Proton-regulated rectified ionic transport through solid-state conical nanopores modified with phosphate-bearing polymer brushes

Basit Yameen; Mubarak Ali; Reinhard Neumann; Wolfgang Ensinger; Wolfgang Knoll; Omar Azzaroni

doi:10.1039/b920870d

Proton-regulated rectified ionic transport through solid-state conical nanopores modified with phosphate-bearing polymer brushes

Chem Commun (Camb). 2010 Mar 21;46(11):1908-10. doi: 10.1039/b920870d. Epub 2010 Jan 15.

Authors

Basit Yameen¹, Mubarak Ali, Reinhard Neumann, Wolfgang Ensinger, Wolfgang Knoll, Omar Azzaroni

Affiliation

¹ Max-Planck-Institut für Polymerforschung, Mainz, Germany.

PMID: 20198249
DOI: 10.1039/b920870d

Abstract

We describe the use of polyprotic polymer brushes to construct robust signal-responsive chemical devices mimicking the transport properties of proton regulated biological channels.

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Hydrogen-Ion Concentration
Ion Transport
Nanostructures / chemistry*
Phosphates / chemistry*
Polymers / chemistry*
Protons*

Substances

Phosphates
Polymers
Protons