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Realistic cataloguing of nanopores

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Despite an enormous number of nanopores that could, in principle, be formed in atomically thin materials, advanced modelling reveals that in typical experiments rather limited ensembles of most likely nanopores should be observed.

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Fig. 1: Examples of nanopores formed in graphene, as observed in both computational and experimental studies.
Fig. 2: Schematic of a molecule passing through a 3D nanopore (illustrated by the dashed line) constructed of multiple layers.

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