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Making nanopores from nanotubes

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Single-walled carbon nanotubes can be used to detect single DNA molecules as they pass through the nanotubes under the influence of an applied electric field.

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Figure 1: Detecting DNA with carbon nanotubes.

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  1. Zuzanna S. Siwy and Matthew Davenport are in the Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of California, Irvine, California 92697, USA. zsiwy@uci.edu.,

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Siwy, Z., Davenport, M. Making nanopores from nanotubes. Nature Nanotech 5, 174–175 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1038/nnano.2010.33

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