Capturing single molecules by nanopores: measured times and thermodynamics

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Publication Date 2021-01-07
DOI 10.1039/D0CP04747C
Impact Factor 3.676
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In numerous nanopore sensing applications transient interruptions in ion current through single nanopores induced by capturing solute molecules are a source of information on how solutes interact with the nanopores. We show that the distribution of time spent by a single captured solute molecule in a nanopore is bimodal with the majority of capture events being too fast to be experimentally resolved. As a result, the exact mean durations of the event and inter-event interval are orders of magnitude shorter than their measured values. Moreover, the exact and measured mean durations have qualitatively different dependences on the molecule diffusivity. This leads to a formal contradiction with the thermodynamics of molecule partitioning between the bulk and the nanopore. Here we resolve this controversy. We also demonstrate that, surprisingly, the probability of finding a molecule in the nanopore, obtained from the ratio of the measured mean durations of the capture event and interevent interval, is essentially identical to the exact equilibrium thermodynamic probability.

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