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Nanoporous Copper Films as Platform for UV-SERS: Sensitivity and Ability to Perform Chiral Discrimination
Huaizhou Jin, Anastasiia Sapunova, Yanqiu Zou +8
Surface enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS) in the ultraviolet (UV) region offers important advantages for biomolecular detection, including resonance enhancement and reduced fluore…
Voltage-Controlled Phosphate Precipitation Gating in Solid-State Nanopore Memristors
Weihong Wang, German Lanzavecchia, Ali Douaki +9
Nanofluidic memristors preserve a record of electrical activity via ion migration and alterations in conductance that depend on the history of the device s state. These characteris…
Sel-assembled Rhodium Nanoantennas for Single-Protein UV SERS
Yanqiu Zou, Nicco Corduri, Francesco DAmico +11
Surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) provides critical insights into analyte structure, dynamic processes, and intermolecular interactions at the single-molecule level. By expl…
Plasmonic nanopore to monitor in-pore chemistry
Weihong Wang, Shukun Weng, Ali Douaki +8
In solid-state nanopores, achieving reliable control over pore aperture opening and closing (gating) remains a major challenge. Gating can be driven by the applied voltage involvin…
Probing Electro-Magnetic Field Enhancement in 3D Plasmonic Nanopores Using DNA-PAINT and Nanorulers
German Lanzavecchia, Anastasiia Sapunova, Alan Szalai +6
Plasmonic nanopores combine nanofluidic confinement with electromagnetic field enhancement, enabling optical interrogation of single molecules in sub-wavelength volumes. Yet, direc…
Layered Bimetal Nanoporous Platforms for SERS Sensing
Yanqiu Zou, Anastasiia Sapunova, Tommaso Giovannini +15
Nanoporous metals are extensively investigated as platforms for applications in plasmonics. They present high surface areas and strong local electric fields that can be tuned at di…
Molecularly imprinted nanopores for multiplexed sensing, release, and in-edge computing
Ali Douaki, Shukun Weng, Silvia Dante +4
In nanopore technology, the development of multiplexed detection and release platforms with high spatial and temporal resolution remains a significant challenge due to the difficul…
Gated MoS2/SiN Nanochannel for Tunable Ion Transport and Protein Translocation
Shukun Weng, Ali Douaki, Makusu Tsutsui +6
Ionic transport in nanofluidic channels holds great promise for applications such as single-molecule analysis, molecular manipulation, and energy harvesting. However, achieving pre…
UV-SERS monitoring of plasmons photodegradation of biomolecules on Aluminum platforms decorated with Rhodium nanoparticles
Yanqiu Zou, Luca Mattarozzi, Huaizhou Jin +13
In the search for novel nanostructured materials for UV plasmonics a limited number of choices can be done. Materials such as aluminum, rhodium, gallium and few others can be used.…
Dynamics of DNA-Templated Ultrafine Silver Nanowires Formation
Qifei Ma, Mauro Chinappi, Ali Douaki +10
Recent research on silver nanowires prepared on DNA templates has focused on two fundamental applications: nano-scale circuits and sensors. Despite its broad potential, the formati…
Modular plasmonic nanopore for opto-thermal gating
Ali Douaki, Shukun Weng, German Lanzavecchia +8
Solid-state nanopore gating inspired by biological ion channels is gaining increasing traction due to a large range of applications in biosensing and drug delivery. Integration of…
Tailored Fabrication of 3D Nanopores with Dielectric Oxides for Multiple Nanoscale Applications
German Lanzavecchia, Anastasiia Sapunova, Ali Douaki +6
Nanopore sensing is a key technology for single-molecule detection and analysis. Solid-state nanopores have emerged as a versatile platform, since their fabrication allows to engin…
Porous aluminium decorated with rhodium nanoparticles, preparation and use as platform for UV plasmonics
Shrobona Banerje, Luca Mattarozzi, Nicolo Maccaferri +11
There is a high current interest for novel plasmonic platforms and materials able to extend their applicability into the ultraviolet (UV) region of the electromagnetic spectrum. In…
Ionic Current Rectification in Nanopores: Effects of Nanopore Material, Electrolyte and Surface Treatment
Andrea Doricchi, Anastasiia Sapunova, Ali Douaki +8
Ionic Current Rectification (ICR) can appear in nanopores, causing a diode-like behavior that originates from different efficiency of ion transport through the pore channel with re…
Theoretical Analysis of Divalent Cation Effects on Aptamer Recognition of Neurotransmitter Targets
Douaki Ali, Stuber Annina, Hengsteler Julien +6
Aptamer-based sensing of small molecules such as dopamine and serotonin in the brain, requires characterization of the specific aptamer sequences in solutions mimicking the in vivo…