Why are carbon nanotubes fast transporters of water?

Nano Letters

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 452-458

  Joseph, Sony ^a   Aluru, N R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLOW ENHANCEMENT; LENNARD-JONES (LJ) PARAMETERS; WATER ORIENTATIONS;

FLOW RATE; HYDROGEN BONDS; INTERFACES (MATERIALS); MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

CARBON NANOTUBES;

CARBON NANOTUBE; WATER;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL MODEL; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIFFUSION; METHODOLOGY; MICROFLUIDICS; POROSITY; PRESSURE;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIFFUSION; MICROFLUIDICS; MODELS, CHEMICAL; MODELS, MOLECULAR; NANOTUBES, CARBON; POROSITY; PRESSURE; WATER;

EID: 40449101346     PISSN: 15306984     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nl072385q     Document Type: Article

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