Selective mass transport mediated by two-dimensional confined water: a comprehensive review

X **, Y Chen, X Liu, L Lan, Y Sun, M Wu, KG Zhou - FlatChem, 2024 - Elsevier
Confined mass transport based on two-dimensional (2D) materials breaks the trade-off effect
between permeability and selectivity, significantly enhancing the efficiency of mass …

Controlling electroosmosis in nanopores without altering the nanopore sensing region

M Baldelli, G Di Muccio, A Sauciuc… - Advanced …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Nanopores are powerful tools for single‐molecule sensing of biomolecules and
nanoparticles. The signal coming from the molecule to be analyzed strongly depends on its …

Energy harvesting from water streaming at charged surface

D Xu, M Yan, Y **e - Electrophoresis, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Water flowing at a charged surface may produce electricity, known as streaming
current/potentials, which may be traced back to the 19th century. However, due to the low …

Ultrahigh-Flux Water Nanopumps Generated by Asymmetric Terahertz Absorption

QL Zhang, T Zhou, C Chang, SY Gu, YJ Wang, Q Liu… - Physical Review Letters, 2024 - APS
Controlling active transport of water through membrane channels is essential for advanced
nanofluidic devices. Despite advancements in water nanopump design using techniques …

Enhanced Rectification Performance in Bipolar Janus Graphene Oxide Channels by Lateral Electric Fields

S Li, X Zhang, J Su - Langmuir, 2024 - ACS Publications
Improving the ionic rectification in nanochannels enables versatile applications such as
biosensors, energy harvesting, and fluidic diodes. While previous work mostly focused on …

Counterion Blockade in a Heterogeneously Charged Single-File Water Channel

S Zhang, L Fu, Y **e - The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 2024 - ACS Publications
The Possion–Nernst–Planck theories fail to describe the ionic transport in Angstrom
channels, where conduction deviates from Ohm's law, which is attributed to the …

A highly-selective biomimetic potassium channel

J Zhu, H Qiu, W Guo - National Science Review, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Reproducing the outstanding selectivity achieved by biological ion channels in artificial
channel systems can revolutionize applications ranging from membrane filtration to single …

Water compression induced ionic negative differential resistance in nanopores

H Tan, Z He, R Zhou, J Feng - The Journal of Chemical Physics, 2024 - pubs.aip.org
The mass transport behavior through nanoscale channels, greatly influenced by the
structures and dynamics of nanoconfined water, plays an essential role in many biophysical …

A terahertz-driven controllable water nanopump

QL Zhang, YJ Wang, H Yang, YF Deng, TQ Wang… - Physics of …, 2025 - pubs.aip.org
Manipulating water flow in nanochannels is crucial for advancing nanotechnology and
nanofluidic. Using molecular dynamics simulation, we demonstrate that both the direction …

Unexpected water transfer enhancement through nanochannels via inserting an inner embedded nanochannel

XW Meng, LY Wang - Chemical Physics Letters, 2023 - Elsevier
Thermal fluctuations can significantly slow down water transfer rate, and result in low
unidirectional transport efficiency. However, in this study, we employ molecular dynamics …