Solid-State Single-Molecule Sensing with the Electronic Life-detection Instrument for Enceladus/Europa (ELIE)
C. E. Carr, J. L. Ramirez-Colon, D. E. Duzdevich, S. Lee, M. Taniguchi, T. Ohshiro, Y. Komoto, J. M. Soderblom, M. T. Zuber
The paper introduces ELIE, a solid-state instrument for detecting amino acids and informational polymers to search for life on icy moons, demonstrating single-molecule detection of L-proline.
bioRxiv · Aug 31, 2022Biophysics