The Lancaster Ion Channel Team

Functionalization of the artificial nanopores

Recently, much research attention is drawn to bulding the structures which reveal required conductive and selective peoperties. On that way, doping artificial nanopores with charged groups (carbon atoms, carbonyl, carboxyl etc), i.e. functionalization, becomes promising. Using Molecular dynamics simulations in graphene nanopores, we tend to mimic the conductive and selective properties of real biological channels, such as KcsA.