Confined fluids and electrolyte solutions in nanopores exhibit rich and surprising physics
and chemistry that impact the mass transport and energy efficiency in many important …

Nanocarriers have therapeutic potential to facilitate drug delivery, including biological
agents, small-molecule drugs, and nucleic acids. However, their efficiency is limited by …

Intracellular delivery is a key step in biological research and has enabled decades of
biomedical discoveries. It is also becoming increasingly important in industrial and medical …

Fast water transport through carbon nanotube pores has raised the possibility to use them in
the next generation of water treatment technologies. We report that water permeability in 0.8 …

Infrared-terahertz (IRT) resonant absorption complies with unique biomolecule fingerprints,
including neurotransmitters, proteins, ribonucleic acid, and deoxyribonucleic acid, rendering …

Not all nanopores are created equal. By definition, nanopores have characteristic diameters
or conduit widths between∼ 1 and 100 nm. However, the narrowest of such pores, perhaps …

Measurements and simulations have found that water moves through carbon nanotubes at
exceptionally high rates owing to nearly frictionless interfaces,,,. These observations have …

Biological ion channels rapidly and selectively gate ion transport through atomic-scale filters
to maintain vital life functions. We report an atomic-scale ion transistor exhibiting ultrafast …

Carbon nanomaterials are a class of low-dimensional materials that have aroused a great
deal of interest in the past 30 years since the spectacular debut of fullerene, the first member …

Ultra-selective and fast transport of K+ are of significance for water desalination, energy
conversion, and separation processes, but current bottleneck of achieving high-efficiency …