Nanopore-based sensors have established themselves as a prominent tool for solution-
based, single-molecule analysis of the key building blocks of life, including nucleic acids …

Optical tweezers and associated manipulation tools in the far field have had a major impact
on scientific and engineering research by offering precise manipulation of small objects …

Here we present a roadmap on Photonic metasurfaces. This document consists of a number
of perspective articles on different applications, challenge areas or technologies underlying …

Ion transport and hydrodynamic flow through nanometer-sized channels (nanopores) have
been increasingly studied owing to not only the fundamental interest in the abundance of …

Single entity sensing is recently an area of tremendous interest in analytical chemistry, such
that it is possible to analyze single cells, single particles, and even single molecules. Among …

Nanopores in solid-state membranes are promising for a wide range of applications
including DNA sequencing, ultra-dilute analyte detection, protein analysis, and polymer data …

Plasmonic and nanopore sensors have separately received much attention for achieving
single‐molecule precision. A plasmonic “hotspot” confines and enhances optical excitation …

Plasmonics is the discipline that investigates the use of collective oscillations of conductive
electrons in metallic nanostructures, called surface plasmons (SPs), to realize a large set of …

The ability of metallic nanostructures to confine light at the sub-wavelength scale enables
new perspectives and opportunities in the field of nanotechnology. Making use of this …

Obtaining sequential and conformational information on proteins is vital to understand their
functions. Although the nanopore-based electrical detection can sense single molecule (SM) …