Water-mediated signal multiplication with Y-shaped carbon nanotubes

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 106, Issue 43, 2009, Pages 18120-18124

  Tu, Yusong ^a,b   Xiu, Peng ^a,c   Wan, Rongzheng ^a   Hu, Jun ^a   Zhou, Ruhong ^d,e   Fang, Haiping ^a  

^a SHANGHAI INSTITUTE OF APPLIED PHYSICS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c SHANDONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^e Howard Hughes Medical Institute   (United States)

Author keywords

Confined water; Molecular dynamics; Molecular signal transmission; Signal transduction; Y shaped nanochannel

Indexed keywords

CARBON NANOTUBE; NANOCHANNEL; WATER;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; DIPOLE; ELECTRICITY; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REACTION TIME; ROOM TEMPERATURE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

BIOMEDICAL AND DENTAL MATERIALS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR CONFORMATION; NANOTUBES, CARBON; WATER;

EID: 70849127936     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0902676106     Document Type: Article

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