Nanofluidics

News and Updates

NIST Goes With the (Slow) Flow: New Technique Could Improve Biotech, Precision Medicine

September 26, 2019

Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have developed an optical system that accurately measures the flow of extraordinarily

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NIST Simulations Suggest Graphene Can Stretch to Be a Tunable Ion Filter

November 26, 2018

Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have conducted simulations suggesting that graphene, in addition to its many other

NIST Researchers Simulate Simple Logic for Nanofluidic Computing

June 29, 2018

Invigorating the idea of computers based on fluids instead of silicon, researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have shown how

A New Way to Measure Energy in Microscopic Machines

June 8, 2018

What drives cells to live and engines to move? It all comes down to a quantity that scientists call “free energy,” essentially the energy that can be extracted

Projects and Programs

Schematic showing DNA origami in a laser beam

DNA Origami for Precise Manufacturing of Nanoscale Structures

Over the past decade nanoscale science has produced varied and fascinating nanostructures with an extraordinary range of interesting and useful properties. In

Fluctuations and Nanoscale Control Software (Archived)

MATLAB Software [1-2] developed and referenced within Fluctuations and Nanoscale Control projects are available for download from this page. If you use this

Real-Time Tracking and Fluorescence Spectroscopy of Individual Nanoparticles (Archived)

The behavior and properties of macroscale objects are stable and predictable because they are the result of the average behavior of very large numbers of atoms

Advanced Materials Metrology

In this project we measure the fundamental electrical properties of materials from bulk to nanoscale from 1 MHz to 0.3 THz. Understanding the interaction of

Publications

Dynamic Measurement of Nanoflows: Realization of an Optofluidic Flow Meter to the Nanoliter-per- Minute Scale

August 8, 2019

Author(s)

Gregory A. Cooksey, Paul N. Patrone, James R. Hands, Stephen E. Meek, Anthony J. Kearsley

The ultimate performance of flow-based measurements in microfluidic systems is limited by their accuracy at the nanoliter-per-minute scale. But improving such

Optimal transport and colossal ionic mechano-conductance in graphene crown ethers

July 12, 2019

Author(s)

Subin Sahu, Justin E. Elenewski, Christoph Rohmann, Michael P. Zwolak

Biological ion channels balance electrostatics and hydration, yielding large ion selectivities alongside high transport rates. These macromolecular systems are

Colloquium: Ionic phenomena in nanoscale pores through 2D materials

June 27, 2019

Author(s)

Subin Sahu, Michael P. Zwolak

Ion transport through channels and nanoscale pores cuts across many disciplines, from single- molecule sensing to pharmacology and cellular physiology to

In aqua electrochemistry probed by XPEEM: experimental setup, examples, and challenges

November 10, 2018

Author(s)

Slavomir Nemsak, Evgheni Strelcov, Hongxuan Guo, Brian D. Hoskins, Tomas Duchon, D Muller, Alexander Yulaev, Ivan Vlassiouk, Alexander Tselev, Andrei A. Kolmakov

Recent developments in environmental and liquid cells equipped with electron transparent graphene windows have enabled traditional surface science