Boron nitride nanotubes selectively permeable to cations or anions

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Volumn 5, Issue 24, 2009, Pages 2870-2875

  Hilder, Tamsyn A ^a   Gordon, Daniel ^a   Chung, Shin Ho ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Engineered ion channels; Ion selectivity; Membranes; Molecular dynamics; Nanotubes

Indexed keywords

ACTION POTENTIALS; BIOLOGICAL ION CHANNELS; BORON NITRIDE NANOTUBES; CELL FUNCTIONS; CHLORIDE CHANNELS; CONCENTRATION PROFILES; CURRENT VOLTAGE; FILTRATION DEVICES; ION CHANNEL; ION SELECTIVITY; ION STRUCTURES; IONIC SPECIES; MEMBRANE POTENTIALS; PERMEATION CHARACTERISTICS; POTENTIAL APPLICATIONS; SILICON NITRIDE MEMBRANE; STOCHASTIC DYNAMICS;

BIOSENSORS; BORON; CHLORINE COMPOUNDS; DYNAMICS; IONIZATION OF LIQUIDS; MEMBRANES; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NANOTUBES; POSITIVE IONS; SILICON NITRIDE;

BORON NITRIDE;

BORON DERIVATIVE; CATION; ELBOR; NANOTUBE;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CONFORMATION; CRYSTALLIZATION; MACROMOLECULE; MATERIALS TESTING; METHODOLOGY; NANOTECHNOLOGY; PARTICLE SIZE; PERMEABILITY; SURFACE PROPERTY; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

BORON COMPOUNDS; CATIONS; CRYSTALLIZATION; MACROMOLECULAR SUBSTANCES; MATERIALS TESTING; MOLECULAR CONFORMATION; NANOTECHNOLOGY; NANOTUBES; PARTICLE SIZE; PERMEABILITY; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

EID: 73849097643     PISSN: 16136810     EISSN: 16136829     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/smll.200901229     Document Type: Article

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