Self-assembling subnanometer pores with unusual mass-transport properties

Nature Communications

Volumn 3, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Zhou, Xibin ^a   Liu, Guande ^b   Yamato, Kazuhiro ^c   Shen, Yi ^d   Cheng, Ruixian ^a   Wei, Xiaoxi ^c   Bai, Wanli ^a   Gao, Yi ^d,e   Li, Hui ^e   Liu, Yi ^a   Liu, Futao ^a   Czajkowsky, Daniel M ^d   Wang, Jingfang ^b   Dabney, Michael J ^c   Cai, Zhonghou ^f   Hu, Jun ^d   Bright, Frank V ^c   He, Lan ^a   Zeng, Xiao Cheng ^e   Shao, Zhifeng ^b   Gong, Bing ^a,c   more..

^a BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

^d SHANGHAI INSTITUTE OF APPLIED PHYSICS   (China)

^e UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

^f ARGONNE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MACROCYCLIC COMPOUND; NANOMATERIAL;

ARTICLE; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; CHEMICAL INTERACTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; HYDROGEN BOND; HYDROPHOBICITY; ION TRANSPORT; LIPID BILAYER; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT; NANOPORE; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SOLID STATE; SYNTHESIS; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; WATER TRANSPORT;

EID: 84864830448     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms1949     Document Type: Article

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