Single molecule fluorescence imaging of nanoconfinement in porous materials

B Dong, N Mansour, TX Huang, W Huang… - Chemical Society …, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
This review covers recent progress in using single molecule fluorescence microscopy
imaging to understand the nanoconfinement in porous materials. The single molecule …

Single-molecule observation of diffusion and catalysis in nanoporous solids

JJE Maris, D Fu, F Meirer, BM Weckhuysen - Adsorption, 2021 - Springer
Nanoporous solids, including microporous, mesoporous and hierarchically structured
porous materials, are of scientific and technological interest because of their high surface-to …

Single-molecule fluorescence microscopy reveals local diffusion coefficients in the pore network of an individual catalyst particle

FC Hendriks, F Meirer, AV Kubarev… - Journal of the …, 2017 - ACS Publications
We used single-molecule fluorescence microscopy to study self-diffusion of a feedstock-like
probe molecule with nanometer accuracy in the macropores of a micrometer-sized, real-life …

Visualizing pore architecture and molecular transport boundaries in catalyst bodies with fluorescent nanoprobes

GT Whiting, N Nikolopoulos, I Nikolopoulos… - Nature Chemistry, 2019 - nature.com
The performances of porous materials are closely related to the accessibility and
interconnectivity of their porous domains. Visualizing pore architecture and its role on …

Microimaging of transient guest profiles to monitor mass transfer in nanoporous materials

J Kärger, T Binder, C Chmelik, F Hibbe… - Nature materials, 2014 - nature.com
The intense interactions of guest molecules with the pore walls of nanoporous materials is
the subject of continued fundamental research. Stimulated by their thermal energy, the guest …

Probing solid-state nanopores with light for the detection of unlabeled analytes

BN Anderson, ON Assad, T Gilboa, AH Squires, D Bar… - ACS …, 2014 - ACS Publications
Nanopore sensing has enabled label-free single-molecule measurements on a wide variety
of analytes, including DNA, RNA, and protein complexes. Much progress has been made …

In situ quantitative single-molecule study of dynamic catalytic processes in nanoconfinement

B Dong, Y Pei, F Zhao, TW Goh, Z Qi, C Xiao, K Chen… - Nature Catalysis, 2018 - nature.com
Understanding the fundamental catalytic principles when the catalytic centre is confined in
nanoscale space that is dimensionally comparable to the reactant molecule is crucial for …

Exploring anomalous fluid behavior at the nanoscale: Direct visualization and quantification via nanofluidic devices

J Zhong, MA Alibakhshi, Q Xie, J Riordon… - Accounts of chemical …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Conspectus Nanofluidics is the study of fluids under nanoscale confinement, where small-
scale effects dictate fluid physics and continuum assumptions are no longer fully valid. At …

Environmental applications of engineered materials with nanoconfinement

S Zhang, T Hedtke, X Zhou, M Elimelech… - ACS ES&T …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Engineered nanoporous materials have been extensively employed in the environmental
field to take advantage of increased surface area and tunable size exclusion. Beyond those …

Electrochemical confinement effects for innovating new nanopore sensing mechanisms

YL Ying, R Gao, YX Hu, YT Long - Small Methods, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Nanopores employ a confined space for electrochemical sensing of high‐throughput
individual biomolecules in solution. Tremendous research efforts over the last two decades …