Nature Communications (Sep 2017)

Nanopore extended field-effect transistor for selective single-molecule biosensing

  • Ren Ren,
  • Yanjun Zhang,
  • Binoy Paulose Nadappuram,
  • Bernice Akpinar,
  • David Klenerman,
  • Aleksandar P. Ivanov,
  • Joshua B. Edel,
  • Yuri Korchev

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-00549-w
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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Efficient detection of single molecules is vital to many biosensing technologies, which require analytical platforms with high selectivity and sensitivity. Ren et al. combine a nanopore sensor and a field-effect transistor, whereby gate voltage mediates DNA and protein transport through the nanopore.