Scaling behaviour for the water transport in nanoconfined geometries

Nature Communications

Volumn 5, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Chiavazzo, Eliodoro ^a   Fasano, Matteo ^a,b   Asinari, Pietro ^a   Decuzzi, Paolo ^b,c  

^a POLITECNICO DI TORINO   (Italy)

^b HOUSTON METHODIST RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c ISTITUTO ITALIANO DI TECNOLOGIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTRAST MEDIUM; NANOMATERIAL; NANOPARTICLE; SINGLE WALLED NANOTUBE;

BIOTECHNOLOGY; FULLERENE; GEOMETRY; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; NANOTECHNOLOGY; PROTEIN; WATER FLOW;

ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BIOTECHNOLOGY; BODY WATER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFUSION; DIPOLE; ELECTRIC FIELD; GEOMETRY; MODULATION; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NANOPORE; NANOTECHNOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; SIMULATION; STATIC ELECTRICITY; THERMODYNAMICS; WATER TRANSPORT;

BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; DIFFUSION; NANOSTRUCTURES; NANOTECHNOLOGY; PROTEINS; SILICON DIOXIDE; THERMODYNAMICS; WATER;

EID: 84898742388     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms4565     Document Type: Article

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