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Fluidics at the Nanoscale: Pores, Pipettes, and Channels
Wednesday, March 5, 2008
8:30 a.m., Room 271

Organizer:

Lane A Baker and Stephen C Jacobson, Indiana University

Speakers:

8:30     Ion Transport  through Nanopores: From Living Cells to Diodes and Transistors  ZUZANNA S SIWY, University of California, Irvine, Eric Kalman, Ivan Vlassiouk

8:50     Solvent Behavior in Hydrophobic Silica Nanotubes  DOUGLAS S ENGLISH, University of Maryland, Charles Luckett, Karthik Jayaraman, Sang Bok Lee

9:10     Nanoporous Colloidal Membranes with Controlled Molecular Transport  ILYA ZHAROV, University of Utah

9:30     Electrochemical Characterization of Nanoporous Films Fabricated from a Polystyrene–Poly(methylmethacrylate) Diblock Copolymer Immobilized on an Electrode Surface  TAKASHI ITO, Kansas State University, Yongxin Li, Helene C Maire

9:50     Recess

10:05    Biomolecular Recognition in Nanoscale Confined Spaces  S THAYUMANAVAN, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Elamprakash Savariar, Kothandam Krishnamoorthy

10:25    Detecting “Short” DNAs with Artificial Nanopore Membranes by Resistive-Pulse Sensing  KAAN KECECI, University of Florida, Youngseon Choi, Lane A Baker, Fatih Buyukserin, Charles R Martin

10:45    Lithography Using Nanotubes  PUNIT KOHLI, Southern Illinois University, Rashid Zakeri, Bojan Mitrovic, Charvi Patel

11:05    Scanning Ion Conductance Microscopy: Imaging Cells and Synthetic Membranes  LANE A BAKER, Indiana University

Overview:

Advances in fabrication techniques for creating nanopores, nanopipettes, and nanochannels have cast new light and opened new avenues for developing robust and sensitive analytical techniques. This symposium presents the state-of-the-art in nanoscale devices based on pores, pipettes, and channels and used for chemical sensing, separations, and lithography. Device construction and applications, as well as fundamental properties of fluid and material transport at the nanoscale are covered. Potential applications of these nanoscale systems are enormous, range from multiplexed sensing elements to single molecule lithography, and represent a frontier topic of research for both separation science and electroanalytical chemistry.