PhD Projects

Molecular Transport Across Ionic Liquid--Aqueous Electrolyte Interface in a MoS2 nanopore

Manish Shankla and Aleksei Aksimentiev

ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces

What happens when we electify the interface of two-immiscible current carrying solutions and we add DNA?

2020
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Step-defect guided delivery of DNA to a graphene nanopore

Manish Shankla and Aleksei Aksimentiev

Nature Nanotechnology

Guiding DNA using templated nano-highways for down-stream analysis.

2019
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PoreDesigner for tuning solute selectivity in a robust and highly permeable outer membrane pore

Ratul Chowdhury, Tingwei Ren, Manish Shankla, Karl Decker, Matthew Grisewood, Jeevan Prabhakar, Carol Baker, John H Golbeck, Aleksei Aksimentiev, Manish Kumar, Costas D Maranas

Nature Communications

Improving desalination using cleverly designed biological pores.

2018
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Modulation of Molecular Flux Using a Graphene Nanopore Capacitor.

Manish Shankla and Aleksei Aksimentiev

The Journal of Physical Chemistry B

Current gating is a foundation of electrical circiutry. We engineered a nanopore capacitor to gate nano-fluidic current.

2017
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Slowing DNA Transport Using Graphene–DNA Interactions.

Shouvik Banerjee, James Wilson, Jiwook Shim, Manish Shankla, Elise A. Corbin, Aleksei Aksimentiev, and Rashid Bashir.

Advanced Functional Materials

We design a stacked graphene-Alumina-graphnene architecture to slow the movement of DNA for sequencing readouts.

2015
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Conformational transitions and stop-and-go nanopore transport of single-stranded DNA on charged graphene.

Manish Shankla, and Aleksei Aksimentiev

Nature Communications

Charged membranes electrically control DNA transport and lead to never-before seen DNA conformations which we can classify.

2015
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