About the Authors

Harold Kwok

Contributed equally to this work with: Harold Kwok, Kyle Briggs

Affiliation Department of Physics, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Kyle Briggs

Contributed equally to this work with: Harold Kwok, Kyle Briggs

Affiliation Department of Physics, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Vincent Tabard-Cossa

tcossa@uOttawa.ca

Affiliation Department of Physics, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Competing Interests

A patent application was filed on the content of the work presented. “Fabrication of nanopores using high electric fields”, with publication number: WO2013167955 A1, and application number: PCT/IB2013/000891). Since this study, the authors have been awarded a research grant from NSERC in collaboration with Abbott Laboratories, but that funding was not used to support the work presented here. There are currently no further patents, products in development or marketed products to declare. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: VTC HK. Performed the experiments: HK KB. Analyzed the data: KB HK VTC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: HK. Wrote the paper: VTC. Discovered the fabrication process: HK.