Collaboration with Actis Group (Leeds, UK) Results in Publication in ACS Nano

The Edwards Group’s collaboration with the Actis Group at the University of Leeds has led to the publication of an article in ACS Nano. The work details how a minor modification to a nanopore sensing experiment (the addition of polyethylene glycol (PEG) to the bath solution) results in dramatic enhancement in the detection of RNA (>6x improvement). Detailed experiments comparing the results with different cations and anions show that the cation-PEG interaction plays an important role in this enhancement. To learn more, read the open access article.