Patent Application: US-201414777220-A

Abstract:
the ability to reshape nanopores and observe their shrinkage under an electron microscope is a powerful and novel technique 14 , 17 . it increases the sensitivity of the resistive pulse sensing and enables to detect very short and small molecules 12 , 31 . however , this has not yet been shown for glass having a tubular shape , for instance nanocapillaries . in contrast to their solid - state nanopore counterparts 25 , nanocapillaries are cheap , easily fabricated and in the production do not necessitate clean room facilities . nanocapillaries made out of glass - like materials such as quartz or borosilicate glass can be shrunken under a scanning electron microscope beam . since the shrinking is caused by the thermal heating of the electrons , increasing the beam current increases the shrink rate . higher acceleration voltage on the contrary increases the electron penetration depth and reduces the electron density causing slower shrink rates . this allows to fine control the shrink rate and to stop the shrinking process at any desired diameter . a shrunken nanocapillary may detect dna translocation with six times higher signal amplitudes than an unmodified nanocapillary . the invention opens a new path to detect small and short molecules such as proteins or rna with nanocapillaries and also increase the sensitivity of other techniques such as snom or scim , which also rely on conical glass capillaries .

Description:
the invention will be better understood below with some examples and some illustrations . fig1 . ( a ) scheme of the conical end of the nanocapillary . the shaded area depicts the region , which is imaged by the sem beam . the radius r is the penetration depth of the electron beam calculated by the theoretical penetration formula given by kanaya - okayama . ( b ) sem in - lens image of a quartz nanocapillary magnified 196 kx times at a stage angle of 60 degrees to increase the three dimensional perception . the electron high tension was at 3 . 0 kv , the beam current was at 171 pa and the working distance was 3 . 3 mm . ( c ) shrunken nanocapillary after 14 minutes of irradiation under constant angle and beam parameters . the process of deformation is also shown in a video in the si ( si_movie — 1 . avi ). clearly a reshaping of the nanocapillary is visible precluding the possibility of significant carbon deposition . this was supported by edx measurements included in the supplementary information in fig1 , fig2 . and table 51 . fig2 . ( a ) top side sem in - lens image of a nanocapillary before the shrinking process at time t = 0 . the beam parameters were hold constant at an electron high tension of 4 kv , beam current of 119 pa , a magnification of 200 kx times and a working distance of 5 . 1 mm . analysis of the black hole in the middle with imagej resulted in a diameter ( d ) of 42 nm . ( b ) after two minutes of constant imaging under the sem beam first contraction of the diameter can be observed . analysis of the black pore resulted in an inner diameter of 33 nm . ( c ) past 4 minutes after starting to image the nanopore had further shrunken reaching a diameter of 23 nm . ( d ) a final diameter of 11 nm was reached after 6 minutes . the beam parameters were held constant over the whole shrinking process . note that the process of shrinking is uniform from all sides . fig3 . edx spectrum recorded for the nanocapillary shown in fig1 ( a ). working distance was 8 . 1 mm , with an acceleration potential of 3 kv , a beam current of 119 pa and a magnification of 153 kx . the areas of the different peaks were calculated to deduce the relative chemical composition of the nanocapillary . the composition before and after the shrinking is displayed in table 51 . fig4 . ( a ) diameter shrinking over time while irradiated by the sem beam . the diameter at the different time points was normalized by dividing by the initial diameter at time zero . the shrinking was recorded with a constant beam current of 119 pa but varying beam potential ( also called eht for extra - high tension ) between 1 . 5 kv to 6 kv . interestingly the smaller the electron high tension is , the faster the shrinking of the diameter takes place . while the diameter shrinks to 0 . 5 of the initial diameter after 150 seconds at 1 . 5 kv it takes over 600 seconds to reach this ratio at 6 kv . ( b ) in contrast to the fig4 ( a ) the beam potential was held constant at 3 kv and the beam current was varied from 30 to 231 pa . for a beam current of 231 pa the nanocapillary shrinks to 25 % of its initial size after only 150 seconds while a low beam current of 30 pa it reaches only 75 % of its original diameter after more than 450 seconds . ( c ) shrink rate of the nanocapillary as a function of the beam parameters such as beam current ( black lower abscissa ) and electron high tension ( blue upper abscissa ). the shrink rate was calculated from the previous diameter - time dependence in fig4 . ( a ) and ( b ) by calculating the slope using a linear fit . the shrink rate shows a linear dependence from the beam current ( hollow black circles ); while a power law becomes apparent for the relation between the shrink rate and the beam potential ( hollow blue squares ). this is expected from the kanaya - okayama formula ( equation ( 1 )). the filled blue square at beam potential 3 kv was recorded at a beam current of 243 pa twice as high than the other data points at 119 pa . the doubled shrink rate is in agreement with the linear dependence between the beam current and the shrink rate . fig5 . ( a ) nanocapillary before starting the shrinking process with a diameter of about 71 nm . the beam potential was 6 kv , the beam current 171 pa , the working distance 5 . 1 mm , and the magnification was 292 kx . the scale bar represents 50 nm . ( b ) after 12 minutes of sem irradiation with constant parameters the nanocapillary had shrunken to a diameter of about 11 nm and was used for dna translocation experiments . the scale bar represents 50 nm . fig6 . ( a ) current in dependence of the applied potential for a nanopore shrunken under an sem beam to 11 nm and an unmodified nanopore of approximately 47 nm . the kcl solution was 1 m for both nanocapillaries and resulted in a conductance of 21 ns for the shrunken nanocapillary and 128 ns for the unmodified nanocapillary . the inset shows the shrunken nanocapillary with a diameter of around 11 nm . the white scale bar represents 20 nm . ( b ) current as a function of time showing the translocation of λ - dna with three exemplary current drops ( blue line ) at 0 . 5 v . the current was normalized to zero to improve comparison between the events . the black line is a cusum fit described by raillon et al . the graph in the right is the histogram of the current traces ( blue line ) and the fits ( black line ) for hundreds of events . the histogram shows the quantification of the events with the biggest peak at zero current representing zero dna strands inside the open nanopore . the blue line is generated from the raw current signal , while the black line results from the cusum fit ′. the second and third peaks around 49 pa and 109 pa are caused by one and two dna molecules residing inside the nanocapillary , respectively . ( c ) three exemplary current traces ( green line ) recorded for dna translocation through the 11 nm big nanocapillary at 0 . 5 v . the black line is the result from the cusum fit . the right graph is a histogram from several hundreds of events similar to the ones displayed on the left side . the green line is generated from the raw current data , while the black line results from the cusum fit . ( d ) current drop as a function of the number of dna strands for the nanocapillary with an inner diameter of 11 nm ( green hollow circles ) and 47 nm ( blue circles ) when applying 0 . 5 v . the values were obtained by fitting a gauss function to the peaks generated from the cusum in the histograms of fig6 . ( b ) and ( c ). with current drops of 323 pa for one dna molecule for the 11 nm nanocapillary compared to only 49 pa for the 47 nm nanocapillary a clear increase in the current blockage for smaller nanocapillaries can be observed . fig7 . percentage of the different folded states of the dna inside the shrunken ( blue spheres ) and unmodified nanocapillary ( green circles ). when translocating through the shrunken nanocapillary more than 75 % of the events are caused by an unfolded dna strand while less than 25 % are in folded or multiple folded states ( blue spheres at # dna 2 and 3 ). in contrast only about 50 % of the dna is unfolded when translocating through an unmodified and bigger nanocapillary ( green circle at 1 dna strand ). while over 35 % of the dna is translocating in a folded state ( green circle at 2 and 3 # dna ). table s1 . comparison of the chemical composition determined by edx measurements before and after the shrinking of the glass nanocapillary . the respective nanocapillary before and after shrinking can be seen in fig2 . the relative composition percentage of carbon ( c ) did only increase by 1 . 1 % ( from 17 . 8 % to 18 . 9 %) representing only small increase not able to explain the shrinking from 179 to 93 nm in horizontal and 106 to 29 nm in vertical direction . the quartz capillaries were purchased with an inner and outer diameter of 0 . 3 and 0 . 5 mm ( hilgenberg , germany ). the capillary were pulled with the laser pipette puller p - 2000 ( sutter , usa ). the pulling parameters were heat 550 , filament 0 , velocity 50 , deletion 130 and pull 150 resulting in a single pull after an activated laser for about 1 . 05 seconds . this resulted in nanocapillaries with a taper length of approximately 4 mm . detailed description of capillary pulling can be found in previous publications 25 , 35 . the resulting nanocapillaries from the pull were imaged under a field emission scanning electron microscope ( fesem or sem ). the merlin sem ( zeiss , germany ) did not necessitate the presence of a conducting layer on the glass nanocapillaries when imaging with the in - lens detector . this allowed determining the diameter of every nanocapillary before assembling it into the measuring cell , which was not possible before 25 . sem imaging was performed under a working distance between 2 and 9 mm , magnifications between 10 k and 500 k , beam currents between 10 and 5000 pa and acceleration voltages of 0 . 1 to 100 kv . edx measurements were also possible , permitting it to measure the chemical composition before and after the shrinking . edx measurements were performed using the aztexenergy software under a working distance of about 8 mm and beam potentials of 3 kv or higher . the nanocapillaries were assembled into a pdms cell , whose two reservoirs were only connected by the glass orifice 4 . the bottom of the pdms cell sealed with a 0 . 15 mm thick cover glass ( menzel - glasser , germany ). the reservoirs were filled with a potassium chloride ( kcl ) solution of 1 mol / l ( m ), 1 mm tris and 0 . 1 mm edta buffer at ph 8 . the solution was cleared from contaminating particles using an anotop 25 filter ( watman , usa ). to remove air bubbles inside the nanocapillary after addition of the buffer solution the pdms cell was degased inside a desiccator using a vacuum line 35 . oxygen plasma for minutes did improve this step by rendering the surface hydrophilic . to apply a potential and measure the ionic current the current amplifier axopatch 200b was used ( axon instruments , usa ) with a low pass bessel filter at 10 khz and a pxi - 4461 daq card ( national instruments , usa ) sampling at a frequency of 100 khz . the electrodes were made out of chlorinated silver electrodes ( ag / agcl ) which were placed on both sides of the nanocapillary to measure the ionic current through the nanocapillary . the dna translocation events were recorded and analyzed using a custom written labview program and a cusum algorithm , respectively 36 , 37 . the inventors surprisingly found that the diameter of nanocapillaries made out of quartz or borosilicate glass shrinks similar to silicon nanopores when imaged under sem electron beam 19 . this enables one to reach any desired diameter with nanocapillaries . this has an important impact on many fields such as an increased sensitivity for the resistance pulse technique or on the resolution of the scanning electrochemical microscopy 12 , 32 . fig1 ( a ) presents a schematic representation of nanocapillary showing the conical shape and the region of the tip , which contains a single nanopore . the shaded circle depicts the area , which is irradiated by the electron beam when imaged by the sem . the penetration depth of the electron entering the quartz glass made out of mainly sio 2 can be estimated by the kanaya - okayama depth penetration formula : the expression describes the penetration depth r of the electrons in dependence from the beam potential ( kv ), u , the atomic weight ( g / mol ), a , the atomic number , z , and the density of the imaged material ( g / cm 2 ), ρ . the penetration depth r is depicted in fig1 ( a ) with a black circle . from this equation one can see , that the penetration depth , r , increases with higher beam potentials , u . using the penetration depth an electron density , d e , can be defined as : n e represents the number of electrons and ½ πr 3 4 / 3 stands for the hypothetical penetration volume represented by a half sphere . calculating the electron density ( d e ) once can see that increasing the penetration depth , r , by having higher beam potentials decreases d e . increasing the beam current ( number of electrons per time ) increases the number of electrons and therefore augments the electron density . if one assumes a linear dependence between the electron density and the energy density it can be predicted that the energy density and hence the thermal heating will increase with higher beam currents or with smaller beam potentials . fig1 ( b ) shows a side view of a nanocapillary with a vertical inner diameter of about 175 nm at a working distance of 3 . 3 mm , a beam current of 171 pa and a beam potential of 3 . 0 kv . while holding the magnification constant at 196 kx and imaging the nanocapillary for 14 minutes the diameter shrinks approximately to 83 nm ( see fig1 ( c )). to facilitate determination of the inner diameter , nanocapillaries were aligned concentric to the electron beam . this enabled precise determination of its inner diameter ( see fig2 ( a ) to ( d )). the image sequence shows the constant shrinking of the nanocapillary under a beam potential of 4 kv , a beam current of 119 pa , a working distance of 5 . 1 mm and a magnification of 200 kx . the nanocapillary at time zero in fig2 ( a ) has an inner diameter of 42 nm , which constantly shrinks reaching 33 nm after 2 minutes ( fig2 ( b )), 23 nm after 4 minutes ( fig2 ( c )) and 11 nm after 6 minutes ( fig2 ( d )). carbon deposition was ruled out by energy dispersive x - ray spectroscopy ( edx ). edx measurements have been performed before and after shrinking of the quartz nanocapillaries to measure the increase in the carbon composition . similar measurements were already done by prabhu et al . who investigated shrinking in silicon nitride nanopores 19 . spectra like in fig3 were recorded using the aztecenergy software package , while having a working distance of about 8 mm and an acceleration potential of 3 kv . the software measured the chemical composition of our sample and allowed to quantify the relative amount of carbon on the nanocapillary before and after the shrinking . fig3 shows the spectrum before shrinking the nanocapillary , showing typical elements composing a quartz glass like oxygen ( o ), aluminum ( al ), silicon ( si ) and carbon ( c ). after 16 minutes of sem irradiation the nanocapillary had shrunken from a vertical high of 106 nm to approximately 29 nm . the edx measurement before and after the shrinking showed an increase of the carbon composition from 17 . 8 to only 18 . 9 % ( see table 51 ). this increase of only 1 . 1 % can be excluded to play an important factor in the shrinking process , which decreased the horizontal diameter from 179 to 93 nm and the horizontal diameter from 106 to 29 nm . the other chemical elements did also not show notable increase in the composition . to compare the effect of different parameters such as the beam potential or beam current a normalized diameter unit was chosen . for that the diameter value , d , was divided at time δt by the initial diameter value , d 0 , at time point zero ( t = 0 ). fig4 ( a ) shows the shrinking in the normalized diameter when imaged at different beam potentials ranging from 1 . 5 kv to 6 kv and a constant beam current of 119 pa . one can see that at lower potentials the shrinking process happens much quicker reaching 25 % of the initial size already after 150 seconds at 1 . 5 kv . at higher beam potentials the shrinking process manifests much slower reaching only 50 % after 600 seconds at 6 kv . the opposite behavior can be seen when the beam potential was held constant at 3 kv and the beam current was changed . in this case lower beam current values induce a slow shrinking and high values and fast shrinking ( see fig4 ( b )). while a beam of 30 pa causes the nanocapillary to shrink to only 75 % after 450 seconds the nanopores shrinks to 25 % of its initial size after only 150 seconds when imaged at 231 pa . fig2 ( a ) and ( b ) support our prediction , which anticipates faster shrinking with increasing beam currents but lower shrink rates with increasing beam potentials . to quantify the shrink rate the diameter changes were fitted with a linear function and the resulting slope was plotted in dependence of the beam current and the beam potential ( see fig4 ( c )). the shrink rate as a function of the beam current shows a linear dependence with a rate ranging from about 0 . 02 nm / s at 30 pa to 0 . 25 nm / s at 231 pa ( black circles in fig4 ( c )). in contrast , the shrink rate shows power law dependence when plotted as a function of the beam potential ( blue squares in fig4 ( c )). both dependences agree with our model . the number of electrons increases linearly with the beam current , augmenting the energy density inside the glass . this causes thermal heating of the nanocapillary and its diameter shrinking due to the surface stress ( see equation ( 2 )). but when the beam potential is increased the penetration depth of the electron entering the glass is increased . this diminishes the energy density , resulting in less heating and therefore smaller shrink rates with increasing beam potentials ( see equation ( 1 ) and ( 2 )). the ability to shrink nanocapillaries to any size has wide applications . one of them is the resistive pulse technique , which profits from a smaller nanocapillary with an increase in the signal amplitude 12 , 38 . to prove this a nanocapillary was shrunken to a diameter of 11 nm and incorporated into a pdms cell ( see fig5 ( a ) and ( b )). the nanocapillary was filled with a 1 m kcl buffer solution and the current was measured of a range of potentials ( see green circles in fig6 ( a )). fitting this iv - curve with a linear function reveals the slope which gives a conductance of 21 ns . to illustrate the effect of the shrinking an iv - curve was also recorded with an unmodified nanocapillary ( see blue circles in fig6 ( a )). the unshrunken nanocapillary with an approximated diameter of 47 nm showed a higher conductance of 128 ns than the 11 nm nanocapillary with only 21 ns . next , a 0 . 5 μg / μl λ - dna solution of the same ionic strength was added to the reservoir in front of the shrunken and unmodified nanocapillary . a positive potential was applied to the electrode inside the nanocapillary causing the λ - dna to translocate into the nanocapillary and reduce the ionic current 39 . fig6 ( b ) and ( c ) show exemplary current traces recorded at 0 . 5 v . it is characterized by quantized decreasing steps , revealing the number of dna strands inside the unmodified ( blue trace ) and shrunken nanocapillary ( green trace ) 25 , 40 . the black line is a fit by a previously described cusum algorithm by raillon et al . the algorithm allows the analysis of noisy data by generating better resolved histograms 37 . this becomes visible when looking at the histogram in fig6 ( c ) where the cusum generates peaks ( black line ) which are better pronounced than the peaks from the raw data ( green line ). the first and biggest peak represents the open pore current and is normalized to zero pa to better compare events in case of drifting baseline current . the second and third peak represent one or two dna strands inside the nanocapillary 25 , 40 . the peaks from the cusum fit in the histograms were fitted with gauss functions to determine their position and plotted in fig6 ( d ) against the number of dna strands . as predicted the current decreases due to dna strands inside the nanocapillary are much bigger when translocating through a smaller nanocapillary than a bigger nanocapillary . while a single dna strand causes reduction of 49 pa in the unmodified nanocapillary the dna inside the shrunken nanocapillary ( 11 nm diameter ) generates a more than six time stronger decrease of 323 pa . this expected increase in the signal amplitude permits detecting smaller molecules such as single stranded dna , rna or even proteins . the size effect of the nanocapillary has also been investigated on the folding ratio of the translocating dna . for this the number of data points within each folded state ( one , two and three or more dna strands inside the nanocapillary ) was summed up and divided by the total number of states . fig7 . shows this distribution of the folding states . when translocating through the small , shrunken nanocapillary the dna prefers an unfolded state with over 75 % of all current decreases being due to one dna strand inside the constriction ( blue sphere at one # dna ). less than 25 % are caused by folded dna strands ( blue spheres at 2 and 3 # dna molecules ). in contrast , when the dna moves through an unmodified , big nanocapillary ( about 47 nm diameter ) more than 37 % of the events are caused by two dna strands compared to only 20 % when using a shrunken nanocapillary . in consequence fewer events are caused by unfolded dna inside the nanocapillary making less than 55 % of all possible configurations ( see green circle at 1 # dna ). this finding shows that smaller nanocapillaries favor unfolded over folded dna when translocating as shown for similar systems like solid - state nanopores in silicon membranes ′. smaller diameter will increase the resolution of scanning electrochemical microscopy or surface near - field optical microscopy , which are both based on conical glass capillaries . also , 3d and 2d printing resolution could benefit from small conical pores . it has been shown that nanometer - sized orifices in quartz and borosilicate glass can be reshaped using an ordinary scanning electron microscope . the shrinking of the nanocapillary occurs within minutes which allow stopping the process at any desired size ranging from 100 to a few nanometers . the shrinking process was explained with a model based on the penetration depth by kanaya - okayama . the model predicts a linear dependence of the shrinking rate from the beam current and a power law dependence for the beam potential . this was shown experimentally for various beam currents and beam potentials . this finding enables to fine - control the shrinking by accelerating or decelerating it , permitting to reach small diameters within seconds or switch to slow and well controlled shrink rate if desired . interesting avenues to pursue include testing the effect of different pipette shapes and sem instruments on the shrinking behavior . further , it has been shown that shrinking the inner diameter of nanocapillaries increases the signal amplitude caused by the translocation of dna . in the future this will make it possible to detect smaller molecules like rna or proteins translocating through nanocapillaries . besides improving the resistive pulse technique it will also enhance other techniques like secm , snom , sicm , 2d or 3d - 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