Water transport through nanoporous materials: Porous silicon and single walled carbon nanotubes

ICONN 2010 - Proceedings of the 2010 International Conference on Nanoscience and Nanotechnology

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 196-199

  Shearer, Cameron ^a   Velleman, Leonora ^a   Acosta, Fernando ^b   Ellis, Amanda ^a   Voelcker, Nicolas ^a   Mattia, Davide ^b   Shapter, Joseph ^a  

^a Institute for NanoScale Science and Technology   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BATH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Carbon nanotube (CNT); Carbon nanotube membrane; Nanoscale water transport; Porous silicon (pSi)

Indexed keywords

AFM; CARBON NANOTUBE MEMBRANES; NANO SCALE; NANOPOROUS MATERIALS; PERFORMANCE COMPARISON; PRESSURE-DRIVEN; WATER PERMEABILITY; WATER TRANSPORT;

INTERNET PROTOCOLS; MEMBRANES; NANOSCIENCE; POROUS MATERIALS; POROUS SILICON;

SINGLE-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (SWCN);

EID: 80555142949     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICONN.2010.6045248     Document Type: Conference Paper

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