Detecting single porphyrin molecules in a conically shaped synthetic nanopore. Academic Article

abstract

• We report here the first example of abiotic resistive-pulse sensing of a molecular (as opposed to a particle or macromolecular) analyte. This was accomplished by using a conically shaped nanopore prepared by the track-etch method as the sensing element. It is possible to sense the molecular analyte because the small diameter opening of the conical nanopore (approximately 4.5 nm) is comparable to the diameter of the analyte molecule (approximately 2 nm).

authors

• Baker, Lane

published proceedings

• Nano Lett

altmetric score

• 9

author list (cited authors)

• Heins, E. A., Siwy, Z. S., Baker, L. A., & Martin, C. R.

citation count

• 237

complete list of authors

• Heins, Elizabeth A||Siwy, Zuzanna S||Baker, Lane A||Martin, Charles R

publication date

• September 2005

publisher

• American Chemical Society (ACS)  Publisher

published in

• Nano Letters: a journal dedicated to nanoscience and nanotechnology  Journal

keywords

• Bioengineering
• Nanotechnology

PubMed Central ID

• 16159231

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1021/nl050925i

start page

• 1824

end page

• 1829

volume

• 5

issue

• 9

URL

• http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/nl050925i