Aptamer conformational dynamics modulate neurotransmitter sensing in nanopores

A Stuber, A Douaki, J Hengsteler, D Buckingham… - Acs Nano, 2023 - ACS Publications
Aptamers that undergo conformational changes upon small-molecule recognition have been
shown to gate the ionic flux through nanopores by rearranging the charge density within the …

Divalent cation dependence enhances dopamine aptamer biosensing

N Nakatsuka, JM Abendroth, KA Yang… - ACS applied materials …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Oligonucleotide receptors (aptamers), which change conformation upon target recognition,
enable electronic biosensing under high ionic-strength conditions when coupled to field …

A special connection between nanofabrication and analytical devices: Chemical lift-off lithography

CY Chen, CM Wang, WS Liao - Bulletin of the Chemical Society …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Chemical lift-off lithography (CLL) is a chemo-topographical nanopatterning technique
developed in 2012 which provides not only precise geometry control with sub-20 nm …

Precision-guided nanospears for targeted and high-throughput intracellular gene delivery

X Xu, S Hou, N Wattanatorn, F Wang, Q Yang, C Zhao… - ACS …, 2018 - ACS Publications
An efficient nonviral platform for high-throughput and subcellular precision targeted
intracellular delivery of nucleic acids in cell culture based on magnetic nanospears is …

Multiple-patterning nanosphere lithography for fabricating periodic three-dimensional hierarchical nanostructures

X Xu, Q Yang, N Wattanatorn, C Zhao, N Chiang… - Acs Nano, 2017 - ACS Publications
While three-dimensional (3D) configurable hierarchical nanostructures have wide ranging
applications in electronics, biology, and optics, finding scalable approaches remains a …

AIE-based superwettable microchips for evaporation and aggregation induced fluorescence enhancement biosensing

Y Chen, X Min, X Zhang, F Zhang, S Lu, LP Xu… - Biosensors and …, 2018 - Elsevier
Superwettable microchips with superhydrophilic microwells on superhydrophobic substrate
have attracted increasing attention in fluorescence-based biological and medical …

Narrower nanoribbon biosensors fabricated by chemical lift-off lithography show higher sensitivity

C Zhao, Q Liu, KM Cheung, W Liu, Q Yang, X Xu… - ACS …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Wafer-scale nanoribbon field-effect transistor (FET) biosensors fabricated by straightforward
top-down processes are demonstrated as sensing platforms with high sensitivity to a broad …

Aptamer recognition of multiplexed small-molecule-functionalized substrates

N Nakatsuka, HH Cao, S Deshayes… - … applied materials & …, 2018 - ACS Publications
Aptamers are chemically synthesized oligonucleotides or peptides with molecular
recognition capabilities. We investigated recognition of substrate-tethered small-molecule …

Large-area, ultrathin metal-oxide semiconductor nanoribbon arrays fabricated by chemical lift-off lithography

C Zhao, X Xu, SH Bae, Q Yang, W Liu, JN Belling… - Nano …, 2018 - ACS Publications
Nanoribbon-and nanowire-based field-effect transistors (FETs) have attracted significant
attention due to their high surface-to-volume ratios, which make them effective as chemical …

Chemical lift-off lithography of metal and semiconductor surfaces

KM Cheung, DM Stemer, C Zhao, TD Young… - ACS materials …, 2019 - ACS Publications
Chemical lift-off lithography (CLL) is a subtractive soft-lithographic technique that uses
polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) stamps to pattern self-assembled monolayers of functional …