Water in nanotubes: The surface effect

MH Köhler, JR Bordin, CF de Matos… - Chemical Engineering …, 2019 - Elsevier
Recent advances in nanotube synthesis and functionalization have allowed for new insights
into several physical-chemical aspects of nanofluidics. Processes thought possible only in …

Molecular origin of fast water transport in carbon nanotube membranes: superlubricity versus curvature dependent friction

K Falk, F Sedlmeier, L Joly, RR Netz, L Bocquet - Nano letters, 2010 - ACS Publications
In this paper, we study the interfacial friction of water at graphitic interfaces with various
topologies, water between planar graphene sheets, inside and outside carbon nanotubes …

Nanofluidic devices and their applications

P Abgrall, NT Nguyen - Analytical chemistry, 2008 - ACS Publications
Recent developments in micro-and nanotechnologies made possible the fabrication of
devices integrating a deterministic network of nanochannels, ie, with at least one dimension …

Advances in nanofluidics for water purification and filtration: molecular dynamics (MD) perspective

M Shahbabaei, D Kim - Environmental Science: Nano, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Worldwide industrialization and population growth have caused dramatic environmental
pollution that has led to a water crisis. A decrease in the quality of human life and annual …

Blockage of water flow in carbon nanotubes by ions due to interactions between cations and aromatic rings

J Liu, G Shi, P Guo, J Yang, H Fang - Physical Review Letters, 2015 - APS
Combining classical molecular dynamics simulations and density functional theory
calculations, we find that cations block water flow through narrow (6, 6)-type carbon …

Tuning the thermal conductivity of graphene nanoribbons by edge passivation and isotope engineering: A molecular dynamics study

J Hu, S Schiffli, A Vallabhaneni, X Ruan… - Applied Physics …, 2010 - pubs.aip.org
Using classical molecular dynamics simulation, we have studied the effect of edge-
passivation by hydrogen (H-passivation) and isotope mixture (with random or superlattice …

A Controllable Molecular Sieve for Na+ and K+ Ions

X Gong, J Li, K Xu, J Wang, H Yang - Journal of the American …, 2010 - ACS Publications
The selective rate of specific ion transport across nanoporous material is critical to biological
and nanofluidic systems. Molecular sieves for ions can be achieved by steric and electrical …

Transition to a superpermeation phase of confined water induced by a terahertz electromagnetic wave

Z Zhu, C Chang, Y Shu, B Song - The Journal of Physical …, 2019 - ACS Publications
Excellent permeation of one-dimensional (1-D) confined water across membrane channels
is implicated in physiological processes and widely inspires the design of novel …

Electricity resonance-induced fast transport of water through nanochannels

J Kou, H Lu, F Wu, J Fan, J Yao - Nano letters, 2014 - ACS Publications
We performed molecular dynamics simulations to study water permeation through a single-
walled carbon nanotube with electrical interference. It was found that the water net flux …

Carbon nanotube based artificial water channel protein: membrane perturbation and water transportation

B Liu, X Li, B Li, B Xu, Y Zhao - Nano letters, 2009 - ACS Publications
We functionalized double-walled carbon nanotubes (DWCNTs) as artificial water channel
proteins. For the first time, molecular dynamics simulations show that the bilayer structure of …