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2019 Fiscal Year Research-status Report

Development of Alternating Current Resistive Pulse Sensing Using Transport-Induced-Charge Theory

Research Project

Project/Area Number 19K15600
Research InstitutionThe University of Tokyo

Principal Investigator

徐 偉倫  東京大学, 大学院工学系研究科(工学部), 講師 (50771549)

Project Period (FY) 2019-04-01 – 2021-03-31
KeywordsAlternating current / Electrokinetic pumping / Nanofluidics / Nanopore / Biosensing
Outline of Annual Research Achievements

We have made tremendous progress both experimentally and theoretically. The development of volumetric and gravimetric methods has been conducted for flow rate measurements in nanopores. We obtained the velocity of a dye droplet in a millimeter-scale capillary silica tube connecting to the nanopore reservoir to estimate the flow rate in the nanopores. On the other hand, the flow rate was directly measured by weighting the output solution from the nanopore tank, using a high precision analytical balance. Theoretically, we optimized the operation conditions using numerical simulation. It was found that there exists a critical size of nanopore (~ 30 nanometers) giving the highest flow rate for a fixed total cross-sectional area. These results can guide our experimental work in the second year.

Current Status of Research Progress
Current Status of Research Progress

1: Research has progressed more than it was originally planned.

Reason

There are a few reasons making our progress be ahead of the plan. First, for the ultra-low flow rate measurement experiments, we borrowed the experience from Prof. Yutaka Kazoe at Keio University, who has recently developed a novel method to accurately measure the flow rate in nanochannels. Given that we have mutual interests in nanofluidics, we have started collaboration for several topics. Another reason is that we have employed an excellent postdoctoral researcher coming from Tsinghua University in China, who has extensive experience in electrokinetics not only for experiments but also modeling. His join to the lab remarkably improves the quality of our work. I cannot ignore the tremendous efforts from our excellent students. It is indeed the teamwork resulting in the fruitful outcome.

Strategy for Future Research Activity

In the second year, our plan is to observe direct evidence in the experiments to verify the proposed transport-induced-charge theory. Although in the first year, we have constructed the experimental systems and used theoretical methods to predict the optimal conditions for measurements, the sudden arrival of the unprecedented COVID-19 pandemic has given some uncertainties to our schedule due to the temporarily shut down of all the experimental activities. If the situation allows us to perform experiments in the coming months, we will execute the plan and complete the experimental work. However, in the meanwhile, we are theoretically investigating thermal effects on transport-induced-charge phenomena. If the pandemic situation continues, we will shift the focus onto this theoretical work.

  • Research Products

    (14 results)

All 2019 Other

All Int'l Joint Research (3 results) Presentation (4 results) (of which Int'l Joint Research: 3 results) Remarks (1 results) Patent(Industrial Property Rights) (1 results) (of which Overseas: 1 results) Funded Workshop (5 results)

  • [Int'l Joint Research] Imperial College London/University of Nottingham/The Alan Turing Institute(英国)

    • Country Name
      UNITED KINGDOM
    • Counterpart Institution
      Imperial College London/University of Nottingham/The Alan Turing Institute
  • [Int'l Joint Research] Nanjing University(中国)

    • Country Name
      CHINA
    • Counterpart Institution
      Nanjing University
  • [Int'l Joint Research] National Taiwan University(その他の国・地域)

    • Country Name
      その他の国・地域
    • Counterpart Institution
      National Taiwan University
  • [Presentation] Anomalous DNA Translocation Behavior through an Ultrathin Nanopore: Effects of Transport-Induced-Charge2019

    • Author(s)
      Wei-Lun Hsu and Hirofumi Daiguji
    • Organizer
      Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) Tokyo International Conference 2019
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] Two-Dimensional Nanopore DNA Sequencing by Diffusion Current Measurements2019

    • Author(s)
      Wei-Lun Hsu, Yuji Nakagawa, Daisuke Egusa, Soumyadeep Paul, Ya-Lun Ho, Jean-Jacques Delaunay, Zhen Gu, Yi-Lun Ying, Yi-Tao Long, Eiji Abe, Yoshihiro Iwasa and Hirofumi Daiguji
    • Organizer
      2019 Materials Research Society (MRS) Fall Meeting
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] Isothermal DNA Sensing Using Diffusion Current2019

    • Author(s)
      Wei-Lun Hsu, Soumyadeep Paul, Zhen Gu, Ya-Lun Ho, Jean-Jacques Delaunay, Yi-Lun Ying, Yi-Tao Long and Hirofumi Daiguji
    • Organizer
      The 23rd International Conference on Miniaturized Systems for Chemistry and Life Sciences (MicroTAS 2019)
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] Wei-Lun Hsu, Soumyadeep Paul, Ya-Lun Ho, Jean-Jacques Delaunay, Zhen Gu, Yi-Lun Ying, Yi-Tao Long, Hirofumi Daiguji2019

    • Author(s)
      Diffusiophoretic DNA Transport and Sensing in a Solid-State Nanopore
    • Organizer
      第56回日本伝熱シンポジウムプログラム
  • [Remarks] 東京大学大学院 工学系研究科 機械工学専攻 大宮司・徐研究室

    • URL

      http://www.thml.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp/index.html

  • [Patent(Industrial Property Rights)] Analyzing Apparatus and Method Using A Pore Device2019

    • Inventor(s)
      Wei-Lun Hsu and Hirofumi Daiguji
    • Industrial Property Rights Holder
      Wei-Lun Hsu and Hirofumi Daiguji
    • Industrial Property Rights Type
      特許
    • Industrial Property Number
      62853471
    • Overseas
  • [Funded Workshop] The 322nd Graduate Program for Mechanical Systems Innovation Seminar2019

  • [Funded Workshop] The 321st Graduate Program for Mechanical Systems Innovation Seminar2019

  • [Funded Workshop] The 319th Graduate Program for Mechanical Systems Innovation Seminar2019

  • [Funded Workshop] The 302nd Graduate Program for Mechanical Systems Innovation Seminar2019

  • [Funded Workshop] The 298th Graduate Program for Mechanical Systems Innovation Seminar2019

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Published: 2021-01-27  

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