Vibrating carbon nanotubes as water pumps

Nano Research

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 284-289

  Qiu, Hu ^a   Shen, Rong ^a   Guo, Wanlin ^a  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY OF AERONAUTICS AND ASTRONAUTICS   (China)

Author keywords

Carbon nanotube; Centrifugal forces; Nanofluidics; Nanopump; Water dynamics

Indexed keywords

EID: 79952191788     PISSN: 19980124     EISSN: 19980000     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12274-010-0080-y     Document Type: Article

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