Fundamental studies of nanofluidics: nanopores, nanochannels, and nanopipets

DG Haywood, A Saha-Shah, LA Baker… - Analytical …, 2015 - ACS Publications
Ion, particle, and fluid transport in nanofluidic devices has received considerable attention
over the past two decades due to unique transport properties exhibited at the nanoscale. 1 …

Highly selective and high-performance osmotic power generators in subnanochannel membranes enabled by metal-organic frameworks

YC Liu, LH Yeh, MJ Zheng, KCW Wu - Science Advances, 2021 - science.org
The electric organs of electric eels are able to convert ionic gradients into high-efficiency
electricity because their electrocytes contain numerous “subnanoscale” protein ion channels …

A bioinspired ionic diode membrane based on sub-2 nm covalent organic framework channels for ultrahigh osmotic energy generation

M Gao, MJ Zheng, AFM EL-Mahdy, CW Chang, YC Su… - Nano Energy, 2023 - Elsevier
Electric eels can convert ionic concentration gradients into a high-efficiency power via a
large number of sub-2 nm transmembrane ion channels, which can exhibit high ion …

Voltage gated ion and molecule transport in engineered nanochannels: theory, fabrication and applications

W Guan, SX Li, MA Reed - Nanotechnology, 2014 - iopscience.iop.org
Nanochannels remain at the focus of growing scientific and technological interest. The
nanometer scale of the structure allows the discovery of a new range of phenomena that has …

Size dependent surface charge properties of silica nanoparticles

M Barisik, S Atalay, A Beskok… - The Journal of Physical …, 2014 - ACS Publications
Nanoparticle surface charge density plays an important role in many applications, such as
drug delivery and cellular uptake. In this study, surface charge properties of silica …

Bipolar electrode-based sheath-less focusing and continuous acoustic sorting of particles and cells in an integrated microfluidic device

Y Wu, X Ma, K Li, Y Yue, Z Zhang, Y Meng… - Analytical …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Sheath-less focusing and sorting of cells or particles is an important preprocessing step in a
variety of biochemical applications. Most of the previous sorting methods depend on the use …

Ion transport in a pH-regulated nanopore

LH Yeh, M Zhang, S Qian - Analytical Chemistry, 2013 - ACS Publications
Fundamental understanding of ion transport phenomena in nanopores is crucial for
designing the next-generation nanofluidic devices. Due to surface reactions of dissociable …

pH-regulated ionic conductance in a nanochannel with overlapped electric double layers

Y Ma, LH Yeh, CY Lin, L Mei, S Qian - Analytical chemistry, 2015 - ACS Publications
Accurately and rapidly analyzing the ionic current/conductance in a nanochannel, especially
under the condition of overlapped electric double layers (EDLs), is of fundamental …

Nanostructured, fluid‐bicontinuous gels for continuous‐flow liquid–liquid extraction

MA Khan, AJ Sprockel, KA Macmillan… - Advanced …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Fluid‐bicontinuous gels are unique materials that allow two distinct fluids to interact through
a percolating, rigid scaffold. Current restrictions for their use are the large fluid‐channel …

Roughness effects on the surface charge properties of silica nanoparticles

BO Alan, M Barisik, HG Ozcelik - The Journal of Physical …, 2020 - ACS Publications
The surface charge property of silica nanoparticles plays a key role in their function.
Previous studies assumed surface charge as a homogeneously distributed constant material …