Publications

Nanopore electrical approach is a breakthrough in single molecular level detection of particles as small  as  ions,  and  complex  as  biomolecules.

This  technique  can  be  used  for  molecule  analysis, and characterization as well as for the understanding of confined medium dynamics in chemical or biological reactions.

Altogether, the information obtained from these kinds of experiments will allow to address challenges in a variety of biological fields. The sensing, design and manufacture ofnanopores is crucial to obtain these objectives.

Aerolysin, a powerful protein sensor for fundamentalstudies and development of upcoming applications, HAL Archives 2019

The confined dynamics of water molecules inside a pore involves an intermittence between adsorption steps near the interface and surface diffusion and excursions in the pore network.

Depending on the strength of the interaction in the layer(s) close to the surface and the dynamical confinement of the distal bulk liquid, exchange dynamics can vary significantly. The average time spent in the surface proximal region (also called the adsorption layer) between a first entry and a consecutive exit allows estimating the level of ‘nanowettablity’ of water. As shown in several seminal works, NMRD is an efficient experimental method to follow such intermittent dynamics close to an interface.

Probing interfacial dynamics of water in confined nanoporous systems by NMRD, Tandfonline 2018

There are still unmet needs in finding new technologies for biomedical diagnostic and industrial applications. A technology allowing the analysis of size and sequence of short peptide molecules of only few molecular copies is still challenging. The fast, low-cost and label-free single-molecule nanopore technology could be an alternative for addressing these critical issues.

Identification of single amino acid differences in uniformly charged homopolymeric peptides with aerolysin nanopore, Nature Communications 2018