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- Title
Nanoscale hydrodynamics: enhanced flow in carbon nanotubes.
- Authors
Majumder, Mainak; Chopra, Nitin; Andrews, Rodney; Hinds, Bruce J
- Abstract
Nanoscale structures that could mimic the selective transport and extraordinarily fast flow possible in biological cellular channels would have a wide range of potential applications. Here we show that liquid flow through a membrane composed of an array of aligned carbon nanotubes is four to five orders of magnitude faster than would be predicted from conventional fluid-flow theory. This high fluid velocity results from an almost frictionless interface at the carbon-nanotube wall.
- Publication
Nature, 2005, Vol 438, Issue 7064, p44
- ISSN
1476-4687
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.1038/43844a