Nanofluidics
Polymer physics of DNA
Biophysics and biotechnology
Nanoscale fabrication techniques
DNA Nanostructures Characterized via Dual Nanopore Resensing
Wangwei Dong, Zezhou Liu, Ruiyao Liu, Deborah Kuchnir Fygenson, and Walter Reisner
ACS Nano 2025
Matheus AS Pessôa, Piotr Jakuc, Carolina Martins e Queiroz, Naomi Duggan, Ruiyao Liu, Seraphine Kautz, Sarah Ameur, Zezhou Liu, Wangwei Dong, Preethi Ravikumar, Sajad Shiekh, Han Cao, Michael Austin, Sara Mahshid, Deborah Fygenson, Walter Reisner
Science Advances 11 (38), eadv8863
Quantifying the growth mechanism of solid-state nanopores under high-voltage conditioning
Thomas St-Denis, Ryan Huang, Xavier Capaldi, Mackenzie Pereira, Ioannidis Duchastel-Vassaramva, Zezhou Liu, Peter Grütter, Walter Reisner
Nanoscale 17 (7), 4073-4081
Ophélie d’Udekem d’Acoz, Fong Hue, Tianyi Ye, Louise Wang, Maxime Leroux, Lucila Rajngewerc, Tung Tran, Kimberly Phan, Maria S Ramirez, Walter Reisner, Marcelo E Tolmasky, Rodrigo Reyes-Lamothe
Msphere 9 (3), e00789-23
Transient physics in the compression and mixing dynamics of two nanochannel-confined polymer chains
Lili Zeng, Xavier Capaldi, Zezhou Liu, Walter W Reisner
Physical Review E 109 (2), 024501
Tunable nanofluidic device for digital nucleic acid analysis
Imman I Hosseini, Seyed Vahid Hamidi, Xavier Capaldi, Zezhou Liu, Matheus Azevedo Silva Pessoa, Sara Mahshid, Walter Reisner
Nanoscale 16 (19), 9583-9592
Mixing and demixing arising from compression of two semiflexible polymer chains in nanochannels
Lili Zeng, Walter W Reisner
The European Physical Journal E 46 (9), 88
Mahsa Jalali, Carolina del Real Mata, Laura Montermini, Olivia Jeanne, Imman I. Hosseini, Zonglin Gu, Cristiana Spinelli, Yao Lu, Nadim Tawil, Marie Christine Guiot, Zhi He, Sebastian Wachsmann-Hogiu, Ruhong Zhou, Kevin Petrecca, Walter W Reisner, Janusz Rak, Sara Mahshid
ACS nano 17 (13), 12052-12071
Noise and fluctuations in nanoscale gas flow
Jehan Dastoor, Dawson M Willerton, Walter Reisner, Guillaume Gervais
Physica Scripta 98 (7), 075013
Zezhou Liu, Sarah M Christensen, Xavier Capaldi, Seyed Imman Hosseini, Lili Zeng, Yuning Zhang, Rodrigo Reyes-Lamothe, Walter Reisner
Soft Matter 19 (34), 6545-6555
Zezhou Liu, Xavier Capaldi, Lili Zeng, Yuning Zhang, Rodrigo Reyes-Lamothe, Walter Reisner
Nature communications 13 (1), 4358
Organized states arising from compression of single semiflexible polymer chains in nanochannels
Lili Zeng, Walter W Reisner
Physical Review E 105 (6), 064501
Discriminating protein tags on a dsDNA construct using a Dual Nanopore Device
Swarnadeep Seth, Arthur Rand, Walter Reisner, William B Dunbar, Robert Sladek, Aniket Bhattacharya
Scientific Reports 12 (1), 11305
Arthur Rand, Philip Zimny, Roland Nagel, Chaitra Telang, Justin Mollison, Aaron Bruns, Emily Leff, Walter W Reisner, William B Dunbar
ACS nano 16 (4), 5258-5273
Nanofluidics for simultaneous size and charge profiling of extracellular vesicles
Imman I Hosseini, Zezhou Liu, Xavier Capaldi, Tamer AbdelFatah, Laura Montermini, Janusz Rak, Walter Reisner, Sara Mahshid
Nano letters 21 (12), 4895-4902
Khadija Yazda, Katarina Bleau, Yuning Zhang, Xavier Capaldi, Thomas St-Denis, Peter Grutter, Walter W Reisner
Nano letters 21 (10), 4152-4159
Time-dependent knotting of agitated chains
Ingrid Gendron, Katherine Savard, Xavier Capaldi, Zezhou Liu, Lili Zeng, Walter Reisner, Luc Capaldi
Physical Review E 103 (3), 032501
Flossing DNA in a dual nanopore device
Xu Liu, Philip Zimny, Yuning Zhang, Ankit Rana, Roland Nagel, Walter Reisner, William B Dunbar
Small 16 (3), 1905379
An apparatus based on an atomic force microscope for implementing tip-controlled local breakdown
T St-Denis, K Yazda, X Capaldi, J Bustamante, M Safari, Y Miyahara, Y Zhang, P Grutter, W Reisner
Review of Scientific Instruments 90 (12)
Nanopore Formation via Tip‐Controlled Local Breakdown Using an Atomic Force Microscope
Yuning Zhang, Yoichi Miyahara, Nassim Derriche, Wayne Yang, Khadija Yazda, Xavier Capaldi, Zezhou Liu, Peter Grutter, Walter Reisner
Small Methods 3 (7), 1900147
Controlling DNA tug‐of‐war in a dual nanopore device
Xu Liu, Yuning Zhang, Roland Nagel, Walter Reisner, William B Dunbar
Small 15 (30), 1901704
From 2D to 3D: Graphene molding for transparent and flexible probes
Martin Lee, Thai-An Vuong, Eric Whiteway, Xavier Capaldi, Yuning Zhang, Walter Reisner, Carlos S Ruiz-Vargas, Michael Hilke
Applied Physics Letters 114 (4)
Single molecule DNA resensing using a two‐pore device
Y Zhang, X Liu, Y Zhao, J Yu, W Reisner, W Dunbar
Small 14 (47), 1801890
Evolution of Nested Folding States in Compression of a Strongly Confined Semiflexible Chain
S Bernier, A Huang, W Reisner, A Bhattacharya
Macromolecules 51 (11), 4012-4022
A nanofluidic knot factory based on compression of single DNA in nanochannels
S Amin, A Khorshid, L Zeng, P Zimny, W Reisner
Nature communications 9 (1), 1506
Transverse dielectrophoretic-based DNA nanoscale confinement
S Mahshid, J Lu, AA Abidi, R Sladek, WW Reisner, MJ Ahamed
Scientific reports 8 (1), 5981
P Zimny, D Juncker, W Reisner
Biomicrofluidics 12 (2), 024107
Compression of Nanoslit Confined Polymer Solutions
Y Qi, L Zeng, A Khorshid, RJ Hill, WW Reisner
Macromolecules 51 (2), 617-625
Probing the organization and dynamics of two DNA chains trapped in a nanofluidic cavity
X Capaldi, Z Liu, Y Zhang, L Zeng, R Reyes-Lamothe, W Reisner
Soft matter
Methods and systems relating to dielectrophoretic manipulation of molecules
S Mahshid, MJ Ahamed, W Reisner, R Sladek
US Patent App. 15/596,655
Method for the mapping of the local AT/GC ratio along DNA
J Tegenfeldt, W Reisner, H Flyvbjerg
US Patent 9,597,687
Waves of DNA: Propagating excitations in extended nanoconfined polymers
AR Klotz, HW de Haan, WW Reisner
Physical Review E 94 (4), 042603
Dynamics of DNA squeezed inside a nanochannel via a sliding gasket
A Huang, W Reisner, A Bhattacharya
Polymers 8 (10), 352
Continuous Confinement Fluidics: Getting Lots of Molecules into Small Spaces with High Fidelity
MJ Ahamed, S Mahshid, DJ Berard, F Michaud, R Sladek, WW Reisner, ...
Macromolecules 49 (7), 2853-2859
Nonequilibrium dynamics of nanochannel confined DNA
A Khorshid, S Amin, Z Zhang, T Sakaue, WW Reisner
Macromolecules 49 (5), 1933-1940
CL Vestergaard, MB Mikkelsen, W Reisner, A Kristensen, H Flyvbjerg
Nature communications 7, 10227
Fabrication and characterization of nanopore-interfaced nanochannel devices
Y Zhang, W Reisner
Nanotechnology 26 (45), 455301
Dynamic imaging of Au-nanoparticles via scanning electron microscopy in a graphene wet cell
W Yang, Y Zhang, M Hilke, W Reisner
Nanotechnology 26 (31), 315703
AR Klotz, L Duong, M Mamaev, HW de Haan, JZY Chen, WW Reisner
Macromolecules 48 (14), 5028-5033
Experimental evidence of weak excluded volume effects for nanochannel confined DNA
D Gupta, JJ Miller, A Muralidhar, S Mahshid, W Reisner, KD Dorfman
ACS macro letters 4 (7), 759-763
Development of a platform for single cell genomics using convex lens-induced confinement
S Mahshid, MJ Ahamed, D Berard, S Amin, R Sladek, SR Leslie, ...
Lab on a Chip 15 (14), 3013-3020