Issue 1, 2013
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Analyst

Lipid-coated nanocapillaries for DNA sensing†

Silvia Hernández-Ainsa,a   Christoph Muus,b   Nicholas A. W. Bell,a   Lorenz J. Steinbock,ac   Vivek V. Thackera  and  Ulrich F. Keyser*a  

* Corresponding authors

a Cavendish Laboratory University of Cambridge, Department of Physics, JJ Thomson Avenue, Cambridge, UK
E-mail: ufk20@cam.ac.uk
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b University of Heidelberg, Institute of Pharmacy and Molecular Biotechnology, Im Neuenheimer Feld 364, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany

c Laboratory of Nanoscale Biology, Institute of Bioengineering, School of Engineering, EPFL, 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland

Abstract

We report a simple and efficient way to accomplish the chemical modification of glass nanopores by means of lipid self-assembly. Lipid coating improves the success rate of these glass nanopores as biosensors to detect λ-DNA.

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/C2AN36397F
Article type
Communication
Submitted
29 Aug 2012
Accepted
02 Nov 2012
First published
05 Nov 2012

Analyst, 2013,138, 104-106

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Lipid-coated nanocapillaries for DNA sensing

S. Hernández-Ainsa, C. Muus, N. A. W. Bell, L. J. Steinbock, V. V. Thacker and U. F. Keyser, Analyst, 2013, 138, 104 DOI: 10.1039/C2AN36397F

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