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A fluid approach to simple circuits

Nature Nanotechnology volume 4, pages 403–404 (2009)Cite this article

Using simple components such as oil, salt water, lipids and proteins, plus routine genetic engineering techniques, it is possible to create simple nanofluidic circuits.

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Figure 1: Using engineered alpha-haemolysin protein channels as nanofluidic diodes to build an electronic circuit with half-wave rectifying properties.

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  1. Vicente M. Aguilella and Antonio Alcaraz are in the Department of Physics, Universitat Jaume I, 12080 Castellón, Spain. aguilell@uji.es; alcaraza@uji.es,

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Aguilella, V., Alcaraz, A. A fluid approach to simple circuits. Nature Nanotech 4, 403–404 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1038/nnano.2009.168

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