Transport phenomena in nanofluidics

RB Schoch, J Han, P Renaud - Reviews of modern physics, 2008 - APS
The transport of fluid in and around nanometer-sized objects with at least one characteristic
dimension below 100 nm enables the occurrence of phenomena that are impossible at …

The charge of glass and silica surfaces

SH Behrens, DG Grier - The Journal of chemical physics, 2001 - pubs.aip.org
We present a method of calculating the electric charge density of glass and silica surfaces in
contact with aqueous electrolytes for two cases of practical relevance that are not amenable …

Surface-charge-governed ion transport in nanofluidic channels

D Stein, M Kruithof, C Dekker - Physical Review Letters, 2004 - APS
A study of ion transport in aqueous-filled silica channels as thin as 70 nm reveals a
remarkable degree of conduction at low salt concentrations that departs strongly from bulk …

Impurity effects at hydrophobic surfaces

Y Uematsu, DJ Bonthuis, RR Netz - Current Opinion in Electrochemistry, 2019 - Elsevier
The effective charge of hydrophobic surfaces and in particular of the air–water interface is a
crucial parameter for electrochemistry, colloidal chemistry and interfacial science, but …

Ionic selectivity of single nanochannels

I Vlassiouk, S Smirnov, Z Siwy - Nano letters, 2008 - ACS Publications
There has been an increasing interest in single nanochannel ionic devices, such as ionic
filters that control the type of transported ions and ionic diodes that rectify the ionic flow. In …

Correlation between electrostatic and hydration forces on silica and gibbsite surfaces: An atomic force microscopy study

A Klaassen, F Liu, F Mugele, I Siretanu - Langmuir, 2022 - ACS Publications
The balance between hydration and Derjaguin–Landau–Verwey–Overbeek (DLVO) forces
at solid–liquid interfaces controls many processes, such as colloidal stability, wetting …

Surfactant‐assisted sulfonated covalent organic nanosheets: extrinsic charge for improved ion transport and salinity‐gradient energy harvesting

S Zhou, Y Hu, W **n, L Fu, X Lin, L Yang… - Advanced …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Charge‐governed ion transport is the vital property of nanofluidic channels for salinity‐
gradient energy harvesting and other electrochemical energy conversion technologies. 2D …

Nanofluidic ionic diodes. Comparison of analytical and numerical solutions

I Vlassiouk, S Smirnov, Z Siwy - Acs Nano, 2008 - ACS Publications
Recently reported experimental and theoretical studies of nanofluidic nonlinear devices,
such as bipolar and unipolar ionic diodes, have yet to answer the question about the …

Slip-enhanced electrokinetic energy conversion in nanofluidic channels

Y Ren, D Stein - Nanotechnology, 2008 - iopscience.iop.org
We investigate theoretically the influence of hydrodynamic slip at the surface of a nanofluidic
channel on the efficiency with which electrokinetic phenomena can be used to convert …

Validity of the Boltzmann equation to describe Donnan equilibrium at the membrane–solution interface

AH Galama, JW Post, MAC Stuart… - Journal of membrane …, 2013 - Elsevier
To describe Donnan equilibrium at the membrane–solution interface, the simplest approach
uses the classical Boltzmann equation, based on a mean-field description of ions as ideal …