	US 11,981,557 B2
	Ohmic nanopore fabrication and real-time cleaning
Y. M. Nuwan D. Y. Bandara, Canberra (AU); Buddini I. Karawdeniya, Canberra (AU); Jugal Saharia, Dallas, TX (US); Min Jun Kim, Plano, TX (US); and Jason Rodger Dwyer, Providence, RI (US)
Assigned to SOUTHERN METHODIST UNIVERSITY, Dallas, TX (US)
Filed by Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX (US); and University of Rhode Island Board of Trustees, Kingston, RI (US)
Filed on Apr. 16, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/232,624.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/011,512, filed on Apr. 17, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2021/0325329 A1, Oct. 21, 2021
Int. Cl. B81B 1/00 (2006.01); B82Y 15/00 (2011.01); B82Y 40/00 (2011.01); C25F 3/02 (2006.01); G01N 27/12 (2006.01); G01N 33/487 (2006.01)

CPC B81B 1/002 (2013.01) [B82Y 40/00 (2013.01); C25F 3/02 (2013.01); G01N 27/127 (2013.01); G01N 33/48721 (2013.01); B01J 2219/00864 (2013.01); B82Y 15/00 (2013.01)]

20 Claims

1. A method of making one or more controlled-size nanopores in a membrane comprising:

providing a SixNy membrane; and

submerging the SixNy membrane in a buffered solution comprising Group IA-Cl or F: Group IA-hypochlorite in the presence of less than or equal to 1 V/nm of transmembrane electric field strength using two electrodes separated by the SixNy membrane.