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Spatially multiplexed single-molecule translocations through a nanopore at controlled speeds

Aleksandra Radenovic, Georg Fantner, Samuel Mendes Leitão, Barney Frederick Drake, Sanjin Marion, Vytautas Navikas, Simon Finn Mayer, Helena Miljkovic

In current nanopore-based label-free single-molecule sensing technologies, stochastic processes influence the selection of translocating molecule, translocation rate and translocation velocity. As a result, single-molecule translocations are challenging to ...

2023

High-Throughput Nanopore Fabrication and Classification Using Xe-Ion Irradiation and Automated Pore-Edge Analysis

Andras Kis, Aleksandra Radenovic, Martina Lihter, Michal Daniel Macha, Sanjin Marion, Mukeshchand Thakur, Mukesh Kumar Tripathi

Large-area nanopore drilling is a major bottleneck in state-of-the-art nanoporous 2D membrane fabrication protocols. In addition, high-quality structural and statistical descriptions of as-fabricated porous membranes are key to predicting the corresponding ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2022

Stress induced delamination of suspended MoS2 in aqueous environments

Aleksandra Radenovic, Michal Daniel Macha, Sanjin Marion, Mukeshchand Thakur

Applying hydrostatic pressure with suspended 2D material thin membranes allows probing the effects of lateral strain on the ion and fluid transport through nanopores. We demonstrate how both permanent and temporary delamination of 2D materials can be induc ...

ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY2022

From Water Solutions to Ionic Liquids with Solid State Nanopores as a Perspective to Study Transport and Translocation Phenomena

Aleksandra Radenovic, Sanjin Marion

Solid state nanopores are single-molecular devices governed by nanoscale physics with a broad potential for technological applications. However, the control of translocation speed in these systems is still limited. Ionic liquids are molten salts which are ...

WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH2021

Wetting of nanopores probed with pressure

Aleksandra Radenovic, Sebastian James Davis, Michal Daniel Macha, Sanjin Marion, Andrey Chernev

Nanopores are both a tool to study single-molecule biophysics and nanoscale ion transport, but also a promising material for desalination or osmotic power generation. Understanding the physics underlying ion transport through nano-sized pores allows better ...

ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY2021

Adaptive optics enables multimode 3D super-resolution microscopy via remote focusing

Aleksandra Radenovic, Adrien Charles-François Raymond Descloux, Kristin Stefanie Grussmayer, Sanjin Marion, Vytautas Navikas

A variety of modern super-resolution micro-scopy methods provide researchers with previouslyinconceivable biological sample imaging opportunities ata molecular resolution. All of these techniques excel atimaging samples that are close to the coverslip, how ...

2021

High-Throughput Nanocapillary Filling Enabled by Microwave Radiation for Scanning Ion Conductance Microscopy Imaging

Aleksandra Radenovic, Georg Fantner, Sebastian James Davis, Samuel Mendes Leitão, Sanjin Marion, Vytautas Navikas

Solid-state nanopores provide a highly sensitive tool for single-molecule sensing and probing nanofluidic effects in solutions. Glass nanopipettes are a cheap and robust type of solid-state nanopore produced from pulling glass capillaries with opening orif ...

2020

Pressure-Induced Enlargement and Ionic Current Rectification in Symmetric Nanopores

Aleksandra Radenovic, Sebastian James Davis, Michal Daniel Macha, Sanjin Marion, Andrey Chernev

Nanopores in solid state membranes are a tool able to probe nanofluidic phenomena or can act as a single molecular sensor. They also have diverse applications in filtration, desalination, or osmotic power generation. Many of these applications involve chem ...

2020

Nanocapillary confinement of imidazolium based ionic liquids

Aleksandra Radenovic, Sebastian James Davis, Sanjin Marion, Zeng-Qiang Wu

Room temperature ionic liquids are salts which are molten at or around room temperature without any added solvent or solution. In bulk they exhibit glass like dependence of conductivity with temperature as well as coupling of structural and transport prope ...

2020

Towards artificial mechanosensing

Aleksandra Radenovic, Sanjin Marion

Carbon nanotubes with single-digit diameter embedded in a solid artificial membrane show pressure-sensitive ionic conductance that is similar to the mechanically activated currents of biological ion channels. ...

NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP2020

Prospects of Observing Ionic Coulomb Blockade in Artificial Ion Confinements

Aleksandra Radenovic, Sanjin Marion, Andrey Chernev

Nanofluidics encompasses a wide range of advanced approaches to study charge and mass transport at the nanoscale. Modern technologies allow us to develop and improve artificial nanofluidic platforms that confine ions in a way similar to single-ion channels ...

MDPI2020

Polymer Coatings to Minimize Protein Adsorption in Solid-State Nanopores

Michael Mayer, Aleksandra Radenovic, Sebastian James Davis, Sanjin Marion

Nanopore-based resistive-pulse recordings represent a promising approach for single-molecule biophysics with applications ranging from rapid DNA and RNA sequencing to "fingerprinting" proteins. Based on advances in fabrication methods, solid-state nanopore ...

WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH2020

2D materials as an emerging platform for nanopore-based power generation

Aleksandra Radenovic, Michal Daniel Macha, Sanjin Marion

Osmotic power generation, the extraction of power from mixing salt solutions of different concentrations, can provide an efficient power source for both nanoscale and industrial-level applications. Power is generated using ion-selective channels or pores o ...

2019

Transverse Detection of DNA Using a MoS2 Nanopore

Aleksandra Radenovic, Michael Graf, Martina Lihter, Sanjin Marion

Classical nanopore sensing relies on the measurement of the ion current passing through a nanopore. Whenever a molecule electrophoretically translocates through the narrow constriction, it modulates the ion current. Although this approach allows one to mea ...

2019

Role of Condensing Particles in Polymer Confinement: A Model for Virus-Packed "Minichromosomes"

Sanjin Marion

Confined mixtures of a polymer and nonspecifically binding particles (condensers) are studied as models for viruses containing double-stranded DNA (polymer) and condensing proteins (particles). We explore a model in which all interactions between the packe ...

Cell Press2017

Single Molecule Localization and Discrimination of DNA–Protein Complexes by Controlled Translocation Through Nanocapillaries

Aleksandra Radenovic, Sebastian Maerkl, Sebastian James Davis, Roman Bulushev, Ekaterina Emilova Petrova, Sanjin Marion

Through the use of optical tweezers we performed controlled translocations of DNA-protein complexes through nanocapillaries. We used RNA polymerase (RNAP) with two binding sites on a 7.2 kbp DNA fragment and a dCas9 protein tailored to have five binding si ...

American Chemical Society (ACS)2016

Relevance of the Drag Force during Controlled Translocation of a DNA–Protein Complex through a Glass Nanocapillary

Aleksandra Radenovic, Roman Bulushev, Sanjin Marion

Combination of glass nanocapillaries with optical tweezers allowed us to detect DNA-protein complexes in physiological conditions. In this system, a protein bound to DNA is characterized by a simultaneous change of the force and ionic current signals from ...

American Chemical Society (ACS)2015