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Biological ion channels, as fundamental units participating in various daily behaviors with incredible mass transportation and signal transmission, triggered booming researches on manufacturing their artificial prototypes. Biomimetic ion channel with the nanometer scale for smart responding functions has been successfully realized in sorts of materials by employing state-of-art nanotechnology. Ion track-etching technology, as crucial branches of fabricating solid-state nanochannels, exhibits outstanding advantages, such as easy fabrication, low cost, and high customization. To endow the nanochannel with smart responsibility, various modification methods are developed, including chemical grafting, non-covalent adsorption, and electrochemical deposition, enriching the reservoir of accessible stimuli-responses combinations, whereas were limited by their relatively lengthy and complex procedure. Here, based on the electric field induced self-assembly of polyelectrolytes, a universal customizable modifying strategy has been proposed, which exhibits superiorities in their functionalization with convenience and compatibility. By using this protocol, the channels’ ionic transport behaviors could be easily tuned, and even the specific ionic or molecular responding could be realized with superior performance. This strategy surely accelerates the nanochannels functionalization into fast preparing, high efficiency, and large-scale application scenarios.
The membranes employed in this work are based on an UMAT experiment, performed at the beam line X0 at the GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung, Darmstadt (Germany) in the frame of FAIR Phase 0. We thank Yihui Xu and the service station of CAS key laboratory of infection and immunity for technical support during the revision of this manuscript. This work was supported by the National Key R&D Program of China (Nos. 2017YFA0206904 and 2017YFA0206900), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos. 21625303, 21905287, 51673206, and 21988102), the Strategic Priority Research Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (No. XDA21010213), Beijing Natural Science Foundation (No. 2194088), and the Key Research Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (No. QYZDY-SSW-SLH014).