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ArticleAdvanced materials (Deerfield Beach, Fla.)2021

Translocation of DNA through Ultrathin Nanoslits.

Wayne Yang, Boya Radha, Adnan Choudhary, Yi You, Gangaiah Mettela, Andre K Geim, Aleksei Aksimentiev, Ashok Keerthi, Cees Dekker

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Article in Advanced materials (Deerfield Beach, Fla.), 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 14 papers.

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14 citing papers in PubMed.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

9 authors.

Wayne YangKavli Institute of Nanoscience Delft, Delft University of Technology, Delft, 2629 HZ, The Netherlands.
Boya RadhaDepartment of Physics & Astronomy, School of Natural Sciences, University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester, M13 9PL, UK.
Adnan ChoudharyDepartment of Physics, Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, 61801, USA.
Yi YouDepartment of Physics & Astronomy, School of Natural Sciences, University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester, M13 9PL, UK.
Gangaiah MettelaDepartment of Physics & Astronomy, School of Natural Sciences, University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester, M13 9PL, UK.
Andre K GeimDepartment of Physics & Astronomy, School of Natural Sciences, University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester, M13 9PL, UK.
Aleksei AksimentievDepartment of Physics, Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, 61801, USA.
Ashok KeerthiNational Graphene Institute, University of Manchester, Manchester, M13 9PL, UK.
Cees DekkerKavli Institute of Nanoscience Delft, Delft University of Technology, Delft, 2629 HZ, The Netherlands.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6273-071X

Funding

WHOLE CELL SIMULATIONP41GM104601 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA-CHAMPAIGN · PI TAJKHORSHID, EMAD · 2012 to 2021
$19.0M
ERC 669598European Research Council 669598European Union's H2020 Framework Programme/ERC 852674-AngstroCAPFrontiers of Nanoscience and Basyc programsNational Science Foundation DMR-1827346Netherlands Organization for Scientific ResearchNIGMS NIH HHS P41 GM104601NIH HHS P41-GM104601
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

2D nanoslit devices, where two crystals with atomically flat surfaces are separated by only a few nanometers, have attracted considerable attention because their tunable control over the confinement allows for the discovery of unusual transport behavior of gas, water, and ions. Here, the passage of double-stranded DNA molecules is studied through nanoslits fabricated from exfoliated 2D materials, such as graphene or hexagonal boron nitride, and the DNA polymer behavior is examined in this tight confinement. Two types of events are observed in the ionic current: long current blockades that signal DNA translocation and short spikes where DNA enters the slits but withdraws. DNA translocation events exhibit three distinct phases in their current-blockade traces-loading, translation, and exit. Coarse-grained molecular dynamics simulation allows the different polymer configurations of these phases to be identified. DNA molecules, including folds and knots in their polymer structure, are observed to slide through the slits with near-uniform velocity without noticeable frictional interactions of DNA with the confining graphene surfaces. It is anticipated that this new class of 2D-nanoslit devices will provide unique ways to study polymer physics and enable lab-on-a-chip biotechnology.

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DNAGraphiteMolecular Dynamics SimulationNanostructuresBoron CompoundsNanotechnologyBoron Compoundsboron nitrideDNAGraphite2D nanoslitsbiopolymersDNA translocationgraphenenanofluidics

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PMID33522015
PMCPMC8011289

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