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Ordered Si nanoaperture arrays for the measurement of ion currents across lipid membranes

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APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS
Volume 95, Issue 2, Pages -

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AMER INST PHYSICS
DOI: 10.1063/1.3171931

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biomembrane transport; dielectric thin films; electrochemistry; elemental semiconductors; lipid bilayers; nanoporous materials; nanotechnology; silicon; silicon compounds

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  1. Bayerische Forschungsstiftung (FORNANO)

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Confined arrays of highly ordered microchannels in silicon with apertures as small as 100 nm and flat ridges between them are manufactured using electrochemically defined Si macropores whose orifices are reduced by deposition of dielectric SiO(x) thin films. The formation of continuous fluid lipid membranes over these channel arrays is achieved by vesicle fusion. This structure should allow a large choice of lipid membranes to be investigated by spatially resolved ion current measurements.

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