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SCIENTIFIC REPORTS
Volume 6, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/srep31670
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- ImPACT Program of Council for Science, Technology, and Innovation (Cabinet Office, Government of Japan)
- Nanotechnology Platform Project (Nanotechnology Open Facilities in Osaka University) of Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, Japan [F-12-OS-0016]
- Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) KAKENHI [26220603, 15K13323]
- Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research [15K13323] Funding Source: KAKEN
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Understanding and controlling electrophoretic motions of nanoscopic objects in fluidic channels are a central challenge in developing nanopore technology for molecular analyses. Although progress has been made in slowing the translocation velocity to meet the requirement for electrical detections of analytes via picoampere current measurements, there exists no method useful for regulating particle flows in the transverse directions. Here, we report the use of dielectrophoresis to manipulate the single-particle passage through a solid-state pore. We created a trap field by applying AC voltage between electrodes embedded in a low-aspect-ratio micropore. We demonstrated a traffic control of particles to go through center or near side surface via the voltage frequency. We also found enhanced capture efficiency along with faster escaping speed of particles by virtue of the AC-mediated electroosmosis. This method is compatible with nanopore sensing and would be widely applied for reducing off-axis effects to achieve single-molecule identification.
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