Electroosmosis in nanopores: computational methods and technological applications

A Gubbiotti, M Baldelli, G Di Muccio… - … in Physics: X, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Electroosmosis is a fascinating effect where liquid motion is induced by an applied electric
field. Counter ions accumulate in the vicinity of charged surfaces, triggering a coupling …

Biomimetic nanochannels: From fabrication principles to theoretical insights

X Kan, C Wu, L Wen, L Jiang - Small Methods, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Biological nanochannels which can regulate ionic transport across cell membranes
intelligently play a significant role in physiological functions. Inspired by these …

Quantitative Understanding of Cation Effects on the Electrochemical Reduction of CO2 and H+ in Acidic Solution

HG Qin, FZ Li, YF Du, LF Yang, H Wang, YY Bai… - ACS …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Conducting electrochemical reduction of CO2 in acidic media can effectively increase the
utilization efficiency of CO2. Alkali cations (M+) are indispensable for CO2 reduction in …

Modeling the electrical double layer to understand the reaction environment in a CO 2 electrocatalytic system

D Bohra, JH Chaudhry, T Burdyny, EA Pidko… - Energy & …, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
The environment of a CO2 electroreduction (CO2ER) catalyst is intimately coupled with the
surface reaction energetics and is therefore a critical aspect of the overall system …

Protein sequencing via nanopore based devices: a nanofluidics perspective

M Chinappi, F Cecconi - Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
Proteins perform a huge number of central functions in living organisms, thus all the new
techniques allowing their precise, fast and accurate characterization at single-molecule level …

Rapid and accurate determination of nanopore ionic current using a steric exclusion model

J Wilson, K Sarthak, W Si, L Gao, A Aksimentiev - Acs Sensors, 2019 - ACS Publications
Nanopore sensing has emerged as a versatile approach to detection and identification of
biomolecules. Presently, researchers rely on experience and intuition for choosing or …

Close encounters with DNA

C Maffeo, J Yoo, J Comer, DB Wells… - Journal of Physics …, 2014 - iopscience.iop.org
Over the past ten years, the all-atom molecular dynamics method has grown in the scale of
both systems and processes amenable to it and in its ability to make quantitative predictions …

Accurate modeling of a biological nanopore with an extended continuum framework

K Willems, D Ruić, FLR Lucas, U Barman, N Verellen… - Nanoscale, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Despite the broad success of biological nanopores as powerful instruments for the analysis
of proteins and nucleic acids at the single-molecule level, a fast simulation methodology to …

Positivity preserving finite difference methods for Poisson–Nernst–Planck equations with steric interactions: Application to slit-shaped nanopore conductance

J Ding, Z Wang, S Zhou - Journal of Computational Physics, 2019 - Elsevier
To study ion transport in electrolyte solutions, we propose numerical methods for a modified
Poisson–Nernst–Planck model with ionic steric effects (SPNP). Positivity preserving …

A free energy satisfying discontinuous Galerkin method for one-dimensional Poisson–Nernst–Planck systems

H Liu, Z Wang - Journal of Computational Physics, 2017 - Elsevier
We design an arbitrary-order free energy satisfying discontinuous Galerkin (DG) method for
solving time-dependent Poisson–Nernst–Planck systems. Both the semi-discrete and fully …