Solid-State Nanopore Sensors with Enhanced Sensitivity through Nucleic Acid Amplification

Anal Chem. 2023 Nov 28;95(47):17153-17161. doi: 10.1021/acs.analchem.3c03806. Epub 2023 Nov 15.

Abstract

Solid-state nanopores have wide applications in DNA sequencing, energy conversion and storage, seawater desalination, sensors, and reactors due to their high stability, controllable geometry, and a variety of pore-forming materials. Solid-state nanopore sensors can be used for qualitative and quantitative analyses of ions, small molecules, proteins, and nucleic acids. The combination of nucleic acid amplification and solid-state nanopores to achieve trace detection of analytes is gradually attracting attention. This review outlines nucleic acid amplification strategies for enhancing the sensitivity of solid-state nanopore sensors by summarizing the articles published in the past 10 years. The future development prospects and challenges of nucleic acid amplification in solid-state nanopore sensors are discussed. This review helps readers better understand the field of solid-state nanopore sensors. We believe that solid-state nanopore sensors will break through the bottleneck of traditional detection and become a powerful single-molecule detection platform.

Publication types

  • Review
  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Nanopores*
  • Nanotechnology
  • Nucleic Acid Amplification Techniques
  • Nucleic Acids* / analysis
  • Proteins

Substances

  • Nucleic Acids
  • Proteins