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ArticleNature communications2018

Unexpected behaviors in molecular transport through size-controlled nanochannels down to the ultra-nanoscale.

Giacomo Bruno, Nicola Di Trani, R Lyle Hood, Erika Zabre, Carly Sue Filgueira, Giancarlo Canavese, Priya Jain, Zachary Smith, Danilo Demarchi, Sharath Hosali and 3 more

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Article in Nature communications, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 29 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

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29 citing papers in PubMed.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

13 authors.

Giacomo BrunoDepartment of Nanomedicine, Houston Methodist Research Institute, Houston, TX, 77030, USA.
Nicola Di TraniDepartment of Nanomedicine, Houston Methodist Research Institute, Houston, TX, 77030, USA.
R Lyle HoodDepartment of Nanomedicine, Houston Methodist Research Institute, Houston, TX, 77030, USA.
Erika ZabreDepartment of Nanomedicine, Houston Methodist Research Institute, Houston, TX, 77030, USA.
Carly Sue FilgueiraDepartment of Nanomedicine, Houston Methodist Research Institute, Houston, TX, 77030, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3246-303X
Giancarlo CanaveseDepartment of Applied Science and Technology, Politecnico di Torino, 10024, Turin, Italy.
Priya JainDepartment of Nanomedicine, Houston Methodist Research Institute, Houston, TX, 77030, USA.
Zachary SmithDepartment of Nanomedicine, Houston Methodist Research Institute, Houston, TX, 77030, USA.
Danilo DemarchiDepartment of Electronics and Telecommunications, Politecnico di Torino, 10024, Turin, Italy.
Sharath HosaliNanoMedical Systems, Inc., Austin, TX, 78744, USA.
Alberto PimpinelliDepartment of Nanomedicine, Houston Methodist Research Institute, Houston, TX, 77030, USA.
Mauro FerrariDepartment of Nanomedicine, Houston Methodist Research Institute, Houston, TX, 77030, USA.
Alessandro GrattoniDepartment of Nanomedicine, Houston Methodist Research Institute, Houston, TX, 77030, USA. agrattoni@houstonmethodist.org.

Funding

A tunable delivery platform for in vivo investigation of therapeuticsR21GM111544 · NIGMS · METHODIST HOSPITAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE · PI GRATTONI, ALESSANDRO · 2014 to 2016
$598k
NIGMS NIH HHS R21 GM111544
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Ionic transport through nanofluidic systems is a problem of fundamental interest in transport physics and has broad relevance in desalination, fuel cells, batteries, filtration, and drug delivery. When the dimension of the fluidic system approaches the size of molecules in solution, fluid properties are not homogeneous and a departure in behavior is observed with respect to continuum-based theories. Here we present a systematic study of the transport of charged and neutral small molecules in an ideal nanofluidic platform with precise channels from the sub-microscale to the ultra-nanoscale (<5 nm). Surprisingly, we find that diffusive transport of nano-confined neutral molecules matches that of charged molecules, as though the former carry an effective charge. Further, approaching the ultra-nanoscale molecular diffusivities suddenly drop by up to an order of magnitude for all molecules, irrespective of their electric charge. New theoretical investigations will be required to shed light onto these intriguing results.

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HydrodynamicsDiffusionIonsNanostructuresNanotechnologyParticle SizeRheologySurface PropertiesIons

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PMID29703954
PMCPMC5923292

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