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A new look for nanopore sensing

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Coating solid-state nanopores with fluid lipid bilayers can reduce the translocation speeds of molecules and prevent the nanopores from clogging.

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Figure 1: Comparison of a conventional nanopore sensor and the fluid-coated nanopore sensor.

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