Graphene with Nanopore (IMAGE)

Harvard University

Graphene with Nanopore

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A layer of graphene is shown with a tiny nanopore drilled into its surface. Researchers at Harvard and MIT demonstrated that the membrane holds potential for speeding up DNA sequencing due to its extreme thinness.

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Lab of Jene Golovchenko, Harvard University.

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