Nanopores: synergy from DNA sequencing to industrial filtration–small holes with big impact

ZS Siwy, ML Bruening, S Howorka - Chemical Society Reviews, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Nanopores in thin membranes play important roles in science and industry. Single
nanopores have provided a step-change in portable DNA sequencing and understanding …

Bioinspired ionic diodes: From unipolar to bipolar

X Huang, XY Kong, L Wen… - Advanced Functional …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Bioinspired ionic diodes, as the building blocks for bioinspired ion channels, are extensively
explored to mimic the ion transport functions of biological ion channels. Bioinspired …

Charge inversion and calcium gating in mixtures of ions in nanopores

K Lin, CY Lin, JW Polster, Y Chen… - Journal of the American …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Calcium ions play important roles in many physiological processes, yet their concentration is
much lower than the concentrations of potassium and sodium ions. The selectivity of calcium …

Modulation of ionic current rectification in ultrashort conical nanopores

L Ma, Z Li, Z Yuan, C Huang, ZS Siwy… - Analytical Chemistry, 2020 - ACS Publications
Nanopores that exhibit ionic current rectification (ICR) behave like diodes such that they
transport ions more efficiently in one direction than in the other. Conical nanopores have …

Voltage-induced modulation of ionic concentrations and ion current rectification in mesopores with highly charged pore walls

CY Lin, LH Yeh, ZS Siwy - The journal of physical chemistry letters, 2018 - ACS Publications
It is believed that ion current rectification (ICR), a property that assures preferential ionic
transport in one direction, can only be observed in nanopores when the pore size is …

Modulation of charge density and charge polarity of nanopore wall by salt gradient and voltage

CY Lin, E Turker Acar, JW Polster, K Lin, JP Hsu… - ACS …, 2019 - ACS Publications
Surface charge plays a very important role in biological processes including ionic and
molecular transport across a cell membrane. Placement of charges and charge patterns on …

Influences of electroosmotic flow on ionic current through nanopores: A comprehensive understanding

Y Qiu, L Ma - Physics of Fluids, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
Continuum simulations become an important tool to uncover the mysteries in nanofluidic
experiments. However, fluid flow in simulation models is usually unconsidered. Here …

Ion current rectification: from nanoscale to microscale

T Xiong, K Zhang, Y Jiang, P Yu, L Mao - Science China Chemistry, 2019 - Springer
Ion current rectification (ICR) is an electrodynamic phenomenon in electrolyte solution which
is defined as the asymmetric potential-dependent ion flux through a confined environment …

Abnormal ionic-current rectification caused by reversed electroosmotic flow under viscosity gradients across thin nanopores

Y Qiu, ZS Siwy, M Wanunu - Analytical chemistry, 2018 - ACS Publications
Single nanopores have attracted much scientific interest because of their versatile
applications. The majority of experiments have been performed with nanopores being in …

Electrodiffusioosmosis-induced negative differential resistance in pH-regulated mesopores containing purely monovalent solutions

CY Lin, PH Wong, PH Wang, ZS Siwy… - ACS applied materials & …, 2019 - ACS Publications
Negative differential resistance (NDR) refers to a unique electrical property where current
decreases with increasing voltage. Herein, we report experimental evidence showing that …