Water transport and purification in nanochannels controlled by asymmetric wettability

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Volumn 7, Issue 15, 2011, Pages 2225-2231

  Chen, Qinwen ^a   Meng, Lingyi ^a   Li, Qikai ^b   Wang, Dong ^b   Guo, Wei ^a   Shuai, Zhigang ^b   Jiang, Lei ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF CHEMISTRY   (China)

^b TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

carbon nanotubes; molecular dynamics; tip functionalization; water purification; wettability

Indexed keywords

AQUEOUS ELECTROLYTE SOLUTIONS; AQUEOUS MEDIA; DIPOLE ORIENTATION; FUNCTIONALIZATIONS; FUNCTIONALIZED; FUNCTIONALIZED NANOTUBES; HIGH-ENERGY BARRIERS; HYDROPHILIC AND HYDROPHOBIC; HYDROPHILIC GROUPS; HYDROPHOBIC GROUPS; ION EXCLUSION; ION PERMEATION; LOW WATER; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATIONS; NANO CHANNELS; NANOFLUIDIC CHANNEL; POTENTIAL OF MEAN FORCE; PURE WATER; TRIFLUOROMETHYL; WATER COLUMNS; WATER DENSITY; WATER FILTERS; WATER MOTION; WATER PURIFICATION; WATER TRANSPORT; WETTING BEHAVIOR;

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; BIOMIMETICS; BIOPHYSICS; ELECTROLYTES; HYDROPHILICITY; HYDROPHOBICITY; IONS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NANOFLUIDICS; PURIFICATION; SINGLE-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (SWCN); TUBES (COMPONENTS); WATER SUPPLY; WATER TREATMENT PLANTS;

WATER FILTRATION;

CARBON NANOTUBE;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; METHODOLOGY; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NANOTECHNOLOGY; WATER MANAGEMENT; WETTABILITY;

MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATION; NANOTECHNOLOGY; NANOTUBES, CARBON; WATER PURIFICATION; WETTABILITY;

EID: 80051532830     PISSN: 16136810     EISSN: 16136829     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/smll.201100287     Document Type: Article

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