Detection of polystyrene sphere translocations using resizable elastomeric nanopores

Physics – Condensed Matter – Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics

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Resizable elastomeric nanopores have been used to measure pulses of ionic current caused by carboxylated polystyrene spheres of diameter 200 nm and 800 nm. The nanopores represent a novel technology which enables nanoscale resizing of a pore by macroscopic actuation of an elastomeric membrane. Three different pores were employed with variable applied strain, transmembrane potential, particle concentration and sphere radius. Theory describing current pulse magnitude has been extended to conical pore geometry. A consistent method for interpretation of data close to the noise threshold has been introduced, and experimental data has been used to compare several methods for efficient, non-destructive calculation of pore dimensions. The most effective models emphasize the absolute pulse size, which is predominantly determined by the opening radius at the narrowest part of the roughly conical pores, rather than the profile along the entire pore length. Experiments were carried out in a regime for which both electro-osmotic and electrophoretic transport are significant.

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