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Geometrical Effect in 2D Nanopores

Liu, Ke  
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Lihter, Martina  
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Sarathy, Aditya
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2017
Nano Letters

A long-standing problem in the application of solid-state nanopores is the lack of the precise control over the geometry of artificially formed pores compared to the well-defined geometry in their biological counterpart, that is, protein nanopores. To date, experimentally investigated solid-state nanopores have been shown to adopt an approximately circular shape. In this Letter, we investigate the geometrical effect of the nanopore shape on ionic blockage induced by DNA translocation using triangular h-BN nanopores and approximately circular molybdenum disulfide (MoS2) nanopores. We Observe a striking geometry dependent ion scattering effect, which is further corroborated by a modified ionic blockage model. The well-acknowledged ionic blockage Model is derived from uniform ion permeability through the 2D nanopore plane and hemisphere like access region in the nanopore vicinity. On the basis of our experimental results, we propose a modified ionic blockage model, which is highly related to the ionic profile caused by geometrical variations. Our findings shed light on the rational design of 2D nanopores and should be applicable to arbitrary nanopore shapes.

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DOI
10.1021/acs.nanolett.7b01091
Web of Science ID

WOS:000405643300033

Author(s)
Liu, Ke  
Lihter, Martina  
Sarathy, Aditya
Caneva, Sabina
Qiu, Hu
Deiana, Davide  
Tileli, Vasiliki  
Alexander, Duncan T. L.  
Hofmann, Stephan
Dumcenco, Dumitru
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Date Issued

2017

Publisher

American Chemical Society (ACS)

Published in
Nano Letters
Volume

7

Issue

17

Start page

4223

End page

4230

Subjects

Solid-state nanopores

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2D materials

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molybdenum disulfide (MoS2)

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hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN)

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high-resolution transmission electron microscopy (HRTEM)

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ion transport

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July 7, 2017
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