowing the emergence of a new form of high-throughput screening and experimentation...