Patent ID: 8557097

Claim:
An apparatus for embedding a nanotube in a nanopore, the apparatus comprising: a membrane separating a reservoir into a first reservoir part and a second reservoir part, the nanopore being formed through the membrane for connecting the first and second reservoir parts; an ionic fluid filling the nanopore, the first reservoir part, and the second reservoir part; a first electrode dipped in the first reservoir part; a second electrode dipped in the second reservoir part; the nanotube embedded in the nanopore as a smooth inner surface for the nanopore in which an outer surface of the nanotube fits an inner surface of the nanopore from top to bottom; the inner surface of the nanopore forms a covalent bond to the outer surface of the nanotube via an organic coating when the nanotube is driven into the nanopore by a voltage bias being applied to the first and second electrodes.