Solid-state nanopore sensors

L Xue, H Yamazaki, R Ren, M Wanunu… - Nature Reviews …, 2020 - nature.com
Nanopore-based sensors have established themselves as a prominent tool for solution-
based, single-molecule analysis of the key building blocks of life, including nucleic acids …

Engineering biological nanopore approaches toward protein sequencing

X Wei, T Penkauskas, JE Reiner, C Kennard… - ACS …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Biotechnological innovations have vastly improved the capacity to perform large-scale
protein studies, while the methods we have for identifying and quantifying individual proteins …

Plasmonic nanopores for single-molecule detection and manipulation: toward sequencing applications

D Garoli, H Yamazaki, N Maccaferri, M Wanunu - Nano letters, 2019 - ACS Publications
Solid-state nanopore-based sensors are promising platforms for next-generation
sequencing technologies, featuring label-free single-molecule sensitivity, rapid detection …

Plasmonic nanopores for trapping, controlling displacement, and sequencing of DNA

M Belkin, SH Chao, MP Jonsson, C Dekker… - ACS …, 2015 - ACS Publications
With the aim of developing a DNA sequencing methodology, we theoretically examine the
feasibility of using nanoplasmonics to control the translocation of a DNA molecule through a …

Nanopore sensing of protein folding

W Si, A Aksimentiev - ACS nano, 2017 - ACS Publications
Single-molecule studies of protein folding hold keys to unveiling protein folding pathways
and elusive intermediate folding states attractive pharmaceutical targets. Although …

DNA translocations through solid-state plasmonic nanopores

F Nicoli, D Verschueren, M Klein, C Dekker… - Nano …, 2014 - ACS Publications
Nanopores enable label-free detection and analysis of single biomolecules. Here, we
investigate DNA translocations through a novel type of plasmonic nanopore based on a gold …

Electroosmotic trap against the electrophoretic force near a protein nanopore reveals peptide dynamics during capture and translocation

A Asandei, I Schiopu, M Chinappi, CH Seo… - … applied materials & …, 2016 - ACS Publications
We report on the ability to control the dynamics of a single peptide capture and passage
across a voltage-biased, α-hemolysin nanopore (α-HL), under conditions that the …

Nanopore‐based protein sequencing using biopores: Current achievements and open challenges

A Asandei, G Di Muccio, I Schiopu, L Mereuta… - Small …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The synergy of life sciences discoveries, biomolecular and protein engineering advances,
and groundbreaking nanofabrication technologies, has introduced over the past years the …

Nanopore sensing: A physical-chemical approach

JWF Robertson, ML Ghimire, JE Reiner - Biochimica et Biophysica Acta …, 2021 - Elsevier
Protein nanopores have emerged as an important class of sensors for the understanding of
biophysical processes, such as molecular transport across membranes, and for the …

Microwave-specific acceleration of a Friedel–Crafts reaction: evidence for selective heating in homogeneous solution

MR Rosana, J Hunt, A Ferrari… - The Journal of …, 2014 - ACS Publications
Thermally promoted Friedel–Crafts benzylation of arene solvents has been examined under
both conventional convective heating with an oil bath and heating using microwave (MW) …