Nanofluidics has firmly established itself as a new field in fluid mechanics, as novel
properties have been shown to emerge in fluids at the nanometric scale. Thanks to recent …

Osmosis is a universal phenomenon occurring in a broad variety of processes and fields. It
is the archetype of entropic forces, both trivial in its fundamental expression–the van't Hoff …

This review gives a brief overview of experimental approaches used to assess the bending
rigidity of membranes. Emphasis is placed on techniques based on the use of giant …

Nanofluidics has emerged recently in the footsteps of microfluidics, following the quest for
scale reduction inherent to nanotechnologies. By definition, nanofluidics explores transport …

The dynamics of constituents and the surface response of cellular membranes—also in
connection to the binding of various particles and macromolecules to the membrane—are …

Our understanding of the “long range” electrodynamic, electrostatic, and polar interactions
that dominate the organization of small objects at separations beyond an interatomic bond …

We study the variation of the dielectric response of a dielectric liquid (eg water) when a salt
is added to the solution. Employing field-theoretical methods, we expand the Gibbs free …

The behavior of electrolyte solutions close to a charged surface is studied theoretically. A
modified Poisson–Boltzmann equation that takes into account the volume excluded by the …

The thickness of a single flat electrical double layer is considered. The electrostatic mean
field and the excluded volume effect are taken into account. A simple statistical mechanical …

Nanofluidic systems show great promise for applications in energy conversion, where their
performance can be enhanced by nanoscale liquid-solid slip. However, efficiency is also …