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Nanopore-Based DNA Hard Drives for Rewritable and Secure Data Storage.

Accepted version
Peer-reviewed

Type

Article

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Authors

Keyser, Ulrich F 

Abstract

Nanopores are powerful single-molecule tools for label-free sensing of nanoscale molecules including DNA that can be used for building designed nanostructures and performing computations. Here, DNA hard drives (DNA-HDs) are introduced based on DNA nanotechnology and nanopore sensing as a rewritable molecular memory system, allowing for storing, operating, and reading data in the changeable three-dimensional structure of DNA. Writing and erasing data are significantly improved compared to previous molecular storage systems by employing controllable attachment and removal of molecules on a long double-stranded DNA. Data reading is achieved by detecting the single molecules at the millisecond time scale using nanopores. The DNA-HD also ensures secure data storage where the data can only be read after providing the correct physical molecular keys. Our approach allows for easy-writing and easy-reading, rewritable, and secure data storage toward a promising miniature scale integration for molecular data storage and computation.

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Keywords

DNA nanostructures, DNA nanotechnology, Molecular data storage, Nanopore sensing, Single-molecule, DNA, Information Storage and Retrieval, Nanopores, Nanotechnology

Journal Title

Nano Lett

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Journal ISSN

1530-6984
1530-6992

Volume Title

20

Publisher

American Chemical Society (ACS)

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All rights reserved
Sponsorship
European Research Council (647144)
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EP/M008258/1)