2015
DOI: 10.1038/nnano.2015.134
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Water transport inside carbon nanotubes mediated by phonon-induced oscillating friction

Abstract: The emergence of the field of nanofluidics in the last decade has led to the development of important applications including water desalination, ultrafiltration and osmotic energy conversion. Most applications make use of carbon nanotubes, boron nitride nanotubes, graphene and graphene oxide. In particular, understanding water transport in carbon nanotubes is key for designing ultrafiltration devices and energy-efficient water filters. However, although theoretical studies based on molecular dynamics simulatio… Show more

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“…2. (iii) Momentum transfer from the excited phonon modes of the CNTs to the fluid has been suggested to contribute to the larger flow rates of water in flexible CNTs. 41 The average water velocity, under an external acceleration of 4 × 10 11 m/ s 2 , is shown as a function of the tube diameter in Fig. 3(a).…”
Section: A Thermostatting Approachmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…2. (iii) Momentum transfer from the excited phonon modes of the CNTs to the fluid has been suggested to contribute to the larger flow rates of water in flexible CNTs. 41 The average water velocity, under an external acceleration of 4 × 10 11 m/ s 2 , is shown as a function of the tube diameter in Fig. 3(a).…”
Section: A Thermostatting Approachmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Once again there are many carbon potentials of varying levels of sophistication to choose from. We will not discuss the details of the carbon potentials here except to mention two very recent force field studies for water in CNTs and on graphene, which have shown that the motion of the water can couple to the phonon modes of the graphene sheet or carbon nanotube (141,142). This suggests that an accurate description of the phonon spectrum of the carbon material is a prerequisite for faithful predictions of water transport properties.…”
Section: Frontiers Of Simulation Studiesmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…In the past, the water transport properties have been studied extensively in singlewalled carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs) [8][9][10][11][12] . Novel studies on water transports in nanochannels have continued to appear in recent years with various designs concerning temperature gradients 13 , charge modification 14 , coulomb dragging 15 , collective mode oscillations 16 , and phononinduced frictions 17 . Besides the biological implications in these studies, the stream of these novel progresses may potentially become integrated into the application pool for the design of innovative nanofluidic devices, such as flow sensors 18 , desalination of seawater 19 , molecular sieves 20 , and so on.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%