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ArticleNature nanotechnology2018

Fast water transport in graphene nanofluidic channels.

Quan Xie, Mohammad Amin Alibakhshi, Shuping Jiao, Zhiping Xu, Marek Hempel, Jing Kong, Hyung Gyu Park, Chuanhua Duan

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Article in Nature nanotechnology, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 45 papers.

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8 authors.

Quan XieDepartment of Mechanical Engineering, Boston University, Boston, MA, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-4670-6899
Mohammad Amin AlibakhshiDepartment of Mechanical Engineering, Boston University, Boston, MA, USA.
Shuping JiaoDepartment of Engineering Mechanics and Center for Nano and Micro Mechanics, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China.
Zhiping XuDepartment of Engineering Mechanics and Center for Nano and Micro Mechanics, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China.
Marek HempelDepartment of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA.
Jing KongDepartment of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA.
Hyung Gyu ParkDepartment of Mechanical and Process Engineering, Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule (ETH) Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland.ORCID 0000-0001-8121-2344
Chuanhua DuanDepartment of Mechanical Engineering, Boston University, Boston, MA, USA. duan@bu.edu.ORCID 0000-0002-5453-5321

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Superfast water transport discovered in graphitic nanoconduits, including carbon nanotubes and graphene nanochannels, implicates crucial applications in separation processes and energy conversion. Yet lack of complete understanding at the single-conduit level limits development of new carbon nanofluidic structures and devices with desired transport properties for practical applications. Here, we show that the hydraulic resistance and slippage of single graphene nanochannels can be accurately determined using capillary flow and a novel hybrid nanochannel design without estimating the capillary pressure. Our results reveal that the slip length of graphene in the graphene nanochannels is around 16 nm, albeit with a large variation from 0 to 200 nm regardless of the channel height. We corroborate this finding with molecular dynamics simulation results, which indicate that this wide distribution of the slip length is due to the surface charge of graphene as well as the interaction between graphene and its silica substrate.

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