Fluids at the nanoscale: from continuum to subcontinuum transport

N Kavokine, RR Netz, L Bocquet - Annual Review of Fluid …, 2021 - annualreviews.org
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 …

Nanofluidic osmotic power generators–advanced nanoporous membranes and nanochannels for blue energy harvesting

G Laucirica, ME Toimil-Molares, C Trautmann… - Chemical …, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
The increase of energy demand added to the concern for environmental pollution linked to
energy generation based on the combustion of fossil fuels has motivated the study and …

Fluctuation-induced quantum friction in nanoscale water flows

N Kavokine, ML Bocquet, L Bocquet - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
The flow of water in carbon nanochannels has defied understanding thus far, with
accumulating experimental evidence for ultra-low friction, exceptionally high water flow rates …

Ultrafast water harvesting and transport in hierarchical microchannels

H Chen, T Ran, Y Gan, J Zhou, Y Zhang, L Zhang… - Nature materials, 2018 - nature.com
Various natural materials have hierarchical microscale and nanoscale structures that allow
for directional water transport. Here we report an ultrafast water transport process in the …

Molecular transport through capillaries made with atomic-scale precision

B Radha, A Esfandiar, FC Wang, AP Rooney… - Nature, 2016 - nature.com
Nanometre-scale pores and capillaries have long been studied because of their importance
in many natural phenomena and their use in numerous applications. A more recent …

Superhydrophobic drag reduction in laminar flows: a critical review

C Lee, CH Choi, CJ Kim - Experiments in Fluids, 2016 - Springer
A gas in between micro-or nanostructures on a submerged superhydrophobic (SHPo)
surface allows the liquid on the structures to flow with an effective slip. If large enough, this …

Friction of Water on Graphene and Hexagonal Boron Nitride from Ab Initio Methods: Very Different Slippage Despite Very Similar Interface Structures

G Tocci, L Joly, A Michaelides - Nano letters, 2014 - ACS Publications
Friction is one of the main sources of dissipation at liquid water/solid interfaces. Despite
recent progress, a detailed understanding of water/solid friction in connection with the …

Nanofluidics, from bulk to interfaces

L Bocquet, E Charlaix - Chemical Society Reviews, 2010 - pubs.rsc.org
Nanofluidics has emerged recently in the footsteps of microfluidics, following the quest for
scale reduction inherent to nanotechnologies. By definition, nanofluidics explores transport …

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 …

Soft matter in hard confinement: phase transition thermodynamics, structure, texture, diffusion and flow in nanoporous media

P Huber - Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, 2015 - iopscience.iop.org
Spatial confinement in nanoporous media affects the structure, thermodynamics and mobility
of molecular soft matter often markedly. This article reviews thermodynamic equilibrium …