Water confinement in hydrophobic nanopores. Pressure-induced wetting and drying

ACS Nano

Volumn 4, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 5069-5075

  Smirnov, Sergei ^a   Vlassiouk, Ivan ^a,b   Takmakov, Pavel ^a,c   Rios, Fabian ^a  

^a NEW MEXICO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

Author keywords

hydrophobicity; ionic conductance; nanopores; spontaneous dewetting

Indexed keywords

AQUEOUS SOLUTIONS; CRITICAL PRESSURES; CROSS SECTION; DE-WETTING; HYDROPHOBIC MODIFICATION; HYDROPHOBIC NANOPORES; HYDROPHOBIC PORE; IONIC CONDUCTANCE; PORE DIAMETERS; WATER CONFINEMENT; WATER INTRUSIONS; WETTING AND DRYING;

FLOW OF WATER; HYDROPHOBICITY; HYDROSTATIC PRESSURE; LAPLACE EQUATION; SOLUTIONS; SURFACE TENSION; WETTING;

NANOPORES;

WATER;

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL MEMBRANE; CHEMISTRY; IMPEDANCE; NANOPORE; PRESSURE; SURFACE PROPERTY; WETTABILITY;

ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE; MEMBRANES, ARTIFICIAL; NANOPORES; PRESSURE; SURFACE PROPERTIES; WATER; WETTABILITY;

EID: 77957320968     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn101080k     Document Type: Article

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