Water transport with a carbon nanotube pump

ACS Nano

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 2338-2344

  Duan, Wen Hui ^a   Wang, Quan ^b  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Carbon nanotubes; Energy pump; Molecular dynamics simulations; Van der Waals energy; Water transportation

Indexed keywords

A-CARBON; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATIONS; NANOTUBE CHANNELS; NANOTUBE WALLS; RESULTANT FORCES; TRANSPORTATION PROCESS; VAN DER WAALS ENERGIES; WATER MOLECULE; WATER TRANSPORT; WATER TRANSPORTATION; WATER VELOCITIES;

CARBON NANOTUBES; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; PUMPS; TRANSPORTATION; VAN DER WAALS FORCES;

MOLECULES;

EID: 77951755303     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn1001694     Document Type: Article

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