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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 17, 2015
Filed:
Mar. 02, 2012
Nader Pourmand, Scotts Valley, CA (US);
Boaz Vilozny, Santa Cruz, CA (US);
Paolo Actis, Santa Cruz, CA (US);
R. Adam Seger, Santa Cruz, CA (US);
Bakthan Singaram, Santa Cruz, CA (US);
Nader Pourmand, Scotts Valley, CA (US);
Boaz Vilozny, Santa Cruz, CA (US);
Paolo Actis, Santa Cruz, CA (US);
R. Adam Seger, Santa Cruz, CA (US);
Bakthan Singaram, Santa Cruz, CA (US);
The Regents of the University of California, Oakland, CA (US);
Abstract
Disclosed are methods and devices for detection of ion migration and binding, utilizing a nanopipette adapted for use in an electrochemical sensing circuit. The nanopipette may be functionalized on its interior bore with metal chelators for binding and sensing metal ions or other specific binding molecules such as boronic acid for binding and sensing glucose. Such a functionalized nanopipette is comprised in an electrical sensor that detects when the nanopipette selectively and reversibly binds ions or small molecules. Also disclosed is a nanoreactor, comprising a nanopipette, for controlling precipitation in aqueous solutions by voltage-directed ion migration, wherein ions may be directed out of the interior bore by a repulsing charge in the bore.