Fabrication and applications of solid-state nanopores

Q Chen, Z Liu - Sensors, 2019 - mdpi.com
Nanopores fabricated from synthetic materials (solid-state nanopores), platforms for
characterizing biological molecules, have been widely studied among researchers …

Automated Fabrication of 2‐nm Solid‐State Nanopores for Nucleic Acid Analysis

K Briggs, H Kwok, V Tabard‐Cossa - Small, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
We demonstrate the automated and reproducible fabrication of sub‐2‐nm nanopores in 10‐
nm thick silicon nitride membranes, through controlled dielectric breakdown in solution. Our …

Kinetics of nanopore fabrication during controlled breakdown of dielectric membranes in solution

K Briggs, M Charron, H Kwok, T Le, S Chahal… - …, 2015 - iopscience.iop.org
Nanopore fabrication by controlled breakdown (CBD) overcomes many of the challenges of
traditional nanofabrication techniques, by reliably forming solid-state nanopores sub-2 nm in …

Precise control of the size and noise of solid-state nanopores using high electric fields

E Beamish, H Kwok, V Tabard-Cossa… - Nanotechnology, 2012 - iopscience.iop.org
We present a methodology for preparing silicon nitride nanopores that provides in situ
control of size with sub-nanometer precision while simultaneously reducing electrical noise …

Gold nanoparticle translocation dynamics and electrical detection of single particle diffusion using solid-state nanopores

G Goyal, KJ Freedman, MJ Kim - Analytical chemistry, 2013 - ACS Publications
This paper describes the use of gold nanoparticles to study particle translocation dynamics
through silicon nitride solid-state nanopores. Gold nanoparticles were dispersed in 20 mM …

Scalable fabrication of sub-10 nm polymer nanopores for DNA analysis

J Choi, CC Lee, S Park - Microsystems & nanoengineering, 2019 - nature.com
We present the first fabrication of sub-10 nm nanopores in freestanding polymer membranes
via a simple, cost-effective, high-throughput but deterministic fabrication method. Nanopores …

Adeno-associated virus characterization for cargo discrimination through nanopore responsiveness

BI Karawdeniya, YMNDY Bandara, AI Khan, WT Chen… - Nanoscale, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Solid-state nanopore (SSN)-based analytical methods have found abundant use in
genomics and proteomics with fledgling contributions to virology–a clinically critical field with …

Controllable shrinking and shaping of glass nanocapillaries under electron irradiation

LJ Steinbock, JF Steinbock, A Radenovic - Nano letters, 2013 - ACS Publications
The ability to reshape nanopores and observe their shrinkage under an electron microscope
is a powerful and novel technique. It increases the sensitivity of the resistive pulse sensing …

Under-deposit corrosion of Ni-based alloy 825 and Fe-Ni based alloy 800 in supercritical water oxidation environment

J Yang, S Wang, Y Li, D Xu - Corrosion Science, 2020 - Elsevier
The under-deposit corrosion behavior of Alloy 800 and Alloy 825 in oxidizing supercritical
water (SCW) containing KCl or NaCl were investigated. A novel-designed reactor was used …

Investigation of ion channeling and scattering for single‐ion implantation with high spatial resolution

N Raatz, C Scheuner, S Pezzagna… - physica status solidi …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
The production of quantum systems based on single atoms in a solid requires new
techniques in ion implantation. A pierced atomic force microscope (AFM) tip is developed as …