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ArticleNano letters2023

Single-Molecule Sizing through Nanocavity Confinement.

Raphaël P B Jacquat, Georg Krainer, Quentin A E Peter, Ali Nawaz Babar, Oliver Vanderpoorten, Catherine K Xu, Timothy J Welsh, Clemens F Kaminski, Ulrich F Keyser, Jeremy J Baumberg and 1 more

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Article in Nano letters, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

5 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Biosensing With Nanofluidics.Exploration (Beijing, China) · 2026
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

11 authors.

Raphaël P B JacquatYusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge, Lensfield Road, Cambridge, CB2 1EW, United Kingdom.ORCID 0000-0002-8661-9722
Georg KrainerYusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge, Lensfield Road, Cambridge, CB2 1EW, United Kingdom.ORCID 0000-0002-9626-7636
Quentin A E PeterYusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge, Lensfield Road, Cambridge, CB2 1EW, United Kingdom.ORCID 0000-0002-8018-3059
Ali Nawaz BabarYusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge, Lensfield Road, Cambridge, CB2 1EW, United Kingdom.ORCID 0000-0002-5708-9726
Oliver VanderpoortenYusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge, Lensfield Road, Cambridge, CB2 1EW, United Kingdom.ORCID 0000-0001-5611-470X
Catherine K XuYusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge, Lensfield Road, Cambridge, CB2 1EW, United Kingdom.ORCID 0000-0003-4726-636X
Timothy J WelshYusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge, Lensfield Road, Cambridge, CB2 1EW, United Kingdom.ORCID 0000-0001-7817-5722
Clemens F KaminskiDepartment of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, University of Cambridge, Philippa Fawcett Drive, Cambridge CB3 0AS, United Kingdom.ORCID 0000-0002-5194-0962
Ulrich F KeyserCavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics, University of Cambridge, J. J. Thomson Avenue, Cambridge CB3 0HE, United Kingdom.ORCID 0000-0003-3188-5414
Jeremy J BaumbergCavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics, University of Cambridge, J. J. Thomson Avenue, Cambridge CB3 0HE, United Kingdom.ORCID 0000-0002-9606-9488
Tuomas P J KnowlesYusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge, Lensfield Road, Cambridge, CB2 1EW, United Kingdom.ORCID 0000-0002-7879-0140

Funding

Medical Research Council G0902243Medical Research Council MR/K02292X/1
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

An approach relying on nanocavity confinement is developed in this paper for the sizing of nanoscale particles and single biomolecules in solution. The approach, termed nanocavity diffusional sizing (NDS), measures particle residence times within nanofluidic cavities to determine their hydrodynamic radii. Using theoretical modeling and simulations, we show that the residence time of particles within nanocavities above a critical time scale depends on the diffusion coefficient of the particle, which allows the estimation of the particle's size. We demonstrate this approach experimentally through the measurement of particle residence times within nanofluidic cavities using single-molecule confocal microscopy. Our data show that the residence times scale linearly with the sizes of nanoscale colloids, protein aggregates, and single DNA oligonucleotides. NDS thus constitutes a new single molecule optofluidic approach that allows rapid and quantitative sizing of nanoscale particles for potential applications in nanobiotechnology, biophysics, and clinical diagnostics.

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biosensingconfocal detectionmicrofluidicsnanofluidicsprotein sizingsingle molecules

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PMID36826991
PMCPMC9999452

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