{"id":197021,"date":"2024-10-04T11:22:50","date_gmt":"2024-10-04T16:22:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/10\/beyond-one-pore-at-a-time-new-method-of-generating-multiple-tunable-nanopores"},"modified":"2024-10-04T11:22:50","modified_gmt":"2024-10-04T16:22:50","slug":"beyond-one-pore-at-a-time-new-method-of-generating-multiple-tunable-nanopores","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/10\/beyond-one-pore-at-a-time-new-method-of-generating-multiple-tunable-nanopores","title":{"rendered":"Beyond \u2018one pore at a time\u2019: New method of generating multiple, tunable nanopores"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/beyond-one-pore-at-a-time-new-method-of-generating-multiple-tunable-nanopores2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>But these exciting applications have been limited in part by the tedious process of tunneling individual sub-nanometer pores one by one.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf we are to ever scale up 2D material membranes to be relevant for applications outside the laboratory, the \u2018one <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/pore\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">pore<\/a> at a time\u2019 method just isn\u2019t feasible,\u201d said recent UChicago Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering (PME) Ph.D. graduate Eli Hoenig. \u201cBut, even within the confines of laboratory experiment, a nanoporous membrane provides significantly larger signals than a single pore, increasing the sensitivity.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hoenig is first author of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41467-024-52109-8\" target=\"_blank\">a paper recently published<\/a> in <i>Nature Communications<\/i> that found a novel path around this longstanding problem. Under PME Asst. Prof. Chong Liu, the team created a new method of pore generation that builds materials with intentional weak spots, then applies a remote electric field to generate multiple nanoscale pores all at once.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>But these exciting applications have been limited in part by the tedious process of tunneling individual sub-nanometer pores one by one. \u201cIf we are to ever scale up 2D material membranes to be relevant for applications outside the laboratory, the \u2018one pore at a time\u2019 method just isn\u2019t feasible,\u201d said recent UChicago Pritzker School of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-197021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-engineering","category-nanotechnology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197021","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=197021"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197021\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}