Effect of Surface Charge on the Resistive Pulse Waveshape during Particle Translocation through Glass Nanopores

This paper describes a fundamental study of the effect of electrostatic interactions on the resistive pulse waveshape associated with translocation of charged nanoparticles through a conical-shaped, charged glass nanopore. In contrast to single-peak resistive pulses normally associated with resistive-pulse methods, biphasic pulses, in which the normal current decrease is preceded by a current increase, were observed in the current–time recordings when a high negative potential (lower than −0.4 V) is applied between the pore interior and the external solution. The biphasic pulse is a consequence of the offsetting effects of an increased ion conductivity induced by the surface charge of the translocating particle and the current decrease due to the volume exclusion of electrolyte solution by the particle. Finite-element simulations based on the coupled Poisson–Nernst–Planck equations and a particle trajectory calculation successfully capture the evolution of the waveshape from a single resistive pulse to a ...

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