Filtering of nanoparticles with tunable semiconductor membranes

ACS Nano

Volumn 7, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 7053-7061

  Nadtochiy, Anna ^a   Melnikov, Dmitriy ^a   Gracheva, Maria ^a  

^a CLARKSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Brownian Dynamics; filtering; nanoparticle; nanopore; semiconductor membrane

Indexed keywords

APPLIED VOLTAGES; BROWNIAN DYNAMICS; CHARGED NANOPARTICLES; ELECTROSTATIC POTENTIALS; LOCAL ELECTRIC FIELD; MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; TRANSLOCATION DYNAMICS; VOLTAGE-CONTROLLED;

BROWNIAN MOVEMENT; ELECTRIC FIELDS; MEMBRANES; NANOPARTICLES; NANOPORES; SEMICONDUCTING SILICON;

FILTRATION;

ARTIFICIAL MEMBRANE; BIOMATERIAL; ELECTROLYTE; NANOPARTICLE;

ARTIFICIAL MEMBRANE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; NANOPORE; NANOTECHNOLOGY; PERMEABILITY; POROSITY; PROCEDURES; SEMICONDUCTOR; STATIC ELECTRICITY; ARTICLE; METHODOLOGY;

BIOCOMPATIBLE MATERIALS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROLYTES; MEMBRANES, ARTIFICIAL; NANOPARTICLES; NANOPORES; NANOTECHNOLOGY; PERMEABILITY; POROSITY; SEMICONDUCTORS; STATIC ELECTRICITY;

EID: 84883239984     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn4023697     Document Type: Article

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