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A fork in the nano-road

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Symmetry is usually prized in nature, but the deliberate skewing of symmetry in nanofluidic devices can lead to elegant new ways of sorting biomolecules.

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Figure 2: The periodic nanofilter array.

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Austin, R. A fork in the nano-road. Nature Nanotech 2, 79–80 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1038/nnano.2007.18

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