Mass transport through carbon nanotube membranes in three different regimes: Ionic diffusion and gas and liquid flow

ACS Nano

Volumn 5, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 3867-3877

  Majumder, Mainak ^a,c   Chopra, Nitin ^b,d   Hinds, Bruce J ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

^c MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA   (United States)

Author keywords

Biomimetic; Membrane; Nanofluidics; Separations

Indexed keywords

BULK DIFFUSIONS; CARBON NANOTUBE MEMBRANES; CARBOXYLIC ACID GROUPS; DIFFUSIVE TRANSPORT; EXPERIMENTAL RESEARCH; FUNCTIONALIZATIONS; GAS AND LIQUID FLOWS; HYDRODYNAMIC FLOWS; IONIC DIFFUSION; IONIC TRANSPORTS; ISOPROPYL ALCOHOLS; KNUDSEN DIFFUSION; LIQUID FLOW; MOLECULAR TRANSPORT; NONPOLAR LIQUIDS; ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE; PLASMA OXIDATION; POLAR LIQUIDS; PORE AREAS; PRESSURE-DRIVEN; SLIP CONDITION; TRANSPORT PHENOMENA; WATER FLOWS;

BIOMIMETICS; CARBON DIOXIDE; CARBON NANOTUBES; CARBOXYLIC ACIDS; DIFFUSION IN SOLIDS; ETHANOL; FLOW OF WATER; HEXANE; HYDRAULICS; MEMBRANES; PARAFFINS;

LIQUIDS;

CARBON NANOTUBE; ION;

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL MEMBRANE; CHEMICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIFFUSION; GAS; PARTICLE SIZE; PHASE TRANSITION; POROSITY; SOLUTION AND SOLUBILITY; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIFFUSION; GASES; IONS; MEMBRANES, ARTIFICIAL; MODELS, CHEMICAL; NANOTUBES, CARBON; PARTICLE SIZE; PHASE TRANSITION; POROSITY; SOLUTIONS;

EID: 79959809734     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn200222g     Document Type: Article

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