Over the past decade, we have seen rapid advances in applying nanotechnology in
biomedical areas including bioimaging, biodetection, and drug delivery. As an emerging …

Bioinspired smart asymmetric nanochannel membranes (BSANM) have been explored
extensively to achieve the delicate ionic transport functions comparable to those of living …

Scope of the Review. Herein, we provide an up-to-date overview of the field of nanopore
sensing with emphases placed on the advances made in the most recent two years (2014 …

Biological ion channels are molecular gatekeepers that control transport across cell
membranes. Recreating the functional principle of such systems and extending it beyond …

Membrane nanopores—hollow nanoscale barrels that puncture biological or synthetic
membranes—have become powerful tools in chemical-and biosensing, and have achieved …

DNA encodes the genetic information; recently, it has also become a key player in material
science. Given the specific Watson–Crick base‐pairing interactions between only four types …

Transmembrane nanostructures like ion channels and transporters perform key biological
functions by controlling flow of molecules across lipid bilayers. Much work has gone into …

DNA nanotechnology allows for the creation of three-dimensional structures at nanometer
scale. Here, we use DNA to build the largest synthetic pore in a lipid membrane to date …

Signal transduction across biological membranes enables cells to detect and respond to
diverse chemical or physical signals, and replicating these complex biological processes …

Nanopores are key in portable sequencing and research given their ability to transport
elongated DNA or small bioactive molecules through narrow transmembrane channels …