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Wiring-up ion channels

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Coating nanowires with lipid bilayers allows the use of biological ion channels as biosensors.

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Figure 1: Schematic of a silicon nanowire coated with a lipid bilayer (coloured green) containing ion-conductive peptide pores (shown in red).

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