Analysis of channel shapes in track membranes by scanning electron microscopy

Journal of Microscopy

Volumn 237, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 404-406

  Orelovich, O L ^a   Sartowska, B A ^b   Presz, A ^c   Apel, P Yu ^a  

^a JOINT INSTITUTE FOR NUCLEAR RESEARCH   (Russian Federation)

^b INSTITUTE OF NUCLEAR CHEMISTRY AND TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

^c INSTITUTE OF HIGH PRESSURE PHYSICS   (Poland)

Author keywords

Etching; Fracture; Ion tracks; Nanopore

Indexed keywords

ETCHING; NANOPORES; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

CHANNEL SHAPE; CYLINDRICAL PORES; DIRECT OBSERVATIONS; ION TRACK; NEW APPLICATIONS; NON-CYLINDRICAL; PORE GEOMETRY; SCANNING ELECTRONS; TRACK MEMBRANES; TRACK-ETCH MEMBRANE;

FRACTURE;

NANOCHANNEL; SURFACTANT;

ACIDIFICATION; ARTICLE; CHANNEL GATING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENTAL ETCHING; GEOMETRY; MORPHOLOGY; NANOPORE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; SURFACE PROPERTY;

EID: 77149125581     PISSN: 00222720     EISSN: 13652818     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2818.2009.03272.x     Document Type: Article

References (16)

1. Apel, P.Yu., Blonskaya, I.V., Didyk, A.Yu., et al 2001a) Surfactant-enhanced control of track-etch pore morphology. Nucl. Instrum. Meth. Phys. Res. B 179, 55 62.
2. Apel, P.Yu., Korchev, Yu.E., Siwy, Z., Spohr, R. Yoshida, M. (2001b) Diode-like single-ion track membrane produced by electro-stopping. Nucl. Instrum. Meth. Phys. Res. B 184, 337 346.
3. Apel, P.Yu., Blonskaya, I.V., Orelovitch, O.L., Root, D., Vutsadakis, V. Dmitriev, S.N. (2003) Effect of nanosized surfactant molecules on the etching of ion tracks: new degrees of freedom in design of pore shape. Nucl. Instrum. Meth. Phys. Res. B 209, 329 334.
4. Apel, P.Yu., Blonskaya, I.V., Dmitriev, S.N., Orelovitch, O.L., Presz, A. Sartowska, B.A. (2007) Fabrication of nanopores in polymer foils with surfactant-controlled longitudinal profiles. Nanotechnology 18, 305302.
5. Cervera, J., Schiedt, B., Neumann, R., Mafé, S. Ramirez, P 2006) Ionic conduction, rectification and selectivity in single conical nanopores. J. Chem. Phys. 124, 104706.
6. Choi, Y., Baker, L.A., Hillebrenner, H. Martin, C.R. (2006) Biosensing with conically shaped nanopores and nanotubes. Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 8, 4976 4988.
7. Dörschel, B., Hermsdorf, D., Reichelt, U. Starke, S. (2003) Computation of etched track profiles in CR-39 and comparison with experimental results for light ions of different kinds and energies. Radiat. Meas. 37, 573 582.
8. Fleischer, R.L., Price, P.B. Symes, E.M. (1964) Novel filter for biological materials. Science 143, 249 250.
9. Harrell, C.C., Choi, Y., Horne, L.P., Baker, L.A., Siwy, Z.S. Martin, C.R. (2006) Resistive-pulse DNA detection with a conical nanopore sensor. Langmuir 22, 10837 10843.
10. Mara, A., Siwy, S., Trautmann, C., Wan, J. Kamme, F. (2004) An asymmetric polymer nanopore for single molecule detection. Nano Lett. 4 (3 497 501.
11. Orelovitch, O.L. Apel, P.Yu 2001) Methods for preparing samples of track membranes for scanning electron microscopy. Instr. Exper. Techn. 44 (1 111 114.
12. Orelovitch, O.L., Apel, P.Yu. Sartowska B. (2006) New methods of track membrane treatment in the preparation for further observation with scanning electron microscopy. J. Microsc. 224 (Pt 1 100 103.
13. Ramirez, P., Apel, P.Yu., Cervera, J. Mafe, S 2008) Pore structure and function of synthetic nanopores with fixed charges: tip shape and rectification properties. Nanotechnology 19, 315707.
14. Schiedt, B., Healy, K., Morrison, A.P., Neumann R. Siwy, Z. (2005) Transport of ions and biomolecules through single asymmetric nanopores in polymer films. Nucl. Instr. Meth. Phys. Res. B 236, 109 116.
15. Siwy, Z., Gu, Y., Spohr, H., et al 2002) Rectification and voltage gating of ion currents in a nanofabricated pore. Europhys. Lett. 60 (3 349 355.
16. Wharton, J.E., Pu, J., Sexton, L.T., Horne, L.P., Sherrill, S.A., Mino, W.K. Martin, C.R. 2007) A method for reproducibility preparing synthetic nanopores for resistive-puls biosensors. Small 3 (8 1424 1430.